In the future we will all have weird hairstyles. Because it’s the future and that’s what people do.
Lion Looking
One of the ideas that I liked about Oz Squad was that the Lion could become human when he went from Oz to Earth. I thought of all sorts of adventures he could have while blending with humanity. So I stole it. Well, played with it. Doing an Oz series on my own, while fun to think about, was and is pretty unlikely.
The human that he turned into in the original series wasn’t terribly impressive. The Lion is a huge lion. Big as a horse. So I made the human a much larger fellow. Of all the Oz ideas I’ve played with this version of the man lion is only one I’ve brought back with me to Oz Squad.
Scraps and Ozma
Portraits of the Patchwork Girl and Princess Ozma. As with the Scarecrow image these are not the Oz Squad versions of the characters.
Monkey Rasperry
I was drawing a chimp. Chimpanzees are actually apes not monkeys. But “chimp” isn’t as funny a word as “monkey”. Neither is “ape”. So apes are going to have to live with being called monkeys until they get it together, organize, rise up and crush their human overlords.
Blockhead and Buster
The top character is primarily an exercise in shading.
The bottom character is a version of the Scarecrow. Not Steve Ahlquist‘s Oz Squad version. This was done prior to reconnecting with Steve. This version gave himself a name (“Buster”) and plays saxophone with a blues band in America.
Monday. Again.
The kid with the earring is one of the flying boys from Bonecage Graffiti in the magazine version of Glyph.
The other fellow was just fun to draw.
KZ and the Thing
The fellow with the shaved head is K.Z. O’Neil from Misspent Youths
The fellow with the exaggerated features was fun to draw.
Just Some Guy
Practice portrait.
Meet the Zazkwotch
And now we begin a new (old) sketchbook. As near as I can figure this book dates from the fall of 1998 to sometime in 1999.
This is a portrait of a sasquatch, specifically of the protagonist for Zazquotch. Zazquotch was a silent comic that ran in the GLYPH newspaper tabloid.
Sidetracked by George
I’ve got a commission to do another illustration of George. Good pay, paid quickly. So there will be a delay in sketchbook posting.
