After sketching the plant creature from Morlock 2001 I was inspired to draw a different sort of morlock, the sort that H.G. Wells wrote of. Sort of. This creature is from a graphic novel that I hope to produce someday so I won’t go into detail here. He’s called a morlock because he does live underground (at least figuratively) and he does eat people (literally).
Princess Ozma
This is a scan of the base art. The final version of this illustration is here.
Morlock 2001
One of the Atlas series that got stuck in my imagination was Morlock 2001, the story of an artificial man who transformed into a plant monster. This is a sketch of the monster.
I never actually owned any Atlas comics. My allowance didn’t have room for them. I read, or more properly, looked through them, on comics racks during the scant 4 or 5 months that the company was publishing. Reading the plot descriptions for Morlock 2001 over at the Atlas Archives makes me wonder if I would still find the character fascinating if I’d owned and read the comics. Seems like a depressing series.
Re-Imagining Atlas
The three characters here are re-imagining of Atlas comics characters. I’ve helpfully labeled each sketch so if you’re interested in finding out more about the original version of each character just go to the who’s who section on the other side of that link.
Betsy Bobbin
Betsy Bobbin is second in the earthly girlie trio of Oz. First comes Dorothy, then comes Betsy, then comes Trot. They’re all girls who came from the outside work, specifically America, and were invited to settle in Oz by Princess Ozma. This version of Betsy is for Oz Squad. The image here is a scan of the base artwork used to the color version here.
Father’s Day
I did this illustration for the Father’s Day edition of the church bulletin back in 2006.
Variety
This page was random practice sketches. In the top left is probably a portrait based on a photo. I don’t recognize her otherwise. In the top right is good ol’ Detritus.
In the middle left, Trouble Coyote. In the middle right is probably the Mayor from Finnegan’s Brink, the graphic novel that Nizzibet and I may finish before we drop dead. At the bottom are sketches for King Roach adversaries.
The Thunder and Lightning Show
After revisiting the priests I decided that I wanted to sketch some other characters I hadn’t done in a long time. Out came Johnny Petrol, Jack Lightning, Davey Thunder and Rabbit Ears the Elf.
Evolution
The thing at the top is one of the Suessaliens.
The three creatures at the bottom of this image are the same three from my 1988 sketchbook. Only the way I depict them has changed in the passing eighteen years. The human and burrabb priests still compete to save the souls of the natives. The natives still blissfully ignore them.
Suessaliens
More aliens from the Dr. Suess planet.
