A Jewel in the Rain
A family trip to a flea market in late spring, out in the fast-blooming countryside northwest of Toronto; I’m trolling the motley jumble of the old and forgotten, as raindrops splatter. Flipping through toppling piles of moldy old books (their ignoble end in most cases well-deserved), my eye suddenly spots and my hand leaps for a rare treasure: an assembly of Punch cartoons!
In the book (“The Best Cartoons from Punch”, Simon and Schuster, 1952), I discovered the jewel shown below, by someone whom I’d never heard of before, Douglas Lionel Mays…what a pleasure, in this age of shameless hyberbole, when the gnarliest unstructured jottings by the wet-behind-the-ears are touted as the Next Coming of Comic Art, to be reminded of what consummate craftsmanship truly is!
An image which repays prolonged study.
Sandman Color Art
I’ve uploaded the color art to the Sandman story previously posted…
Cardsharks
These are a couple of cartoons from a job I did a while back. I believe they were vectorized and then taken further and used as part of a web site design…in this case I was acting as “raw-art-supplier!”
Sandman Comic Pages
I’ve posted a new gallery of line art from a story I did for DC Comics/Vertigo, a while back now! It’s sans type so you get the pantomine version for now, but later I’ll post the colored version too, which has the word balloons. It was written by Steve Seagle; as I recall he wrote it in a “Mister X” kind of vein, catering to my love for weird futuristic art deco cities and a film noir sort of look.
Street Stuff
This was one of series of doodles, from a while back–just having fun, playing with stuff you might find in a futuristic city. As I recall, I’d just bought one of those Rotring Artpen fountain pens, and was taking it for a test drive…
More Anatomy
Following up from my earlier post, here are more anatomy drawings from an older sketchbook…
Batman Animated BG Design
This is from 1997, a colorized version (original done in grayscale) of a background design for the Warner Brothers series. It shows backstage at an old/abandoned movie theatre…
Creepy Fun II
It’s the old there’s-a-werewolf-lurking-in-the-basement scenario…
