Dave Davenport (dogspunk)

Loose pg.39 sneak peek the second

I will refrain from describing what is going on here to preserve any sense of tension and mystery, lol.

August I will be finishing up the original art rewards for the kickstarter and posting them here. Also another sticker, and after this page of Loose, back to Dinosaurs for a few months.

Oh, San Diego Comic-con was fun, but we honestly get so little out of it compared to a decade ago… we are considering just not doing it anymore. William is always invited to do panels, which ...

BANG! thumbnails

This is from about 10 years ago or so. There’s a Portuguese artist that goes by HvH, at least he used to. You can google HvH erotic comics and some of his work will come up, but all the results are from 10 years or more ago. I had been in touch with him because I got him to do some artwork for the 2013 Bent Con, we used his artwork for the cover of the convention guide. He asked me after that if I would be interested in working on a story with him, part of an anthology series that he wanted...

Welcome, Max!

Here’s a welcome sketch for Max! Max requested a version of something I had drawn before, 20 years ago, which was in a sticker set nit long ago. I used different reference photos for James Roscoe than I did then, he’s a bit older and I used his mohawk as he had in some videos he was in.

Welcome, Max! I hope you like.

Loose pg.39 sneak peek

5000 quatloos if you recognize the throne…

Also, who knows what the red ropes could be for?

Loose pg.38

Part 3 page 8!

I managed to squeeze 3 patrons into this one, Michael from Australia, and Ken and Austyn. I hope Michael doesn’t mind playing Mitch’s instrument.

I’ll be working on page 39 next, and a welcome sketch! San Diego Comicon is next weekend, too, and we’ll be there! William is on 2 panels and I will be carrying his bag! William is a great public speaker and I am the opposite, so I am more than happy to be cheering him on from the audience.

Next month I wil...

Goin to a gogo nanananaheyhey

Loose pg. 38 sneak peek the sequel! Obviously a fun panel to draw. I learned the difference between a biwa and a shamisen. In an early version of the script the band is akin to Envy. Click here if you wanna hear some. This band in the comic has the energy but different instruments, obvs.

Loose pg.38 sneak peek

I would say that Mitch has waited his whole life to be Bugs Bunny but his life ended some time ago.

Also, hello, Ken! More of you to come.

Fuck Your Shit/July 2024 sticker

This current set may probably be designs I have wanted to make stickers of that haven’t fit in a set yet. This design is from a year ago, a request from a fan of the Godzilla “Fuck This Shit” design to have a companion MechaGodzilla design. I set this aside feeling it needed something more, but when I looked at it again yesterday I decided it was in fact done, lol. I had played a lot with various queer color schemes, because of MG’s rainbow eyebeams, but opted ultimately for this one....

Loose pg.37

Or part 3, page 7.

I think panel 2 looks most like Austyn.

Lustmord is a dark ambient artist best known for his hellish soundscapes and a bleating singular horn in particular. If you’ve seen the Void, or First Reformed, you’ve heard some Lustmord. Here’s his seminal album Heresy on youtube.

On to some shindig or somethin!

Loose pg.37 preview 2

I’m going to have to do something with Mitch’s growing flier collection.

Hot List 2005 for OUT magazine

Hey I was digging through back up files and came across this, my first illustration job for a major queer magazine. This was to illuminate the “what’s hot” summer list that year, and the art director had liked my comicbook work that I was doing in adobe illustrator at that time, specifically the Grey Otter, and the texture of the original piece of Feral digging up/fucking the Ghost Skater’s corpse… which is why the guy driving the buggy resemble the Grey Otter and the two main figur...

Loose pg.37 sneak peek

Yes I did use photo reference of Austyn’s ass for this. Lots of butt shots this chapter… I need a name for this character.

Stickers are back from the printer and will be going out soon, and I have begun packing up and shipping out kickstarter books, though that will be a little at a time, throughout July.

Loose pg.36

Part 3, page 6. Probably the most black on one page I have done!

I originally had this without narrative boxes, but felt it could be misread as just exhaustion instead of a supernatural atmosphere, so I added the descriptions. Both are true. Feral may be instinctively escaping into a den, but it is a tunnel to places the living can’t tread.

Repost—Who could have known?

I don’t repost too often, but since A. Wolf is in the news today… I think it’s hilarious that I am seeing two deflective reactions: 1) who could have known? How are we supposed to know what dark secrets our peers and coworkers are hiding? and 2) y’all acting like you knew he was shit are performative.

All you had to do was not ignore him when he told us he’s an immoral predator. It’s also really easy to research such things these days. People willingly letting evil slide be...

Wallpaper/reading order/timeline

Hey, hey!

I finished this collage of heads to use as the background on info fliers going in with kickstarter shipments. The Timeline/checklist one is a bit much/confusing, but I always wanted to bang this out. I will use image this for other things as well… I was thinking the three mains might make a good shirt design… maybe with the finger necklace in there, too. I don’t want to do any kickstarter fatigue, but maybe a low-fanfare campaign that just does shirt pre-orders? It’s ...

Loose pg.36 sneak peek 2

Part 3, page 6.

Hey look, I told you Issue 3 is gonna be mostly Ghost Skater!

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Some news on that Food anthology: we (the contributors) didn’t get a whiff of the bad terms of the contract until having to sign off on rights as we turned in some of the work. I asked questions and found the terms unreasonable, and have made a counter offer which I don’t expect to be accepted, so I have effectively left that project. The piece I had written was/is the most personal...

Loose pg.36 sneak peek

Pt.3, pg.6. Into the void…

“Draw You In” updates/opportunities

Hey y’all!

Here’s a current map/list of opportunities for you to appear in my comic. I know I had made great fanfare about the party in Damaged II at the end of the Stray Bullet story (I was referring to it as “a date with a werewolf”), but as I was working those details out I realized that there are a number of other options along the way, and skipping to the epilogue was going to be way too confusing and complicated.

A lot of these opportunities would mean y’all are be...

Illustration w.i.p.

Thanks for the birthday wishes! Q-con was a success, though I did miss my booth bae who was on a family trip. I think it was my first convention without William in a dozen years.

I mentioned before that I am doing a comic for a food-themed anthology. This book has chapters devoted to sub-themes, and each of those chapters includes the aforementioned comic, a recipe by a professional chef, and an illustration of the recipe (art by the comicbook artist of that chapter). This is a prelimin...

Fire in the Rain sticker set

These should be back from the sticker printer before the end of the month. I am already thinking about the next set… i came across some art for a t-shirt design I did for The Wrong Element about 20 years ago, and will probably do a set based around that. I had thought the original file for the art lost, but it was hidden on a backup drive!

Tomorrow is Q-con in West Hollywood! Come say hello, it’s free. You can even tell me Happy Birthday, if you like (it is my birthday t...

Loose pt.3, pg.5

So this would be, what… page 35? 37 if you count the intro.

A bit quieter of a page. I enjoy drawing this environment, and want it to be drab and dreary, but hey it looks drab and dreary 😂.

These little Gollum lookin guys are called Gaki, hungry spirits that wander limbo. They are usually depicted a little larger, but I wanted to play with size in the opposite direction from the Oni of the previous 7 pages.

Loose pt.3, pg.5 preview 2

I have these pages saved as just page numbers without the “parts” and always have to figure which page of the part it is for these posts, like this is page 35 (not counting intro pages) and I translate that to pt.3, pg.5. Maybe I will just start going with the 35?

It’s been a busy week since the last preview panel. Kickstarter stuff, Q-con stuff, et.al.. I will have a full page for y’all by the weekend!

Velvet Collar Bonus pg.2

Hey it’s the last of the VC pages! I enjoyed these bonus pages.

I could maybe post links to reviews? Y’all interested in that?

I did most of the art chores on issue 2, but parted ways with the project before it came out. Maybe I will share the pages as I had them someday, but this is it for now!

Wall o’ heads/reading order

This is the sort of thing I am going to include with books, and a version to follow that includes all stories (including characters from Hard to Swallow stories). This is going to just be a jpg with the digital books, but a xerox with physical, and web versions for the websites. Probably a checklist on the back of the xerox.

Digital kickstarter rewards are going out today, btw.

Wallpaper WIP

I’m in the middle of this illustration of all if the characters in Feral and the Ghost Skater! I have wanted to do this for a while, it will have many uses… but I am doing it now to use with presenting the delivery of comics from the kickstarter, the digital copies are ready to go and are waiting on my completing at least part of this! 😅

I’m enjoying this so far, though Jayson looks a bit weird and I will probably redraw his head. It’s fun revisiting characters I haven’t dr...

Velvet Collar Bonus pg.1

One of the 2 pages added as a stretch goal. These gave Billy some more needed page time. It also features some backers to the campaign, drawn in as passengers!

I had planned on some new content today, but these past few days have truly been computer hell. My desktop that had already made a few return trips from the pet semetary let out a death scream and I think it’s done for good… I just can’t seem to get a pulse with this one… just as I was trying to get ...

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So these arrived yesterday!

Premiering the book at Q-Con on June 15th!

Digital copies will go out to backers on June 1st, and I’ll be getting the physical copies ready to ship out after Q-con.

I’m working on a new “meet the artist” thing since my old one is very outdated. I want to use the self-portrait part for promo for Q-con. I am not sure why they used this Tannis promo instead of myself in this po...

Loose pt.3, pg.5 sneak peek

A slight change in environment and atmosphere…

I’ve mentioned this before, but Loose’s structure works well with my ADHD, lol.

Velvet Collar #1 Promotional/Kickstarter

Some stuff I did for promotion and the Kickstarter of the book. The Kickstarter was a big success, and as a stretch goal 2 new pages were added to the story. Those will be the next Velvet Collar archive posts!

News on the Stray Bullet 2 kickstarter: the stickers are back, and the books are on their way to me from the printer as I type this. I’ll be making/sending out the digital copies in June, and begin sending physical copies after Qcon (June 15).

Loose pt.3, pg.4

Hey get your nut sack snatchers here!

I enjoy drawing a sexy Oni. I may have to do some pin-ups of them… maybe green and red having some sexy times while littlest spys on them. Hmmm…

Thanks to the Oni themed birthday present from Michael! I love it. And the Sadako and Carrie rubber ducks are amazing. Best birthday present in a while.