Jared Cullum

A Link to the Past

NYCC! Don’t sleep on getting your copy of the ashcan book for Usagi Yomjimbo: kaitō ‘84 at the Walmart booth. The legend, Stan Sakai will be signing copies at 1!
The signing will be followed by a live online sketch session at 2:00. Here is the link: www.walmart.com/live/shows?v...

Big news for NYCC! My pub & Walmart put out an exclusive look at the new series Usagi Yojimbo: Kaitō ‘84 w/ an ashcan showing some pages, process and a sneakpeak at character models. Stop by the Walmart booth and grab a copy! Saturday the legend, Stan Sakai will be signing them!

NYC, 47th & broadway. Gouache painting of an ice cream truck - wish I could be there this week for NyCC! Have a great show, everyone!

Demos from a gouache found object sketching class I taught tonight! Light and planes- big~>small

Painting the first issue of Usagi Yojimbo: Kaitō ‘84. Coming along!

The next installment in my TMNT holidays cover series. These were so fun to paint.

Thank you!

Haha

Gouache of my wife’s boots in the garden

Part 2 of a 4 part holiday cover series I did for TMNT- Thanksgiving parade with they guys. 🦃 @idwpublishing.com

Happy this painting found a home! It was fun to paint. 16”x22” Usagi Yojimbo and an underwater Yokai castle

Sketchbook page - I have been collecting sketches and ideas for this series for the past 9 months. I look forward to sharing parts of it (as long as I don’t spoil story) and process 🤫

Can finally share about this! I did a variant cover for @idwpublishing.com Godzilla! So much fun!

Goodness, thank you

One big, one small and one just right. Actually they were all huge. 3 bear watercolor sketches from the San Diego Zoo

Back home from SDCC! Still reeling from this weekend. What a whirlwind. Thank you all for the encouragement and excitement about the new Usagi series. @comicnerd1988.bsky.social and I have been working so hard on this and I look forward to sharing process and all about it over the next year.

Windansea beach, San Diego

Get ready for the #TeeangeMutantNinjaTurtlesAnnual2025!

The #TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles are back together but Donnie is still struggling.

From Kenny Porter & Michael Shelfer!

A: Mateus Santolouco
B: @sergacuna.bsky.social
RI25: @michaelshelfer.bsky.social
Variant: @jaredcullum.bsky.social

I recently did a variant cover series for TMNT @idwpublishing.com - this is the first which is coming out soon. More on the other 3 will be coming soon! :) 🐢 ⚔️

Shell Beach, San Diego - watercolor in toned sketchbook

Waiting to board our flight for SDCC!

Experimenting in my sketchbook for warm up with a different shape application method for transparent watercolor

I painted an SDCC exclusive cover for @patrickhorvath.bsky.social for @idwpublishing.com - Super fun and an honor to paint it.

San Diego Comic-Con schedule for Patrick Horvath. Thursday 7/24: 1:30pm - 3pm general signing at booth 4401, 3:30pm - 4:30pm IDW signing at booth 2729. Friday 7/25: 10am - 11am IDW signing at booth 2729, 11am - 12pm Oni Press signing at booth 1829, 2pm - 4pm general signing at booth 4401. Saturday 7/26: 11am - 12pm Oni Press signing at booth 1829, 2pm - 3pm Panel: IDW Dark in room 4, 4pm - 5pm IDW signing at booth 2729.

Cover for the IDW SDCC exclusive Jared Cullem variant for issue 1 of Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees: Rite of Spring. It features Samantha working her ass off at the con, signing copies of the book and thanking our supporters profusely while I sit next to her wondering if she's murdered anyone yet.

Here's my schedule for SDCC this year. I'll be signing at a couple of tables and doing a panel on Saturday. Highly recommend searching out the BTTWNS Rite of Spring exclusive at @idwpublishing.com by the powerhouse @jaredcullum.bsky.social

Stop by and say hi :)

I’ve got something big to share! This is my first year attending San Diego Comic Con! Also doing a panel. Join me and my friend @comicnerd1988.bsky.social as we sit with the absolutely legend, Stan Sakai to discuss all things Usagi Yojimbo, its impact on our work and MUCH more… Saturday (26th) 10a

Demo for this months Patreon of a neat building I saw walking around Pasadena, CA 22”x16” watercolor

Sketching at my neighborhood farmers market

Rock and leaf studies with watercolor in the botanical gardens today. Nice to break from doomscrolling and screens and just draw rocks for a bit.

Heroes sketchbook commission of Porco Rosso’s plane. Incidentally my favorite film.