These labels were done for the Woggle Bug entry on the Oz Squad Who’s Who page.
Category Archives: 2005
Strange Eggs
I illustrated a two page story (written by Steve Ahlquist) for one of the Strange Eggs anthologies. These sketches were done to get a feel for the characters.
Sundaying
Finally raining again around here. That’s a relief. I get cranky if there’s too much sun too many days in a row.
Royal Family
Right to left – Ozma, Ozzie, Dorothy
Princess Ozma
Her Royal Majesty, Princess Ozma, Ruler of Oz.
Munchkin Stylin’
Most of the sketches here are of Milo, a Munchkin.
The spiky haired kid is Ozzie.
The long woman at the bottom with the bad hair is Miss Cuttenklip.
Twos
General Jinjur. A Hammerhead. A Tiktok Man.
Two of each.
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.
Christmas Angel
This is a scan of the original art for our 2005 Christmas card.
Shouldn’t every day be Christmas?
Megalon
Speaking of ridiculous Godzilla villains that I can’t stop tinkering with – here’s a version of Megalon, the humanoid beetle with drills instead of hands.
