Nick Chopper in all his sketchy glory. This one was done while I was getting used to drawing the Oz Squad characters prior to starting the first, aborted, black and white relaunch in 2004.
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Tik-Tok
Tik-Tok went crazy in the first issue of Oz Squad. Well, not crazy exactly, his morality spring ran down and he made bad choices.
This sketch was done as part of the process of refamiliarizing myself with the Oz characters and deciding which ones I wanted to do portraits of for the Oz Squad Who’s Who page. I ultimately decided not to draw a Tik-Tok for the page because I didn’t know what had happened to character since the series ended in the nineties.
The Lion
A version of the Cowardly Lion as he can appear on Earth and the Lion as he appears normally. I’m not sure who the craggy nosed creature is. Mombi perhaps.
Sketching the Squad
Various Ozian celebrities sketched in preparation for my current pass at Oz Squad.
Naked Buffy
That title is going to do wonders for my traffic. Wrong Buffy though. The Buffy on this page, Buffy Crawfield, has been in my head (and in minicomics) since 1989. The vampire slayer didn’t start staking until 1992.
The face in the upper right might belong to Marta Honeydiver. If so it’s a lousy likeness.
Detritus is barely visible to the right of Buffy.
Lili is at the bottom left with the long hair.
Mostly Archie
I had a rough plot outline for Misspent Youths. It was intended to run 30 issues and have three main story arcs. The first ten issues had Brother Entropy and the Hounds of the Sixth Horseman of the Apocalypse as the main villains and took place in the Big Unnamed City.
The second ten issues were to take place in a small town. Moe and Detritus were to decide that they wanted to see what having a “normal” teenage life was like. So they went to high school – a high school populated by parodies of comic book/strip kids – the Archie Gang, teenaged versions of Peanuts and whatever other cartoon kids I felt like playing with. The main villain for that was to be a teenaged Antichrist.
The last ten issues were to be a road trip across America.
It’s hard to know whether the story would have played out as I imagined it. I quickly started diverging from my original outline. Throw away characters became interesting and got more pages; I started seeing new ways to structure the stories; things, as they say, evolved.
Lazy Sunday
Back home after a trip to Portland and seeing old friends. You know, the sort of friends you’ve known for more than half your life who remember you when you were young and skinny and could out drink a fish.
Today’s plans involve sketches for an upcoming book, laying around and having a friend over for dinner and a movie.
Don’t Tease the Children of Yig
The last four spot illustrations for Worlds of Cthulhu #2.
No post tomorrow. Nizzibet and I are driving down to Portland tonight and hanging out with some old friends this evening and Saturday.
Coffee and Tentacles
The two illustrations at the top of the page were for the wild west article in Worlds of Cthulhu #2.
The character sketches on the bottom are for a supporting character in the Sentient 39 version of Misspent Youths. There’s a sentient 39 version of every story I’ve ever thought of.
The Mythos in the Old West
For the second issue of Worlds of Cthulhu I was asked to do some spot illustrations for The Good, the Bad and the Utterly Insane, an article on roleplaying Call of Cthulhu in the wild, wild west. Here are four of the (prephotoshopped) illustrations.
