From my ROAD BITS notebook, collecting dreams while on the road, in May 1994. I’d dreamed of Don Simpson, creator of BIZARRE HEROES, the night before the Capital City Trade Show, but took the opportunity of hanging out at the bar to sketch the great artist from life. And yes, he did go on to add some dreams of his own to ROAD BITS.

A ball point pen, a scrap of paper, a few seconds and a window into the Id. Circa 1985.

A third issue of WNET’s NATURE COMICS is in production. This one is based on their upcoming show about dragons; both mythical and real. I’m doing a six pager, which provides lots of opportunities to draw weird dragons such as ABBADDON THE ODIOUS that you see here in the pencil stage. I’m assuming WNET will be providing free downloads of the finished comic as they did for the previous issue. I’ll post a link as soon as I get one.

We call it a “privy” up here in New England. Pen and ink, 1993.

More parking lot art. Marker in sketchbook, 1998.

Somebody sent me the link to this flicker set showing the trials and tribulations one guy had getting a tattoo based on the DOCTOR BLASPHEMY design. All turned out well in the end, though.

Another bit of Bissette and Veitch obscura (and maybe another reason to remember the seventies?) is this page from “Into The Shop” from MARVEL PREVIEW FEATURING STAR-LORD #18, published in 1979. This was more of Steve’s show, with him penciling and inking everything from Ron Goulart’s adaption of his own short story. I helped Steve on the layouts and added the airbrush clouds. Haven’t seen the originals in a while but even with the lousy pulp reproduction, Steve’s stark black and white figures pop against the dark moody toning. In those days we artists didn’t really worry about the legal repercussions of using a famous person in our comics. Steve and I were big fans of Clint Eastwood and really dug the feel of Sergio Leone’s films, both of which we incorporated here.