These are sketches for a caricature portrait of the partner of the real estate agent I whose portrait appeared earlier in this sketchbook.
Category Archives: 1999
Snapper and Company
The fellow with the hat in the upper left is Snapper, the young troll protagonist for Troll Tales. It appears that I wasn’t captivated by the little fellow enough to even finish his portrait. Poor guy.
Trolling
Writing the scripts for Troll Tales was interesting. It probably would have been easier if we’d thought of Snapper, the young troll protagonist, as a villain instead of the hero. It’s not that he was evil, he was just rude, self-centered, mischievous and a little cruel. You know – a troll. And being the protagonist he had to be rewarded for his bad behavior. It’s funny that I’d had no problem writing the misbehaviors of Moe and Detritus but I had problems writing the regular behavior of a troll.
The dancing fool at the top of the page is, once again, Tumbler.
The hairy gent below him is my own version of a troll.
Troll Tales
Nizzibet and I wrote four episodes for a series called Troll Tales for A. Film. A. Film is based in Denmark, most of the writers for the series seemed to be from the US, the art direction was done in Canada and the animation was done in China. The pay was good and the work was fun. Nizz got the credit for the writing. Apparently 26 episodes of the series was produced but, so far, I’ve never seen an episode. There doesn’t seem to be much available info on series on the internet in English.
This fellow is Tumbler, the sidekick of Snapper, the “hero” of the series.
AAAaaargh!
Moe and Buffy are at the top of the page.
The fellow with nose? I don’t know who he is. Any suggestions?
Creepy Doll Face
I love creepy dolls; ragged stitched up threadbare toys; loved to death but still kicking. I love them more as concepts than as reality. All my old toys are gone now.
Minus Seth
It’s the lizards! Not all the lizards. I seem to have left Seth out. That’s not surprising. Seth is the level headed one and therefore less likely to provide a lively expression.
At the top – Aunt Hortense
Middle left – Zerro
Middle right – Missi
Bottom left – Willie
Bottom right – Lamallia
What Are You Doing Inside on a Sunny Day?
For that matter, what am I doing inside?
Oh yeah. Deadlines.
Back to work.
Pulp Heroes
At the top of the page is another sketch of Purdue Granninger. The thing on the right is nothing specific.
Under that is Belial in the process of being redesigned. The original movie version is a crawling sort of creature and I wanted something more active.
A version of Fu Manchu is under Belial. Next to him is a random freak.
At the bottom is a Shadow analogue – the Ifrit. More on him in a later post.
Belial in the Palace
This page seems to have been done soon after I watched Basket Case 2. The blob with the face and hands is Belial, the “basket case” of the title. I had an idea for a comic series sequel to the film. I’ll go into that in a later post.
The people on the page are Dave, The Jade Buddha and Sister D from Bugfuck Palace.
