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.

Things have been crazy around here so I haven’t been able to post every day. Here’s some eye candy, another wrist blaster sketch, until I get the next bit of my interview up.

Another collage piece from the late 1970’s.

Pen and ink.

This was an illo I did for the Shadowhawk trading card series. Created by the great Jim Valentino, this Image hero was one rough dude; his trademark move was breaking the backs of criminals. Shadowhawk is ® Jim Valentino.

In the early autumn of 1976, Joe Kubert pulled in a mural commission from local comics retailer, Ivan Snyder. One warm weekend Joe brought a gaggle of newbie students to the garage of the carriage house and we painted a full color superhero mural on plywood panels from his rough sketch. The piece fronted Ivan’s store in a local mall for many years. Here’s an advertisement I drew for that same store showcasing that same mural. It ran in Ivan’s catalog.

This was a color portfolio piece I whipped up about the time I graduated from Kubert School. Still teaching myself airbrush and working, I think, from a book of electron scanning photographs.

This was part of an assignment for one of Joe Kubert’s classes at Kubert School in 1978. Joe had shown us how to use brush, ink and grease pencil on a pebble board and this was one of my samples.

An unused illustration for an article I wrote about the Lucca, Italy comics festival for Heavy Metal back in 1981.