I’m not sure when this piece was done. I’m guessing it was 2004 or 2005. I found the image back in some old files on my art computer. I forgot to check the date on it before I moved it onto my storage drive. Anyway, dancing burrabbs. Could be dancing as a religious rite, could be dancing for tea. Nobody tells me anything.
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Don’t Mess With Badger
Don’t mess with Badger. Badger can drive. He might have to sit on a pile of rocks in order to see over the dashboard but that won’t stop him. He’ll drop one of those rock on the accelerator and go, baby!
And thus we come to the end of another sketchbook.
Coyote Goes To War
It’s not that Coyote wanted to help the pilgrims. Scarecrow really didn’t give him much choice. She took his wagon and his patent medicine and said he could come along. Badger now, Badger drove the wagon off the cliff and through the walls of the Wiretemple. When Badger does the right thing he does it with enthusiasm.
Coyote’s Paws
For the Scarecrow story I didn’t want to just have Coyote be an anthropomorphic creature; standing on two legs with human hands. He wasn’t Coyote the trickster (though he was a trickster), he was an evolved (mutated?) coyote. I imagined him with articulated paws that he knuckle walked on like an ape. When he sat down he could use the paws to manipulate tools as well as a human.
Coyote, Wirepriest, Badger
The story title was something like: “How Coyote Did a Good Deed”. In the story Scarecrow ropes Coyote and Badger into helping a band of pilgrims escape from a Wiretemple.
A Little Bit of Scarecrow
The figure with the short hair and facial marking on the left (as well as the sketched in, unfinished, undetailed figure on the right) is from Scarecrow. I got the idea to do a short story featuring the character when my King Roach story was bogging down. I hadn’t given up (the King Roach characters on the page indicate that) but other story/character ideas were crowding my imagination, demanding that I pay a little attention to them.
Brian Daniels
It’s Brian Daniels. I don’t think it’s Saturday for him. Poor Brian.
The Assistant
This is the old man’s assistant. The bureaucrat one rather than the buffed out military one. I was trying to make him as bland and non-descript as possible.
Brian’s Sister
At various times Brian has been an only child, an orphan and had a sibling. This sketch is of Brian’s sister the cheerleader. I don’t think I ever gave her a name. I’m pretty sure I didn’t come up with a name for the guy in the lower right; the sister’s boyfriend and brother to one of Brian’s best friends. That best friend is the kid with the glasses who showed up in a sketch earlier in the week. Him I named but, unfortunately, I’ve forgotten what the name was.
All clear?
The Vile Old Man
The unhappy looking old man and his buffed attendant are from the 1999/2000 version of King Roach. That version of the story was set in modern day America. The old man was the head of a top secret organization that had developed advanced technological and biological weapons. Of course, one of their bioweapons, a monster called Saur Thirteen had escaped and was terrorizing the countryside. King Roach and Saur Thirteen were to fight and then, once King Roach had defeated Saur Thirteen, the old man’s organization would be after King Roach to make him one of their weapons. It wasn’t exactly a fresh idea then and it’s only gotten more stale over the years.
I did actually get a chunk of art penciled for this version of the story. No doubt I’ll post it once I find it.
