Thursday.
Yup. Again.
Category Archives: 1999
The Widower
The Widower was a mystery series that Nizzibet and I came up with when she was still thinking about writing comics. The protagonist, Purdue Granninger, was an ugly man that the rest of the world thought was stupid. A smart woman recognized that he had more brains than anyone else recognized and she encouraged him to join the police force, go to college and become a detective. They married. And then she died of cancer and left him with a fortune he didn’t know she had. Purdue used the fortune to retire and to help good people out of bad situations.
My picture of Gran’s personality is somewhat different than Nizz’s. Her version is probably more human. The series is her baby these days and maybe one day she’ll have a chance to write it.
The man who is missing an eye and has a ripped up mouth? Not Granninger. That’s Eugene Thatcher, an old villain I invented when I was a teenager. He’s a government assassin and not a fun guy to hang out with.
Again with the Practice Sketches
Another page of practice sketches. I don’t get much practice sketching in these days. With deadlines looming any practice work I do tends to be related to the projects I’m working on at the time of the sketching.
Back
My flight was supposed to leave Sacramento at 6 pm last night. It didn’t leave until 10:20 so I didn’t get back to Seattle until after midnight. Going to be drinking a lot of caffeine today.
Remnants
Daughter, Father, Mother. These characters were originally designed for a comic strip that went nowhere after the writer left the Labor of Love Studio. I can write humorous material but I’m not much of joke writer. There’s a definite talent and skill to writing the short, in and out punch of a daily comic strip and I don’t have it.
This family eventually got repurposed for the first version of Miracle Max but that’s another story.
Trollboy
A young troll.
Fortunately not the kind that eats human beings.
Lucky you.
Button Eyes
There are a number of cartoonists who just use dots for their character’s eyes. There’s a talent to getting a character’s face to look expressive with fewer lines. Whenever I use just dots I think the results look just a bit creepy.
Not that I have any problem with that.
Passed Away
This image was done for a sympathy card for friends who had a close family member die.
Chainsaw
The mangy looking cartoon cat is based on Chainsaw, an old tom who adopted me back in 1993 in Santa Rosa and moved with us when we relocated to Seattle. He was a great cat.
Boralis
The creature with the tusks in the center is our old friend Boralis the demon.
Most of the characters above and below him were originally created for a comic strip I’d discussed doing with former member of Labor of Love in 1996 or 1997. One of these days I’ll get around to posting the art for those strips. I’ll need to find it first of course.
