I goofed on this one but I'm not going to redraw it. Myron is way too small in panel two, compared to other strips he's been miniaturized. Oh, well, if Walter Lantz and company could get away with Woody Woodpecker growing and shrinking within the same cartoon I can get away with it once in a whil...
2024-11-26 11:52:21 +0000 UTC View PostA few minutes of me futzing around with a Tombow brush calligraphy pen (the green one). I was mainly outlining figures. I went a little faster than I normally like to, I think holding the phone in my other hand made me concentrate harder or maybe my mood was good because usually I can't get this ...
2024-11-22 23:36:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Pencils down.
The background clutter and shelves are going to get knocked out in color so they recede, but I still like my clutter to look cluttered. And I wanted to slip some characters from various DORK comics into the scene.
Worried about the inking stage, which is why I pencile...
2024-11-20 10:28:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Slow but unsteady.
Mostly background details left. Then I can start inking. And do the title design while Sarah starts on the color work. Behind on so many things right now, it'll be a relief to have this off my hands so production can get started.
I also don't know what the hell w...
2024-11-20 01:27:37 +0000 UTC View Post
One of the toughest gigs I illustrated for MAD but one I was pretty happy with when all was said and done. The reason it was tougher than most of the assignments was that I had to find all the corporate logos, print them out and trace them into the body of the illustrations. Then I tried to work ...
2024-11-16 21:45:29 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm not sure if I've posted this before, something seems awfully familiar to me about this old drawing.
Thanks to Juan Ruvalcaba for sending this along. I just dropped him a line and am including my response to his asking if I was asked often to draw the Predator.
He also commented ...
2024-11-11 04:27:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Just fyi, this strip is not a reflection of my current state of mind. Just some morbid humor. And a reflection on my inability to get anything done on time.
But if I do live another 27 years, I will definitely get some more comics made.
2024-11-04 20:52:58 +0000 UTC View Post
The second Hacktober drawing that I began a few years ago and only finished now.
This guy is the leader of the alien schmucks from the movie Killers From Space (1954). The Tala is the goof on the monitor, he rules all of Astron Delta, the planet where these pathetic space killers come from...
2024-11-04 09:20:03 +0000 UTC View PostToo many social media sites, too few memory cells.
Paul Yellovich and I will be doing a live hangout on Youtube later today for the Halloween season. Once again we'll be joined by our guest Scott Dorward (Blasphemous Tomes/Good Friends of Jackson Elias podcasts, Call of Cthulhu RPG scenari...
2024-10-30 06:16:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Another old convention sketch, once again courtesy of Matt Powers. Gin!
I'm surprised the Sharpie lines haven't broken down as much as I've seen in some other old convention drawings. I wish I never used Sharpies back then, they often faded, and when they fade they turn green or blue. Yikes...
2024-10-27 00:26:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Slowly but surely.
Got two wrist braces now, chugga-chugga-chug.
2024-10-21 00:32:44 +0000 UTC View Post
We have new ELTINGVILLE CLUB t-shirt/sticker designs in our TeePublic shop.
The designs use the pin-up splash pages of the four characters taken from the Dark Horse Comics hardcover collection. The "favorite shit" text is included in the designs (unlike these placeholder images). Sarah is...
2024-10-16 21:50:22 +0000 UTC View Post
Some of you will remember the Hacktober drawings I did for Halloween a few years ago. I only got eleven of them finished (as usual, I started putting too much detail in and didn't have time to work on more of them).
Tonight I found an unfinished rough sketch of this guy from CHILDREN SHOUL...
2024-10-13 08:16:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Back on the backlogged commissions while trying to finish a very late cover (that's being a pain in the ass, even though it's my own characters. A matter of trying too hard, I think).
This very late commission is 10" x 13", inked with Tombow calligraphy pens, Pitt brush pen, rapidographs. ...
2024-10-10 19:40:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Sent to me by Matt Powers, who I follow on Instagram (@mattctnt) where he posts wonderful pictures from the Blue Bell Foundation For Cats (@bluelbellcats) where he volunteers. I am in love with all the cats there and hope to name a few of the Swifties from Beasts of Burden after some of them. Cla...
2024-10-09 22:09:43 +0000 UTC View Post
This is my rough sketch for the back wall section of Joe's comic shop. I knew I was putting more detail and texture into the shop roughs than would translate to the actual background art, but I figured if I went crazy on it more of it would survive in the pilot. And they did keep a lot of the des...
2024-10-09 19:40:48 +0000 UTC View Post
I know the images portray the silent movie indications of a heart attack rather than a stroke, but some things you chalk up to artistic license. Actual strokes don't sell the joke. I also realize this is a morbid subject for discuss cartooning process.
So, why Batman? Well, this involved a...
2024-10-08 20:15:47 +0000 UTC View Post
I put a new set of Welcome to Eltingville production art up on eBay if anyone is interested.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/256665238897
2024-10-04 20:02:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Above: process on the Where Monsters Lie variant.
1) Rough layout in red pencil, pencil.
2) Working on the background, using the blown-up rough on the lightpad.
3) Laying in the pencils off the lightpad.
4) Finished pencils
5) Finished inks
6) Colors by Sarah...
2024-10-02 22:52:41 +0000 UTC View Post
This is floating around in solicitation and pre-order for online, so I can finally show it off. Colors by Sarah Dyer.
When I read through the PDF of the first issue I was taken with Mr. Wrinkly, I thought he'd fit in with the kind of twisty-stretchy-fleshy bit I've been doing with the "Expe...
2024-09-27 04:23:23 +0000 UTC View Post
After a prolonged delay, here's the latest installment of the ongoing WORLD'S FUNNEST retrospective. This time we're looking at the Super Friends/Hanna-Barbera segment, illustrated by Jay Stephens, colored by Lee Loughridge and lettered by Tom Orzechowski.
This section of the story was prob...
2024-09-25 03:57:19 +0000 UTC View Post
This is the original art for page three from the zombie crawl story, "They're Dead, They're All Messed Up". I scanned it before packing it up for a customer.
This has some of my favorite artwork from the series. The only Eltingville page I currently plan on keeping is the title page for it....
2024-09-18 21:15:06 +0000 UTC View Post
"Wednesday is Prince Spaghetti Day!" shouldn't be the last jumbled thought in your bleeding head before you die. But what can you do? Life's messy.
2024-09-17 21:30:45 +0000 UTC View Post
We're back in the house as of Friday. Still have a lot of cleaning and sanitizing to do. Tomorrow we find out what the repairs are going to cost and how much we'll owe my folks, who are fronting us the money. Then the fight with the insurance company begins. Everyone's very tired and the house is...
2024-09-16 00:31:01 +0000 UTC View Post
New eBay auction - original color drawing of Jerry Stokes from The Eltingville Club.
See the auction here, thanks for looking, thanks for any and all bids:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/256638168883
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2024-09-13 23:33:22 +0000 UTC View Post
We hit another patch of bad luck with the plumbing repair because the repaving in our neighborhood continued on Tuesday, so we had to postpone the appointment with the plumbers and they can't come until tomorrow (Thursday). The jackhammer supposedly starts jackhammering around 7:30 in the morning...
2024-09-12 03:30:15 +0000 UTC View PostI will have limited use of my home studio and equipment for the next few days, at least until Tuesday, due to the sewage/plumbing situation in our house. The city is doing road repairs on Monday in our neighborhood so the people fixing the broken pipe can't park close enough to function. So, Tues...
2024-09-06 20:38:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Whelp, our plumbing problem took a turn for the worse, to the point where Sarah has booked a hotel room because we have no water. There's a broken sewer pipe below our house, which I guess is good news in that it's not outside the house, and our insurance will supposedly cover the jackhammering o...
2024-09-06 01:47:26 +0000 UTC View Post
There's going to be block party in Brooklyn this Saturday with live music, DJs and vendors. The vendors include a bunch of cartoonists, including myself. I really don't have anything to sell, no books or comics in stock, but I'll be sitting with everyone and I'll bring pens and index cards and do...
2024-09-05 01:26:44 +0000 UTC View Post