HackArtober #8 (Scanned From The Grave)
Just in time for the 8th.
Bad day, some sad news.
Art is therapy, even simple nonsense sketches.
2021-10-09 03:52:02 +0000 UTC View Post
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Then & Now: Flashback From 11/19/04 (LiveJournal Entry)
I always meant to toss some old, complete LiveJournal entries here, not just to have some extra content but as an experiment in contrast and compare. Things that have changed from then-to-now (the child we were awaiting is now approaching 17, MAD is more-or-less gone as a market for freelancers, Nick Magazine is gone, I don't review the comics I read anymore -- hell, I'm not posting to LiveJournal anymore) and some things that will likely never change (anxiety, worrying about work, taking...
2021-10-07 23:00:47 +0000 UTC View PostHackArtober #7 (Scanned Despite Technical Problems. Fee Fie Foe Fum.)
Deep cut.
2021-10-07 21:02:36 +0000 UTC View PostHackArtober #6 (Scanned Uglier Than Darryl Revok)
This was supposed to be a real cheat, drawing Michael in the sheet. It too me four attempts before I gave up on this one as sufficient for the bit.
The Night He Came Home...And Had To Be Drawn Four Times.
Very scary.
2021-10-06 09:40:38 +0000 UTC View PostHackArtober #5 (Properly Scanned for Patreon People)
Wanted to go a little bit off the beaten Halloween track for this one.
My ankle is twinging for some reason.
HackArtober #4 (Scanned, With Bonus Rambling Essay)
I don't really like Freddy Krueger much, to be honest. I know that puts me at the kid's table at the Horror Fan Ice Cream Social next year, but he's never done much for me. I'm just saying. Visually, he's kind of goofy-looking with the shiny rubber pizza-pie face, and the hat and sweater are like the thrift store crap they don't bring into the store if it falls outside the donation boxes. I assume they showed Freddy in a sequel flashback all normal and Englund-looking and we...
2021-10-04 09:14:14 +0000 UTC View Post
HackArtober #2 (As Always, Scanned With Love)
Queen. Prom Queen.
2021-10-02 10:12:54 +0000 UTC View Post
On Comics, Cartooning, Death And Money (File Under Advice, Satirical)
Found this nonsense filed with actual comics career stuff and it's dated but maybe it isn't too dated except for a reference or two. It made me laugh, so it might make you laugh, too.
One upside to a career in comics -- no matter what your income is -- is that it's very unlikely that you'll die violently (Unless it was by your own hand, of course). Personal safety is practically assured when you spend most of your life sitting in a room, losing track of time, losing your ...
2021-10-01 05:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostAn Update
Just a quick note to let folks know that recent mail orders have been backed up, everything will go out as soon as the car repairs are done and we have full use of the car. We're dealing with a lot, the unexpected repair bill to meet inspection meant I had to do a lot of hustling up funds to cover everything. Recent book and art packages will go out as soon as things are settled and we can get on top of everything. Apologies for the delay.
I also am learning to adapt to a new computer, ...
2021-09-29 23:44:48 +0000 UTC View PostNew M&C Commission/Quick Update
Hey, folks. Just letting people who are waiting on signed books and any card drawings they may have purchased from my Instagram in the past week or so that shipments are going to be delayed for a short time. A bunch of packages and envelopes are made up and ready to go, waiting for the next window of opportunity.
We're juggling a lot of things in our house schedule that are throwing the usual routine off for a week or two. I wasn't able to do this past Monday's mail run, things have bee...
2021-09-23 02:23:04 +0000 UTC View PostNerd Doctor Comic Process: Thumbnails, Failure, Finish, Thoughts
The page sat around in the studio for an extended period of time, I'd pick it up and mess with it whenever I was blocked or or bored or happened to see it while the ink was drying on something else. It would get shuffled into some papers and disappear for months.
The thumbnail is pretty typical for a gag strip of mine, mostly dialog breakdowns and pacing, a stab at a main character design. Most of the work went into the second image, the page I abandoned after I got sick of workin...
2021-09-19 23:39:33 +0000 UTC View PostNew 1-Pg Comic: Dr. Robert Fisher, N.D. (Nerd Doctor)
Warts and all. If this had been done for publication in Dork or an anthology, it would go from my scanner over to Sarah's computer for her digitally clean and fix up. I wouldn't have hand-lettered the white-on-black in the title, but in old-school, 1990's, 8 a.m. get-it-done fashion, I wanted to just get this thing done and out of my way. I also wouldn't have pasted down lettering patches, which I'm sure have left the usual artifacts after scanning. Look for the thin lines around some of the ...
2021-09-15 12:31:11 +0000 UTC View PostDevil Puppet Commission/Rough Layout
This was a lot of fun. I kind of went bonkers on the hatching and texturing but I haven't drawn a Devil Puppet story in ages and I got into it. The dialog in balloon 3 is based on old story notes. I signed the art on the blackboard in white "chalk".
2021-09-12 22:21:08 +0000 UTC View PostAnother Short Comic (Index Card Comic #10)
Pirate Cat vs Mothra.
2021-09-11 08:48:28 +0000 UTC View PostEarly Halloween Art: The Cemetery Ghoul (NOTLD)
Technically he should be in a black suit, but I got into inking the folds and decided to leave it as it is. I can ask Sarah to reverse the suit details digitally, and make it black. Or I might just black everything in and have a dark suit version. Or leave it because I'm busy.
I really enjoy doing these horror movie sketches, but they take me longer than I hoped when I started a series of them two years ago. Likenesses. Even of monsters or maniacs, I am super-slow in nailing a lik...
2021-09-10 23:33:32 +0000 UTC View PostMilk & Cheese Burn Milton The Toaster
I found an envelope in my mail pile from someone who asked me to draw them a toaster. The envelope included a blank piece of paper, maybe a blank card of some kind. I had forgotten about it, apparently in August of 2020 someone e-mailed me asking if I'd draw a toaster for them, because they collect drawings of toasters. For some reason, I said I would. I stopped agreeing to draw freebies for folks a few years ago through the mail. I don't get a ton of requests, but enough to cost ...
2021-09-10 06:04:09 +0000 UTC View Post
New Fun Strip: Campfire Tales For Monsters
Raw inks, not digitally cleaned for publishing.
Might do more of these for you folks.
This is the third take, btw, process/anxiety fans. I hated the way the art was developing on the first two attempts, the only panel I liked was the first title I did. So I was going to use it for the finished version. Unfortunately, I tossed the failed attempts into the recycling last night, which was taken away this morning. And I forgot that the title panel wasn't scanned. So I had ...
2021-09-09 01:19:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Milk & Cheese/ Kitaro 9" x 12" Missing/Theft Recreation Commission
Finally finished this second take on M&C-meets-Shigeru Mizuki's Kitaro (and company). The original took me a very long time and I was really bummed out that the art went missing. The recipient. believed that the package was stolen, I forget the details -- but the package didn't reach the intended recipient. I told them to pursue the insurance, I don't know how that went. We have a very good history as far as mailing art goes, this is the only large package I can recall having gone missing...
2021-09-07 04:47:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Milk & Cheese Cat-Style
Penciled when the Pirate Girl entered the household, inked in bits and lines and finished last night after I found it in a pile of sketches.
Based on the "cute style" enamel pin M&C heads.
Bill And Ted And Death (And Audience) 9"x12" Commission Inks
Will post the colored version when finished.
Later, dudes.
2021-09-01 00:52:36 +0000 UTC View PostMilk & Cheese 6"x9" Commission
The poses don't change all that much, which is why I try to change up the catch phrases. Just like wrestling!
I'm happy to be sitting down a lot at the board and getting work done on these, especially since everything's so late. Two more are inked, one needs coloring, one I can't show you because it's a secret, two more are started, one's being penciled after screwing it up (Fugazi cover recreation) and one's vexing me after a series of rough sketches to figures out the composition. Mil...
2021-09-01 00:40:13 +0000 UTC View PostOld Tryout Pages (Never Sent): The Metal Men/Mister Miracle
I wasn't a DC reader as a child, and didn't really start following any DC books until high school. In-between, there were a few DC comics that did catch my eye. One was the Walt Simonson-drawn issues of the 70's Metal Men reboot, another was the Marshall Rogers-drawn 70's Mister Miracle reboot. Both looked weird, different and had oddball characters. I can't remember how I came across these, I may have borrowed them from friends who were DC fans. I didn't become familiar with the original Met...
2021-08-31 21:46:03 +0000 UTC View PostOld High School D&D Artwork (That Showed Up On eBay)
Kind of self-explanatory.
I was fifteen when I did this, deep in my Tolkien-D&D-Star Wars-comics phase of youngster nerd-dom. As you can see, I always had more ambition than talent, but I least I improved quite a bit in the forty years since I drew this on the kitchen table watching T.V. Everything here is made up, nothing referenced, to the detriment of everything from wood textures to anatomy to keeping a goddamn fantasy fortress built upright instead of a collapsing cake. I...
2021-08-29 20:46:13 +0000 UTC View PostNew Comic: The Rainbow Correction
Raw inks, please forgive any stray dirt or lines.
2021-08-27 03:42:01 +0000 UTC View PostGaze Upon My Sketchbook And Despair
A rough attempt at a cover for the Dork collection, inked haphazardly (and incompletely) over time while on the phone or bored with nothing to do. Or avoiding work, very likely.
2021-08-26 18:29:11 +0000 UTC View Post