Peek-A-Boo

Yes that’s my mug peeking over the cards in Brian and Kristy Miller’s MASTER DIGITAL COLOR book. The original art is from RARE BIT FIENDS #1 with color by Brian.

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Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Turk

This is Scott McCloud’s drawing after a photo that was taken at the summit meeting where the Creator Bill Of Rights was argued and signed. What year was that; 1986? That’s me, second from right. Bissette, Eastman, Laird, Sim, Gerhard, Marder, Murphy, Zulli and the usual suspects alongside. © Scott McCloud.

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Self Publisher Slugfest

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Roarin’ Rick goes toe-to-toe with Eddie Campbell’s Bacchus in CEREBUS #204 by Dave Sim and Gerhard. Dave’s doing me with a brush instead of his trusty croquille and it comes out a lot like Greg Irons, doesn’t it? I did the lettering for my character’s word balloons.

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Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Bike Messenger

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In 1973, I spent almost a year working as a bike messenger in San Francisco. It was during this time I had the apocalyptic dream series that I drew as comics in 1996. The material first appeared in RARE BIT FIENDS (this piece was the cover to #18) and then was collected in CRYPTO ZOO.

Pen, ink, dye, airbrush and colored pencil.

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Kirby Meets Kirby

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This previously unpublished photo is from San Diego; taken in either in 1991 or 1992 I think. I have just introduced Jack Kirby to his namesake, Kirby Veitch. Jack’s response: “Yoiks!”

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Three-Fisted Artist

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Me in 1972 while working on TWO-FISTED ZOMBIES. Photo by Deedee Jones

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Faces In The Crowd

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John Totleben sneaks Steve and Maia Bissette, myself and Alan Moore into a crowd scene while inking my SWAMP THING #37 pencils.

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Happy Birthday, Harvey!

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The Smith Magazine folks have organized a mind-bending birthday tribute to Harvey Pekar, getting over ninety artists to contribute original head shots of that famous mug. Here’s mine (with a tip of the hat to fellow collage fiend, Jack Kirby).

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And Now We Are Six

Oil-Portrait

This is the portrait my dad, Robert Veitch Jr., painted of me back in 1958. He worked from my First Grade school photo which had been taken a year earlier, when I was six years old. The painting hung in our living room while I was growing up and if you look closely at the upper lip you’ll see thumbtack holes where my brothers sometimes attached paper mustaches.

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X-Ray Boy

Found this negative in the back of a drawer. It’s from my high school yearbook photo. I’m 17 and obviously trying out my new super X-Ray powers.

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