Nick Chopper in all his sketchy glory. This one was done while I was getting used to drawing the Oz Squad characters prior to starting the first, aborted, black and white relaunch in 2004.
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Tik-Tok
Tik-Tok went crazy in the first issue of Oz Squad. Well, not crazy exactly, his morality spring ran down and he made bad choices.
This sketch was done as part of the process of refamiliarizing myself with the Oz characters and deciding which ones I wanted to do portraits of for the Oz Squad Who’s Who page. I ultimately decided not to draw a Tik-Tok for the page because I didn’t know what had happened to character since the series ended in the nineties.
The Lion
A version of the Cowardly Lion as he can appear on Earth and the Lion as he appears normally. I’m not sure who the craggy nosed creature is. Mombi perhaps.
Sketching the Squad
Various Ozian celebrities sketched in preparation for my current pass at Oz Squad.
And More Sound FX
Last of the sound effects.
Sound FX 2
More sound effects from an early version of Oz Squad.
Sound FX
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.
Princess Ozma
This is a scan of the base art. The final version of this illustration is here.
Betsy Bobbin
Betsy Bobbin is second in the earthly girlie trio of Oz. First comes Dorothy, then comes Betsy, then comes Trot. They’re all girls who came from the outside work, specifically America, and were invited to settle in Oz by Princess Ozma. This version of Betsy is for Oz Squad. The image here is a scan of the base artwork used to the color version here.
Jenny Tsunami
Let’s take a break from George for a moment. This young lady is Jenny Tsunami from Oz Squad.
Who?
I’m afraid you’ll have to wait for the comic for that answer.
