Back in the early 80′s the violence level of superhero comics was still pretty subdued. But when I wrote and drew THE ONE for Epic Comics I was inspired as much by Wonder Warthog as by Jack Kirby. Here’s a sequence that kind of demonstrates that early aesthetic.

You grab a pen and paper, empty the mind and let whatever is in there come out.

Well, maybe not twenty years to the day but pretty close. TEJANO, which I penciled and Tom Yeates inked, was published in the October 1981 issue of DC’s JONAH HEX, so there is a good possibility we were working on it during May of that year. Here’s the splash page.

A budding young cartoonist who took a class I taught a while back.

With all the interview bits and black and white line art I’ve been running it’s time for a retinal color blast. This image was created for the title page to my SHINY BEASTS collection using blobs of color manipulated by the Smudge tool in Photoshop.

I think this might have been from a Hi Eisman assignment at Kubert School. Probably an exercise in adapting a scene from a book as a cartoon illustration. Looks sort of biblical and I don’t have a clue why I gave it the Segar treatment.