Bits of action from the King Roach story. I’m afraid that I’m not going to explain the context of any of this action. Sorry. I don’t have that much writing in me today.

Just enjoy the sight of a kid getting a hole blown through him and wonder about the rest.

This general character design (a hunchbacked creature with one limb and part of its body covered with blobby flesh) shows up a few times in my sketchbook. The design is like the name “Brian Daniels” – it will probably keep showing up until it either finds the perfect character to stick with or until it’s used on a character that appears in print somewhere.

The figure with the skeleton arm was an exercise in drawing something weird. While it may seem like most of what I draw is weird, weird is a relative thing. I don’t think most of what I draw is weird. Something becomes weird when it surprises me in odd ways. It’s a challenge to draw (or write or sculpt or …) something that surprises the artist doing the drawing. I can’t succeed at it that often. I have to both be drawing fairly well and relaxed enough to just draw something without having a mental picture of how it will turn out.

To the right of the figure is King Roach getting ready to toss a car at something.

Along the bottom of the page is some poor schmuck caught between a shoggoth and a giant Deep One. Sucks to be him.

Two members of the Winter Company – a male spider person (at the top) and a female spider person (at the bottom). However they became spider people I doubt if they did it the same way. They obviously aren’t the same species – very different morphologies.

The figure here is an interpretation of Tarzan. I read a few Tarzan novels when I was a kid and enjoyed them but I’ve never been a huge fan. I picked up the entire Tarzan series very cheap when I was at Half Price Books. One of these days I’ll get around to reading them.

The head with the long hair also belongs to Tarzan. Despite his super strength and skills I figure he’s had the chance to pick up a few scars in his life.

The fuzzy shape to the left of Tarzan is probably a shoggoth.

The head at the bottom is the Wizard of Oz. I’m not sure who the other old guy is. Maybe the Wizard if he didn’t have fairy magic keeping him from aging?

I missed posting yesterday. Nothing drastic happened. I just didn’t make it to the computer.

The featured creature in this image is the lemur sorceror from my re-imagined Brute storyline.

I’m not sure what Freakshow refers to. It was either a name I was considering for the Winter Company or I was enjoying playing around with text.

More Winter Company sketches. One might think that with all the pages dedicated to these characters that they held a more solid place in my imagination. Oddly though, they’ve mostly been background; not protagonists but characters intended to show up to make the protagonist’s life more interesting.

At the top is a golem.

At the bottom is Archie, the manticore. He’s the only one of the company besides Henry (Frankenstein’s monster) that I gave a name to. For some reason I’m very fond of him. He always seems so cheerful.

More members of the Winter Company.