Paul Guinan
@paulguinan.bsky.social
Inkpot Award winner & two time Eisner nominee. Co-founder of the comic book studio, Helioscope. Creator of BOILERPLATE, DC's CHRONOS.
Read my AZTEC EMPIRE webcomic for FREE at BigRedHair.com
Read my AZTEC EMPIRE webcomic for FREE at BigRedHair.com
Broke my heart to not see you in this photo of your art at today’s opening of @nwmoca.bsky.social
Here’s the exclamatory recreation of the cover.
Get well immediately!
Here’s the exclamatory recreation of the cover.
Get well immediately!
November 4, 2025 at 5:27 AM
Broke my heart to not see you in this photo of your art at today’s opening of @nwmoca.bsky.social
Here’s the exclamatory recreation of the cover.
Get well immediately!
Here’s the exclamatory recreation of the cover.
Get well immediately!
#BatmanDay
I only draw the Silver Age version, and not the cruel and bloodied post-Miller versions.
How does somebody who has studied science, philosophy/psychology, and martial arts for decades, not become zen?
When Batman loses it, well, you’ve lost me.
I only draw the Silver Age version, and not the cruel and bloodied post-Miller versions.
How does somebody who has studied science, philosophy/psychology, and martial arts for decades, not become zen?
When Batman loses it, well, you’ve lost me.
September 21, 2025 at 3:14 AM
#BatmanDay
I only draw the Silver Age version, and not the cruel and bloodied post-Miller versions.
How does somebody who has studied science, philosophy/psychology, and martial arts for decades, not become zen?
When Batman loses it, well, you’ve lost me.
I only draw the Silver Age version, and not the cruel and bloodied post-Miller versions.
How does somebody who has studied science, philosophy/psychology, and martial arts for decades, not become zen?
When Batman loses it, well, you’ve lost me.
#RoseCityComicCon, here’s our webcomic about how strangers from another world changed the Americas, and how a teenage girl was key to toppling the AZTEC EMPIRE.
Read for FREE: BigRedHair.com #RCCC
Read for FREE: BigRedHair.com #RCCC
September 7, 2025 at 11:49 PM
#RoseCityComicCon, here’s our webcomic about how strangers from another world changed the Americas, and how a teenage girl was key to toppling the AZTEC EMPIRE.
Read for FREE: BigRedHair.com #RCCC
Read for FREE: BigRedHair.com #RCCC
The Ancients: @scottmccloud.bsky.social, @paulguinan.bsky.social, @davidfwalker.bsky.social, @jeffparker.bsky.social, @stevelieberart.bsky.social, today at @helioscopepdx.bsky.social
September 4, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The robot, Boilerplate, with the 10th Cavalry. The Buffalo Soldiers.
#BuffaloSoldiersDay
#BuffaloSoldiersDay
July 28, 2025 at 10:00 PM
The robot, Boilerplate, with the 10th Cavalry. The Buffalo Soldiers.
#BuffaloSoldiersDay
#BuffaloSoldiersDay
Congratulations to all the recipients at last night's #EisnerAwards !!! #SDCC Our series AZTEC EMPIRE was once honored with a nomination for Best Digital Comic. Read it for free on our BigRedHair website.
July 26, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Congratulations to all the recipients at last night's #EisnerAwards !!! #SDCC Our series AZTEC EMPIRE was once honored with a nomination for Best Digital Comic. Read it for free on our BigRedHair website.
2/2 It's a fundraiser for Hero Initiative. DC created blank-cover editions of Superman #6 and the Hero Initiative got 100 artists to do original drawings on the covers. They were collected into soft and hardbound editions.
More info & schedule: www.ilikecomicsshop.com/events
More info & schedule: www.ilikecomicsshop.com/events
July 11, 2025 at 10:21 PM
2/2 It's a fundraiser for Hero Initiative. DC created blank-cover editions of Superman #6 and the Hero Initiative got 100 artists to do original drawings on the covers. They were collected into soft and hardbound editions.
More info & schedule: www.ilikecomicsshop.com/events
More info & schedule: www.ilikecomicsshop.com/events
Come see a rare sighting of me this weekend at I Like Comics in Vancouver, WA. They’re having a SUPERMAN 100 PROJECT signing this Saturday, July 12, from 10am-4pm. All Helioscope creators who contributed to the book will be there! 1/2
July 11, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Come see a rare sighting of me this weekend at I Like Comics in Vancouver, WA. They’re having a SUPERMAN 100 PROJECT signing this Saturday, July 12, from 10am-4pm. All Helioscope creators who contributed to the book will be there! 1/2
My robot, Boilerplate, was once featured on the masthead of the Portland Tribune.
That masthead makes an appearance on the OPB website for a story about the Tribune discontinuing print editions. www.opb.org/article/2025/06/25/portland-tribune-stop-publishing-print-edition-carpenter-media-news-cuts/
That masthead makes an appearance on the OPB website for a story about the Tribune discontinuing print editions. www.opb.org/article/2025/06/25/portland-tribune-stop-publishing-print-edition-carpenter-media-news-cuts/
June 30, 2025 at 7:56 PM
My robot, Boilerplate, was once featured on the masthead of the Portland Tribune.
That masthead makes an appearance on the OPB website for a story about the Tribune discontinuing print editions. www.opb.org/article/2025/06/25/portland-tribune-stop-publishing-print-edition-carpenter-media-news-cuts/
That masthead makes an appearance on the OPB website for a story about the Tribune discontinuing print editions. www.opb.org/article/2025/06/25/portland-tribune-stop-publishing-print-edition-carpenter-media-news-cuts/
Thanks so much, Deniz! That series was the first time in comics that I got to explore my interest in Aztecs:
June 1, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Thanks so much, Deniz! That series was the first time in comics that I got to explore my interest in Aztecs:
Honored to be an inspiration for depicting a Mexica warrior in comics.
Codex Mendoza informed me, but I added my own helmet designs that became an inadvertent tag to follow any wandering. Look where it wound up! The cover for Assorted Crisis Events #4.
Codex Mendoza informed me, but I added my own helmet designs that became an inadvertent tag to follow any wandering. Look where it wound up! The cover for Assorted Crisis Events #4.
May 31, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Honored to be an inspiration for depicting a Mexica warrior in comics.
Codex Mendoza informed me, but I added my own helmet designs that became an inadvertent tag to follow any wandering. Look where it wound up! The cover for Assorted Crisis Events #4.
Codex Mendoza informed me, but I added my own helmet designs that became an inadvertent tag to follow any wandering. Look where it wound up! The cover for Assorted Crisis Events #4.
NEW PAGE 100!!!
Episode Ten is complete!
Read it, and previous episodes, on our BigRedHair site and support our series on Patreon. Thanks!
Episode Ten is complete!
Read it, and previous episodes, on our BigRedHair site and support our series on Patreon. Thanks!
May 18, 2025 at 9:06 PM
NEW PAGE 100!!!
Episode Ten is complete!
Read it, and previous episodes, on our BigRedHair site and support our series on Patreon. Thanks!
Episode Ten is complete!
Read it, and previous episodes, on our BigRedHair site and support our series on Patreon. Thanks!
New page coming this weekend!
#webcomics
#webcomics
May 16, 2025 at 8:34 PM
New page coming this weekend!
#webcomics
#webcomics
#WebcomicDay
AZTEC EMPIRE is a series about a unique event in human history, an alien First Contact epic that actually happened!
The true story of how a teenage girl was key to toppling the mightiest empire in Mesoamerica.
Read for FREE at BigRedHair.com & support us on Patreon. Thanks!
AZTEC EMPIRE is a series about a unique event in human history, an alien First Contact epic that actually happened!
The true story of how a teenage girl was key to toppling the mightiest empire in Mesoamerica.
Read for FREE at BigRedHair.com & support us on Patreon. Thanks!
May 12, 2025 at 9:26 PM
#WebcomicDay
AZTEC EMPIRE is a series about a unique event in human history, an alien First Contact epic that actually happened!
The true story of how a teenage girl was key to toppling the mightiest empire in Mesoamerica.
Read for FREE at BigRedHair.com & support us on Patreon. Thanks!
AZTEC EMPIRE is a series about a unique event in human history, an alien First Contact epic that actually happened!
The true story of how a teenage girl was key to toppling the mightiest empire in Mesoamerica.
Read for FREE at BigRedHair.com & support us on Patreon. Thanks!
The Council of Four was an advisory group to Motecuhzoma. They go unnamed and almost always unmentioned in modern history books.
Their outfits, titles, and names come from the 1541 Codex Mendoza.
#CodexToComics
Their outfits, titles, and names come from the 1541 Codex Mendoza.
#CodexToComics
May 7, 2025 at 12:23 AM
The Council of Four was an advisory group to Motecuhzoma. They go unnamed and almost always unmentioned in modern history books.
Their outfits, titles, and names come from the 1541 Codex Mendoza.
#CodexToComics
Their outfits, titles, and names come from the 1541 Codex Mendoza.
#CodexToComics
506 years ago TODAY: The Council Four discuss the strangers from another world. What kind of people are they, and how should they be dealt with?
Page 77 of our series:
Page 77 of our series:
May 7, 2025 at 12:21 AM
506 years ago TODAY: The Council Four discuss the strangers from another world. What kind of people are they, and how should they be dealt with?
Page 77 of our series:
Page 77 of our series:
This sequence from page 76 is based a section in the Florentine Codex. Here's the text to compare with our adaptation:
May 6, 2025 at 12:19 AM
This sequence from page 76 is based a section in the Florentine Codex. Here's the text to compare with our adaptation:
506 years ago this week: The Mexica ambassador hurries to Tenochtitlan to make his report to Motecuhzoma about the dangers of the strangers on the coast.
Page 76 (one of my favorites) of our series:
Page 76 (one of my favorites) of our series:
May 6, 2025 at 12:19 AM
506 years ago this week: The Mexica ambassador hurries to Tenochtitlan to make his report to Motecuhzoma about the dangers of the strangers on the coast.
Page 76 (one of my favorites) of our series:
Page 76 (one of my favorites) of our series:
More information about these impressive works of art can be found on my blog post, "The Gold Sun and the Silver Moon." bigredhair.com/blog/the-gold-sun-and-the-silver-moon/
May 4, 2025 at 10:13 PM
More information about these impressive works of art can be found on my blog post, "The Gold Sun and the Silver Moon." bigredhair.com/blog/the-gold-sun-and-the-silver-moon/
506 years ago this week: Mexica welcome the newly arrived Spaniards with extravagant gifts, among them are massive silver and gold discs representing the moon and the sun.
Page 73 of our series:
Page 73 of our series:
May 4, 2025 at 10:11 PM
506 years ago this week: Mexica welcome the newly arrived Spaniards with extravagant gifts, among them are massive silver and gold discs representing the moon and the sun.
Page 73 of our series:
Page 73 of our series:
One of my favorite Nick Cardy covers is also my favorite all-time comic, with interiors drawn by Jerry Grandenetti.
May 4, 2025 at 6:26 AM
One of my favorite Nick Cardy covers is also my favorite all-time comic, with interiors drawn by Jerry Grandenetti.
506 years ago this week:
A Mexica spy ring is embedded in the Spanish camp. Messengers are being sent daily to Tenochtitlan, keeping Motecuhzoma informed about the strangers' every move.
Page 71 of our series:
A Mexica spy ring is embedded in the Spanish camp. Messengers are being sent daily to Tenochtitlan, keeping Motecuhzoma informed about the strangers' every move.
Page 71 of our series:
May 2, 2025 at 9:58 PM
506 years ago this week:
A Mexica spy ring is embedded in the Spanish camp. Messengers are being sent daily to Tenochtitlan, keeping Motecuhzoma informed about the strangers' every move.
Page 71 of our series:
A Mexica spy ring is embedded in the Spanish camp. Messengers are being sent daily to Tenochtitlan, keeping Motecuhzoma informed about the strangers' every move.
Page 71 of our series:
506 years ago this week: the Totonac, vassals of the Aztec Empire, discuss what to do about the newly arrived strangers on their coast.
Page 70 of our series:
Page 70 of our series:
May 1, 2025 at 10:09 PM
506 years ago this week: the Totonac, vassals of the Aztec Empire, discuss what to do about the newly arrived strangers on their coast.
Page 70 of our series:
Page 70 of our series: