I think these are more character sketches for the Basket Case series idea but, honestly, I don’t remember. If they are, then that my version of Duane in the upper left.
Brothers’ Keepers
Character sketch for the undeveloped Basket Case comic book.
Happy Freaks
More Basket Case sketching.
Belial on the Road
The Basket Case movies feature the former conjoined twins Duane and Belial Bradley. They were separated as children and now Duane carries Belial around in a large wicker basket. Duane looks like a normal, sorta nerdy white guy. Belial is a head, an arm and a mass of flesh. I’ve only seen Basket Case 2. That one features the Bradley brothers finding love as part of a family of improbable freaks.
That sparked an idea for an ongoing comic book – Duane and Belial would search the country for other persecuted monstrosities. Some would join the family, others would try to kill the family. It would have been a wonderful excuse to draw improbable freaks and hideous violence on a regular basis.
It also would have required getting the rights to the characters and finding a publisher who was interested in the property. That wasn’t something I had the energy for in 1999. I certainly don’t have the energy for it now.
Would You Buy a House From This Man?
No. You shouldn’t. He didn’t pay for the portrait.
Shame on me for not getting the money up front.
Sketches for the Portrait of a Real Estate Agent
These are sketches for a caricature portrait of the partner of the real estate agent I whose portrait appeared earlier in this sketchbook.
Snapper and Company
The fellow with the hat in the upper left is Snapper, the young troll protagonist for Troll Tales. It appears that I wasn’t captivated by the little fellow enough to even finish his portrait. Poor guy.
Trolling
Writing the scripts for Troll Tales was interesting. It probably would have been easier if we’d thought of Snapper, the young troll protagonist, as a villain instead of the hero. It’s not that he was evil, he was just rude, self-centered, mischievous and a little cruel. You know – a troll. And being the protagonist he had to be rewarded for his bad behavior. It’s funny that I’d had no problem writing the misbehaviors of Moe and Detritus but I had problems writing the regular behavior of a troll.
The dancing fool at the top of the page is, once again, Tumbler.
The hairy gent below him is my own version of a troll.
Troll Tales
Nizzibet and I wrote four episodes for a series called Troll Tales for A. Film. A. Film is based in Denmark, most of the writers for the series seemed to be from the US, the art direction was done in Canada and the animation was done in China. The pay was good and the work was fun. Nizz got the credit for the writing. Apparently 26 episodes of the series was produced but, so far, I’ve never seen an episode. There doesn’t seem to be much available info on series on the internet in English.
This fellow is Tumbler, the sidekick of Snapper, the “hero” of the series.
AAAaaargh!
Moe and Buffy are at the top of the page.
The fellow with nose? I don’t know who he is. Any suggestions?
