Prior to putting together the first magazine issue of Glyph we (the 1996 version of Labor of Love) took a stab at doing a jam comic. It was to be wordless story about a young girl marooned on an alien world. These sketches are of the girl. Nizzibet and I roughed out the story, I did layouts and I and some of the other LoL artists were going to jam together to finish the art. Unfortunately the story never got finished. Nizzibet and I, who started the process, didn’t schedule ourselves so that an artists’ jam session really happened. Without the synergy of a group working together the individual artists put in some time and then found other, more personally involving things to do. The unfinished pages now reside in a box somewhere.
Two and Not Even a Half Faces
Another page from the 1996 sketchbook. It looks like practice sketches.
New Old Sketchbook 1996
And now it’s time to review another sketchbook. This one is from (maybe late 1995 and) 1996. Nizzibet and I were living with room mates in a funky old house in Ballard. We’d set up an office in the basement and were working on getting together material and financing for the first magazine version of Glyph.
And there are quite a few sketches of naked folks in the mix of this one. So if having drawings of naked folks appear on your computer screen is problematic you might want to be careful about visiting this blog for the next couple of months.
These particular naked people are not part of any project. Just practice nakedness.
Remake/Remodel – The Gadget Man
My contribution to this week’s Remake/Remodel thread over on Warren Ellis’s Whitechapel forums.
Spider Queen Remake/Remodel
Another contribution to Warren Ellis’s Remake/Remodel challenges – The Spider Queen.
Sarah Byam Toon
The last of the Labor of Love cartoon portraits from 1999 at least until I run across the original drawings somewhere. (I did do portraits of other members but those weren’t on the zip disks I was archiving when I found these pieces.) It’s the founder of Labor of Love, Ms. Sarah Byam.
Happy Birthday to Me!
It’s my birthday today. I’m either older or younger than you. Nizzibet and I are off in Portland hanging with old old friends.
Jeff Swenson Toon
Another Labor of Love member toon portrait – Jeff Swenson. Jeff has been one of the busiest of all the former LOL folks, at least artistically. Lots of cartoons and comics on the other side of that link.
Derek Fetters Toon
Another Labor of Love Studio staffer cartoon from 1999. This is Derek Fetters, writer, editor and currently, internet radio drama producer. I highly recommend checking out his horror comedy serial The Unspeakable and the Inhuman.
Jenn Manley Lee Toon
This cartoon portrait is of Jenn Manley Lee circa 1999. I can’t tell you why she’s holding a sword. It just seemed like the right thing to draw.
