Illustration Throwback Thursday
January 11th, 2018 | Posted in Illustration Throwback Thursday
Here’s a look at a cover illustration and some spots I did for Scholastic back in 2007, for one of their classroom magazines. The cover story was about election primaries and the process political parties went through to decides their candidates. That was back when that process actually yielded the most competent candidates. If I had this to do today instead of a race it would be a pro wrestling cage match complete with pieces of razor blade hidden in the candidates hand tape. READ MORE
January 5th, 2018 | Posted in Illustration Throwback Thursday
Here’s a look at a cover illustration and some spots I did back in January 2011 for Honolulu Magazine for their annual “Worst Things of the Year” issue called the Sour Poi Awards. Both finals and pencils: READ MORE
December 7th, 2017 | Posted in Illustration Throwback Thursday
I recently acquired copies of this four issue miniseries I did the pencils on for Marvel back in 1994… got them for a whopping 75 cents each (I over paid, I think). Can’t imagine where I lost my copies along the way. I wrote a blog post about the job some time back, but here is a look at the four covers and a few scans of some interior pages. Written by Terry Collins, inks by Marie Severin (except the cover of issue #1 shown above, inks by Jimmy Palmiotti), lettering by Dave Sharpe and colors by John Kalisz. READ MORE
November 2nd, 2017 | Posted in Illustration Throwback Thursday
This is a poster illustration I did in 2007 for Teacher’s Discovery. They sold it for several years for posting in science classrooms. It features caricatures (and some gags) of famous inventors and scientists at a “Superbowl” type event, both in the field and in the crowd. The poster had a key as there are about 30 different scientists depicted and the rest are just extras, but I don’t have that key and can’t remember who some of the inventors are. This poster was really big, something like 30″ x 40″. READ MORE
September 7th, 2017 | Posted in Illustration Throwback Thursday
A week or so ago I did the Wizard Word Chicago Comic Con, and when there my old pal Patrick Williams came by my booth with a surprise for me. Patrick was an art director, inker, letterer, and colorist for NOW Comics back in the day, and we worked together on the Married… with Children series among other things. He had run across a couple of old originals of mine among his piles of stuff, and bright them to give back to me. This one was a promo piece that appeared in other NOW titles, inked (I believe) by David Mowry. This was probably done… READ MORE
June 22nd, 2017 | Posted in Illustration Throwback Thursday
Doing work in the advertising world can be weird. Often something you might have spent quite a lot of time working on, and which the client was happy with, never sees the light of day in print despite all involved being paid as agreed. That may seem outrageous but that is what sometimes happens in the advertising business. Companies often just burn up money producing images and designs for ad campaigns that never get off the ground. I’ll get paid full rates (and advertising generally pays a lot better than editorial) to do finished art that is only used as part of a pitch to… READ MORE
June 1st, 2017 | Posted in Illustration Throwback Thursday
I did this series of spot illustrations for Cleveland Magazine for their “Best of Cleveland 2011 Awards” feature back in… wait for it… 2011! Finals and pencil roughs: Best of Drink: The “Slap Shot”… Best of Food: Luxury Sunday Buffet Best of Entertainment: October “Dead Ride” zombie bike race A fun little project. They wanted bold and colorful… Here are the pencil sketches: READ MORE
April 27th, 2017 | Posted in Illustration Throwback Thursday
I did these animated character designs for a company that used them in both a film and for a series of commercials, as well as some TV show pilots, obviously political in nature. I thought I’d post them today since I am doing a new round of these for some new pilot projects that same company is doing. No shortage of political “characters” these days: READ MORE
