This page seems to have been done soon after I watched Basket Case 2. The blob with the face and hands is Belial, the “basket case” of the title. I had an idea for a comic series sequel to the film. I’ll go into that in a later post.
The people on the page are Dave, The Jade Buddha and Sister D from Bugfuck Palace.
Thursday.
Yup. Again.
The Widower was a mystery series that Nizzibet and I came up with when she was still thinking about writing comics. The protagonist, Purdue Granninger, was an ugly man that the rest of the world thought was stupid. A smart woman recognized that he had more brains than anyone else recognized and she encouraged him to join the police force, go to college and become a detective. They married. And then she died of cancer and left him with a fortune he didn’t know she had. Purdue used the fortune to retire and to help good people out of bad situations.
My picture of Gran’s personality is somewhat different than Nizz’s. Her version is probably more human. The series is her baby these days and maybe one day she’ll have a chance to write it.
The man who is missing an eye and has a ripped up mouth? Not Granninger. That’s Eugene Thatcher, an old villain I invented when I was a teenager. He’s a government assassin and not a fun guy to hang out with.
Another page of practice sketches. I don’t get much practice sketching in these days. With deadlines looming any practice work I do tends to be related to the projects I’m working on at the time of the sketching.
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.
Daughter, Father, Mother. These characters were originally designed for a comic strip that went nowhere after the writer left the Labor of Love Studio. I can write humorous material but I’m not much of joke writer. There’s a definite talent and skill to writing the short, in and out punch of a daily comic strip and I don’t have it.
This family eventually got repurposed for the first version of Miracle Max but that’s another story.
A young troll.
Fortunately not the kind that eats human beings.
Lucky you.
There are a number of cartoonists who just use dots for their character’s eyes. There’s a talent to getting a character’s face to look expressive with fewer lines. Whenever I use just dots I think the results look just a bit creepy.
Not that I have any problem with that.
This image was done for a sympathy card for friends who had a close family member die.
The mangy looking cartoon cat is based on Chainsaw, an old tom who adopted me back in 1993 in Santa Rosa and moved with us when we relocated to Seattle. He was a great cat.
