Category Archives: 2004

Sound FX

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I like doing hand lettering for comics. Lettering the dialog for each scene isn’t that exciting, the fun is in the sound effects, in trying to represent a noise visually. Most comics these days are lettered on the computer. I hand lettered a short story recently and was reminded why. Computer lettering speeds up the process and usually the results are fine.

The sound effects here were done for an early version of Oz Squad. That artwork will show up eventually on an Oz Squad website. Eventually.

See You Later

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In 2004 one of the major clients at the Day Job shut down most of the division we were supporting. My boss asked me to do an illustration for a sympathy/good-luck-in-your-next-job card that we could send to the departing employees. This was that illustration. I don’t remember if we actually sent out a card but, if we did, we certainly didn’t use this illustration.

Basket Case

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The fellow in the lower left, all head and arms but lacking a torso, is based on Belial of the Basket Case series of films. At one time I was interested in adapting and expanding the story for a comic series. Of course, being interested in something and being committed to something are two different things.

Swamp Face

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I think I’ve mentioned that I’m a fan of swamp monsters. Swamp monsters seem mostly to populate comic books. I can’t think of a lot of them in movies. Sure, there are a lot of crazies living in cinematic swamps but few animated humanoid masses of goo. I’m not sure why. The only original filmic swamp monster that comes to mind is the Pere mal fait from the old Night Stalker series.

All this is the long winded way of me saying, “Look! A swamp monster!”

Lazy Sunday

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The plan today is to have a lazy Sunday. Nizzibet and I are going to see a 10 am show of Prince Caspian this morning. This afternoon I hope to work on some art. Then tonight is our regular dinner and video night with Derek. Our local video store has been selling off its VHS tapes for a dollar so I picked up a stack of older (1950s & 60s) horror movies. I might subject him to one of those.

No stories behind any of the characters sketched today.

Sketches, Sketches

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A few old friends on today’s page –
Top left, unfinished, a sasquatch
Middle top, profile of a character that looks like a vulcan or a romulan but isn’t (and the explanation is more than I want to go into this morning).
Top right, some sort of psychotic medieval dwarf
Lower left, the Frankenstein monster I can Henry
Lower right, middlish, an avatar of Y’golonac
and then some sketchy things on the bottom of the page.

Happy Birthday to ME!

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Today is my birthday. To celebrate I’m probably going to do the same thing I would if this were any other Friday – go to work, read, send some emails and hang out with Nizzibet. I’m an exciting guy.

New Sketchbook 2004-2007

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And now we return to the sketchbooks. This one got started sometime in 2004 and apparently only worked in sporadically. The last few pages have dates of 2007. We’ll get to those eventually.

This page is primarily random sketches. Abbie Guerrecash from Misspent Youths is at the top of the page but, except for the version of Popeye at the bottom of the page, the rest of the figures are one-offs.