A version of Lili Veracruz drawn in 2001 while I was drawing a variety of the alien species for the Sentient 39 universe. I was drawing the aliens so I could practice coloring them in Photoshop using my Wacom tablet. Once I was done with the aliens I planned to start coloring some Misspent Youths characters.
Category Archives: misspent youths
In Later Years
I think this sketch is from 2003 when I was playing with ideas for a webcomic. This is Moe, one of my protagonists from Misspent Youths, as an old man. Many of my characters have whole biographies. Moe has multiple biographies depending which “universe” I’m imagining him in.
Marta Says Goodbye
It’s the last page of this sketchbook from 1996. Tomorrow I’ll post something from … 2009!
Treacher and Marta
Treacher Murphy and his sister, Marta Honeydiver. This is the second to last page scanned from that 1996 sketchbook. Tomorrow will finish things up. And then what?
Portrait of Treacher as a Young Character
Treacher Murphy, background character from Misspent Youths, making a return visit to my sketchbook.
Happy 3rd!
I’m told that Monday is the official Independence Day holiday. I haven’t actually checked. It would be easy to do. I look up much more obscure facts all the time. Taking today as the holiday just makes more sense. So that’s what my company is doing.
Have fun blowin’ stuff up y’all.
Misspent Youths – RIP
I was googling Misspent Youths this morning, for no reason other than being curious about all things me, and discovered that the series’ Wikipedia entry has fallen prey to that site’s Relevancy Police. I’m actually a little surprised it took them as long as it did to purge the entry. I mean, good god, Wikipedia is a Serious Endeavor now isn’t it? We can’t be cluttering it up with entries about unimportant things can we now?
Heh.
Fortunately plenty of other sites have poached Wikipedia’s content so it was easy enough to locate the text of the Misspent Youths entry. I’m posting it here for my own reference. And before you ask, no, I didn’t write this. I may be an egotist but I’ve never been good at praising my own work –
Misspent Youths was an independent comic book by David Lee Ingersoll from the early 1990s, running only five issues. Reflecting a punk aesthetic even edgier at times than the Hernandez Bros.’ Love and Rockets, it dealt with two homeless youth, Moe and Detritus, and their friends in a dark urban landscape filled with drugs, gangs, clubs, and music. The stories were complex, very anti-authoritarian, and the humor rich and sardonic.
Barely Glimpsed Siblings
A couple of characters from my old Misspent Youths comic book. If neither look familiar it’s probably because neither of them appeared in more than a half dozen panels in the five published issues. The young man with the shaved head is Treacher Murphy. The young lady is his sister Marta Honeydiver. They share the same mother but have different fathers. I don’t remember now (if I ever decided) which is the older of the two.
Wednesday Faces
A variety of faces for your Wednesday morning.
At the top left is what looks like a variation on Beastie.
The bottom two characters are Marek and Quince from Bonecage Graffiti the Misspent Youths prequel that ran in the magazine version of Glyph. Marek was a sorcerer who wanted to gain ultimate power by free some ancient Lovecraftian gods. Quince was his main flunky. He’s not looking too good here. At some point I’d planned to have Quince get killed and Marek would bring him back as sort of zombie. This is probably what he would have looked like.
Great Cthulhu
At the top middle, a partial portrait of Detritus.
To the left a fetish mask inspired by African totems.
In the middle and on the right – ?
At the bottom, a Cthulhu combining aspects of the “traditional” Lovecraft version and Matt Howarth’s version from his Bugtown comics.
