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.
Category Archives: misspent youths
‘Toonin’
I feel even less coherent this morning than usual. So I’ll just let the sketches speak for themselves.
Monday. Again.
The kid with the earring is one of the flying boys from Bonecage Graffiti in the magazine version of Glyph.
The other fellow was just fun to draw.
KZ and the Thing
The fellow with the shaved head is K.Z. O’Neil from Misspent Youths
The fellow with the exaggerated features was fun to draw.
Back to Milpitas
There’s a tiny Lili Veracruz in the upper right of this page.
And a partial sketch of Junkamungo, my revamp of the Milpitas Monster.
Naked Buffy
That title is going to do wonders for my traffic. Wrong Buffy though. The Buffy on this page, Buffy Crawfield, has been in my head (and in minicomics) since 1989. The vampire slayer didn’t start staking until 1992.
The face in the upper right might belong to Marta Honeydiver. If so it’s a lousy likeness.
Detritus is barely visible to the right of Buffy.
Lili is at the bottom left with the long hair.
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.
Lazy Sunday
Back home after a trip to Portland and seeing old friends. You know, the sort of friends you’ve known for more than half your life who remember you when you were young and skinny and could out drink a fish.
Today’s plans involve sketches for an upcoming book, laying around and having a friend over for dinner and a movie.
The Daily Random
Across the top of the page: a variation on the Monster of Piedras Blancas, K.Z. O’Neil and someone unfinished.
Across the middle of the page: a variation on an exposed brain alien and Buffy Crawfield.
Across the bottom of the page: a little person, Cherice Unomuro, Zebragirl and an unfinished something.
New Sketchbook 2004-2007
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.
