This is probably the last contribution I doing for the Remake/Remodel challenges for a while. They’re fun to do but I’ve got another book deadline on my plate and a bunch of weekend weddings coming up and that’s going to kill whatever “spare” time I thought I had. I almost didn’t contribute to this one. The character wasn’t inspiring any good ideas. It wasn’t until some other artists had put theirs up that I thought of modifying a drawing I’d already done weeks ago.

Another contribution to the Remake/Remodel challenges over at Warren Ellis’ Whitechapel forums. This character’s name sounds goofier now than it probably did in the 1940s but even then I suspect it sounded a little silly. Hyper the Phenomenal? Sure. How about Super the Unbelievable? Ultra the Amazeriffic?

And here’s part 2 of my interpretation of the villainous International Patents.

The first half of my contribution to the International Patents Remake / Remodel exercise. Apparently Harry Houdini made some serials back in the day. International Patents were the villains in his first one The Master Mystery.

Another contribution to the Whitechapel Forums Remake Remodel exercise – a character called the Ghost Exterminator this time. I’ve been trying to do double duty with these illustrations. One figure at least has to be useful for another project that I’m working on. I’d started getting a little more ambitious by adding color for The Blue Lady and then more elaborate illustrations for Digambara Samiyar. I’m always amazed by what other contributors come up with. Sometimes the pieces are one off jokes. Other times, as with this character, little comic stories get created. I recommend following the link and checking out the results.

My version of Digambara Samiyar for the Remake/Remodel exercise at Warren Ellis’s forums.

Another bit of recent art. Every week at his Whitechapel forums, Warren Ellis has been running an exercise called Remake / Remodel. He puts up an old pulp fiction character that has slipped into public domain and invites his readers to contribute new artistic interpretations of the character. This is my version of The Blue Lady.

My contribution to this week’s Remake/Remodel thread over on Warren Ellis’s Whitechapel forums.

Another contribution to Warren Ellis’s Remake/Remodel challenges – The Spider Queen.