Titanzer Fan-Art!
I drew some fan-art for my friend Kevin Wilson’s giant-robot webcomic Titanzer!
The image depicts the titular titan, Titanzer, having his ass handed to him by the immense evil alien robot Inert, whom I internally refer to as “Fisto Punchalot.” In the foreground is Titanzer’s distressed owner/operator, has-been celebrity Johnny Yamamoto.
In addition to being a fun and hilarious guy who draws a great webcomic, Kevin is also the person who lent me a button machine to make promotional buttons for Savage Nobles in the Land of Enchantment. Below are the three designs:
Check out Titanzer everybody, and DON’T! GET! FISTED!
Calico Jack Guest Comic
I did a guest comic for my friend Patrick Devine’s comic “Calico Jack,” which reassures us that in the 26th century there will still be punk rock, piracy, and (apparently) floppy disks! The more things change, huh?
The comic re-depicts an incident from issue 2, page 13. Jack has obviously taken some creative liberties in the retelling. Capt. Miller is nowhere near as villainous or confrontational in the original story, despite working for an organization, the Federal Union, whose initials are “F.U.”
More Figure Drawing w/ Periscopers
Glad I used ink this time instead of my usual scratchy 4H pencil. Without light, form is meaningless.
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My friend Sarah Burrini is visiting Portland this week, all the way from Cologne, Germany! She has a great biweekly webcomic in German AND English called “Life Ain’t No Ponyfarm” which I recommend you check out, especially if you “sprechen zie Deutches.” I decided to honor her visit by drawing some of her characters.
There are a lot of auto-bio webcomics out there, let’s face it. But “Ponyfarm” is exactly the type of auto-bio comic I can really get into i.e. one that is full of lies. Though Sarah herself is the main character, she is only sometimes the focus of the story – the other characters are Ngumbe, an elephant who wants to be Miles Davis, “El Fungo,” a hot-headed Mexican mushroom, and Buttercup, who is just an adorable pony.
Here’s the color version – I sorta rushed this, but I sense the potential for greatness.
Super-Old SNitLoE Sketches
This week my dad is visiting me here in Portland, OR. Even though we’re having a blast, hanging out with him is definitely slowing down the process of preparing the book for print. However, his visit is not all bad news for SNitLoE fans: in the dark recesses of my old bedroom back in New Orleans, my parents uncovered an ancient dusty sketchbook which contains the earliest known sketches of the Savage Nobles. Check out this ancient history:
The one of Kafir, I think, is the oldest. “A lot of surly teenagers think of themselves as being imprisoned by their parents,” I thought. “But what if a guy’s actual parents were his actual jailers.” Then I drew this image and it was the springboard for creating the entire character. I kinda wish I’d kept the earring!
The early Tonya and the early Theo were both modeled on baristas that I knew. There is one even older drawing of Theo somewhere, which I can no longer locate.
The less said about my drawings skills in the spring of 2009, the better.
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