Signing @ 99 Issues in Mobile, AL - March 1!

I'm happy to announce that I'll be signing and sketching at 99 Issues Comics & Gaming in Mobile, Alabama, for their one-year anniversary on March 1! It should be a fun time.

I'll be there with Steve Scott (X-men Forever, Wolverine, JLA, Batman), Steven Butler (Spider-man, Silver Sable, Archie, Sonic the Hedgehog), and maybe some others that haven't been announced yet. 

Steven Butler was one of my childhood heroes. He used to work out of Hattiesburg (very close to my hometown), and I've still got a newspaper article that featured him from when I was about 10 or 11. I must have read that article a 1000 times back then. 

Anyway, I'm looking forward to it! Mark your calendars. Let me know if you'll be coming!

How I Color Comics: The Basics, Part 2

My second in a series geared more towards the beginner. Watch Part 1 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wpc-ttVsOXg If you are interested in one-on-one online training sessions, please leave a comment or find me on any of the links below. As of now, I'm considering them for $50 for a one-hour session.

In this video, I discuss how to tie your scenes together with colored lighting and "Color" layer types. 

Free Comic Book Day 2014

I'm happy to announce that I've been asked to make an appearance as a guest at 3 Alarm Comics in Biloxi for Free Comic Book day 2014! I'll have some prints and books available, and I'm looking forwardto it! More details to come.

New site launch!

Hi there! I just wanted to welcome everyone to the new site comiccolor.com. It's so much easier to say than michruss.com!

This is something I've been wanting to do for a while. I've been spread out all over the web but didn't really have a central repository like I wanted. I had a credits page at Tumblr, a gallery over at dA, videos on YouTube, and bloggish posts at Facebook. I'll still maintain those pages, but now it will all be in one place as well. 

So it's 2014, what's going on?  I'm coloring a story called "The Body" for the In The Dark anthology created by Rachel Deering (Creepy, Diablo III, Anthema). It's written by Tim Seeley (Hack/Slash, Revival, The Occultist) and drawn by Stephen Green (Hellboy, Dr. Who, October Girl). 

I've got a few more pages of Murder Culture to finish for the Imaginary Drugs anthology created by Michael McDermott (FUBAR). It's Jonathan Brandon Sawyer (FUBAR, In The Dark) on pencils there. I'm predicting he "goes pro" in 2014. You heard it here first. I just finished a pinup with Valentin Ramos Menendez (D4ve, The Blackstone Chronicles) for that book as well. Check it out here. There's one more story for ID that hasn't been announced yet. 

Teddy and the Yeti #5 is floating around with writer Jeff McClelland (FUBAR, The Tick, Hawken, Sasquatch) and Duane Redhead (The Tick, 2000AD, Sasquatch). They're busy with a The Tick Free Comic Book Day comic!

Liberator Vol 1 TPB, created by Matt Miner, was just made available for pre-order in Previews (JAN 140975). I did a four-pager with story and art by Tim Seeley. 

I think that's it! I'll update again soon, and I'll show whatever art I can.