Monster Model Review interview Part 2

Several years old interview with updated info at the end -- just posted to Monster Model Review on YouTube.

Tor love Bettie!

Drawn in 1994, and intended for an issue of  Tor Love Bettie which never saw print, "Where Bettie?" eventually was published in the comics section of an issue of Scary Monsters magazine.  I found the originals while digging through my files for art to sell on eBay -- and I thought before I offered them up for bid, I'd at least let the story find more of an audience here.  So below you'll find all five pages of this oddball piece -- complete with guest appearances by Criswell, Eck,  the Little Rascals, the Bowery Boys, the Stooges (Shemp!), Mary Hartline, Edison's Frankenstein, Volto, Toto, Snowy/Milou, Vampira, David Letterman as a flying monkey -- and of course, Bela Lugosi.  So please enjoy my tribute to the Swedish man mountain, Tor Johnson, and the ever-lovely Miss Bettie Page.  Click on the images for a larger, more readable view.

More Wild Dog!

Sorting through my files, I stumbled across these Wild Dog cover roughs that I'd completely forgotten about.  Well, it was two decades ago, y'know! These are all very different from the final cover of the Wild Dog Special (WD behind bars).  Drawn with marker on typing paper.

URBAN LEGENDS and SHOCK STORIES trading cards

Here's a project that has been in the works for years!  At long last, we're done and going to print -- with boxes to be released in August.  There are 50 cards in each of these sets -- with additional 3-D versions of the SHOCK cards!  The cards have stories written by Kurt Kuersteiner --and all are drawn by me (my pals Chris Bailey and Michael Collins helped with pencils on a handful of cards -- thanks, guys!)  I've just finished drawing 250 sketch cards (with the assistance of my talented MCAD intern, Hannah on some of them -- thanks, Hannah!) that will be randomly inserted into card packs.  I'm very excited about this project, and can't wait to have the printed versions in my hands!  If you'd like more info, check out Kurt's site: Monsterwax .

Below are an ad for the cards that will be running in Non Sports Update magazine, (which will be running a feature article on the cards), title cards and previews of several cards from the sets.  These will be limited to 1000 boxes, and pre-orders are being taken -- so, if you'd really like a box, I'd suggest ordering soon, as we expect this to sell out -- especially after the NSU article sees print. I really enjoyed getting to cut loose and draw all the creepy monsters and such featured on these cards. If you like EC horror comics, or vintage monster movies -- or just like an old fashioned scary story (the kind told around a campfire), you'll dig these. 

If you'd like to see them, I'll post some preliminary pencils for the cards -- maybe some inked versions (pre-color) and a preview of a few of the sketchcards.  Want to see them?  Leave a comment and let me know!

Wash Tubbs and Capt. Easy

Roy Crane is one of my cartooning heroes, and I often show his work to my students when discussing drawing simply but effectively.  I'm posting this book cover just because I think it's a great image!

They don't make 'em like this anymore!

Continuing to share stuff from my collections as I sort through them.  This nifty little digest mag of girlie pics and cartoons from 1957 features the late great Bettie Page on the inside front cover -- and panel cartoons by the like of Wenzel and Machamer.  Nothing like this on the newsstands anymore!  Well, except for my pal Java's Bachelor Pad Magazine!

Dick Tracy Looks at Television

With all this fuss over the change from analog to digital television, I thought it worth looking at this 1953 TV Guide piece on television by Dick Tracy's creator, Chester Gould.  Click on the pages for a larger, more readable view.