Hey guys! Street Fighter: World Warrior Encyclopedia from UDON is in stores now! I had the please of researching and writing this book, as well as doing all the design and layout. If you love Street Fighter, or even for SF noobs, the book is a great guide to the history and characters of this really unique universe. I appeciate the support of any of you who pick this up, lets sell it out and make it go to a second printing!

You can find the book in most comic shops, or order it for just $9.44 on amazon.com!

STREET FIGHTER WORLD WARRIOR ENCYCLOPEDIA

“Enter the world of Street Fighter, where fighters of every size, shape, and color collide in a global battle for supremacy. Combatants fight for reasons as diverse as their nationalities, each which their own unique moves and fighting style. Now you can learn the whole story behind the world’s greatest fighters in The Street Fighter World Warrior Encyclopedia! Inside you will find detailed profiles of every Street Fighter character, including their histories, strengths, allies, enemies, and more! Each profile is accompanied by pulse-pounding artwork by top UDON artists.”

Order Street Fighter: World Warrior Encyclopedia from Amazon.com!
Read a great review of the book from destructoid.com

I recently received some new Plushformers from the awesome SuzyWong.

Soundwave and Ratbat are joined by Ratchet and Blaster…it’s a party now! Here they are hanging out on the guest room futon:

Hey gang!

Don’t forget, I’ll have a Lil Formers table set up this weekend at TFcon in Toronto Canada, July 17-18th. Find all the info at TFcon.ca.

I’ll be selling prints (included TF Animated and G1 Battle scene, never before sold at a TFcon), selling buttons(news! some that were not even sold at Botcon!) and ove course doing commission sketches!

Also, that Night-bird figure the con has produced is pretty kickin’, check it out:

You know you’ve made it once you’ve been pirated in China.

I’ve had artwork stolen before, by general DA art thieves and even some business websites. But check this out - Lil Formers art on a Chinese bootleg Transformer! Awesome! haha. It’s useless to get mad about this, since there’s really no way to fight Chinese bootlegging. So just gotta laugh about it. Here are pics of the toy and the original art:

While the character isn’t the same (this is fan art of a non-TF character named Cougar) at least the vehicle modes match up(Jeep).

I did actually order one from KO toys , but a word of warning about them - If you are a MOC(mint on card) collector, don’t go near these guys. I guess they figure nobody would ever care about a knockoff packaging being in good shape. In the toy I ordered, they actually FOLDED THE CARDBOARD FLAP IN HALF to fit in int he box they chose. So my art was all crumpled up…oh well! Learned never to buy from them again heh.

So I did an interview in the most recent issue of ImagineFX, which for anyone who doesn’t know is the premiere fantasy and sci-fi digital art magazine. This issue profiled the UDON studio, so as managing editor I got to say plenty.

Here’s a little more detailed write up I did for the UDON Blog:

Issue #58 of ImagineFX magazine has been available in the UK for a few weeks, but has just now hit North American shelves. This issue of the ultimate fantasy and sci-fi art magazine profiles the UDON crew, talking about the studio’s 10th anniversary, working as a creative services house, the ins and outs of publishing, and more. Managing editor Matt Moylan, project manager Jim Zubkavich, and artists Omar Dogan and Jeffrey “Chamba” Cruz all give their thoughts about UDON in the article.

Also in this issue:
-UDON artist and regular ImagineFX contributor Saejin Oh provides a detailed worksop lesson
-UDONer Jeffrey Cruz gives an interview about manga
-Darkstalkers and Street Fighter Tribute contributor (and Darkstalkers Vol.2 cover artist) Warren Louw gets profiled as this issue’s “Artist in Residence”
-UDON artist Gonzalo Ordonez Arias gets tagged in this issue’s deviantwatch list

Read more about the issue here: ImagineFX #58

As many of you know, my real job is to be Managing Editor of UDON Entertainment’s publishing line. If you’re new we publish Street Fighter comics, video game art books, translated manga and work all over the entertainment industry.

2010 marks UDON’s 10’s anniversary, so we’re coming out with our very own anthology/tutorial/art book - VENT! IF you knwo our other books, it’s a lot like our own version of Asian anthologies ROBOT or APPLE. The book features dozens of UDON artists providing original pinups, stories, and detailed art tutorials. I myseld did a new pinup and a tutorial (oh and also layed out the whole book!)

Here is the book cover, and some samples of my section:

The 248-page book goes on sale Sep 15th 2010, but will be premiering before then with a  special hardcover edition at the San Diego Comic-con (which is very soon!). Read the full details about the book and see a bunch more previews on the UDON blog.

Also you can pre-order the book now from amazon.com for only $26.39 (retail $39.99!)

A great time was had by all at Botcon this year! Some highlights:

- The Lil Formers booth. We sold many Lil Formers buttons… that was a good idea!

- Lil Formers/Plushformers cosplayer! Wow!

- I sat in on a podcast with the WTF@TFW gang. Check it out here.

- Activision’s War for Cybertron game was so good I went out and bought it… but man is it hard!

- Met lots of new transfans, and got to catch up with some who I have met before…good to see everybody!

I also did over 40 commission sketches over the weekend! Phew! A bit of everything - G1, Energon, Cybertron, Beast Wars, G2, Victory, IDW, Animated, and more. Though not one request for Optimus or Megatron (But I did sell a pre-made Optimus I drew as a warm up). Here are the ones we remembered to take pictures of:

Just reminding everyone that I’ll be at BOTCON 2010, this coming weekend in Orlando Florida!

I’ll once again have an artist table set up in the dealer room (hopefully near my buddy Alex Milne). I’ll be selling all kinds of Lil Formers swag like:

Lil Formers 11×17 prints:
- Lil Formers Battle Scene (all new, never before sold!)
- Lil Formers TF Animated
- Lil Formers: Generation 1
- Lil Formers: The Movie

I’ll also have 8.5×11 prints of many popular Lil Formers strips. (If you’re hoping I’ll bring a certain strip, leave a comment!)

Plus new this year - Lil Formers Buttons! (15 to choose from!)

I’ll also of course be doing Black & White Sketches or Full Colour Sketches - this year on official Lil Formers signing boards! Fancy!

So come on down to the show, wear your Lil Formers T-shirts, bring your SuzyWong plushies, and just have an all around fun time! See you there!

PS: If you watch a sketch at the show  and want to pre-pay to be first in the queue, give me a shout at matt@mattmoylan.com and we can work it out on Paypal.

Well today is my birthday, and I even get a three day weekend! Actually I get one every year…May 24th is Victoria Day in Canada, so there is always a holiday weekend near it. It’s also known as the May two-four weekend(as in a 24 case of beer).

My girlfriend made me this awesome Mushroom Kingdom cake. And it tasted pretty good too! It may look small in this pic because of the unusual plate, but it’s a decent size. Six of us didn’t even eat half of it!

Also she go me the new DS XL I’ve been eyeing  to replace my falling apart DS Lite. Woot!

Intrepid reader Robert K. recently came across this image on tumbler. Neat! No idea who these people are so not sure if the legs belong to two BFFs or a couple, or one really flexible girl. If you are one of these people, let me know!

On a similar subject, I also did some commission art for David S. about a year ago of mariokarters, though he only ever showed me a small jpeg of the first stage black outlines:

I have done a few other tattoo designs over the years, but rarely get to see the results. If you’ve got a Lil Formers tattoo let me know!