Tuesday, February 26, 2013

LONG TIME TENANTS OF THE FIELD MUSEUM

 
 
 
Speaking at Columbia College's wonderful TV department last week, I took time out to visit Chicago's Field Museum.  Normally on such an occasion, I like to draw pictures of the exotic patrons and museum-goers but there were subjects at the museum that held a pose, no matter how long you took to draw them.  In fact, some haven't moved in, like, a hundred years.  The three pictured here, Sue the T-Rex, the skeletal architecture of Gorilla Gorilla and a nameless wild boar, were a few of my favorites.

Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Before you could text for help...

 
An editorial illustration I did for the University of Southern California's paper, The Daily Trojan.  I can't recall what the accompanying article was exactly, as most students -- even when I went there for one year -- tried like crazy to get in.

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

LIFE LESSON #37 (or "be cool, stay in school")

College-bound youth of the world, consider yourselves warned --
if you want to maintain a decent GPA, pay attention and take legible notes in class. 
The accompanying jumble of writing and drawings (but mostly drawings)
are actual notes from one of my University of Minnesota notebooks.
Amazingly enough, somehow or other, I did manage to graduate.
 




Tuesday, January 29, 2013

WATCH OUT, IT'S MOVING...

I strung together a bunch of panels from 12 O'Clock Somewhere and cut them to a cool cover of Funeral for a Marionette by my brother Jonathan's jazz quartet The Aurora Club.  True-blue visitors to this site will recognize a few of the panels, but there are lots more (like the one above) in store. 

Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Boy, oh boy, Boy Boy

One of the doodles I did while working on 13 GRAVES. Boy Boy did not appear in the pilot. Colored with my ever-trusty Corel Painter 11.

Wednesday, January 16, 2013

WEIRD SCIENCE COMICS? NOT EXACTLY...

No, not THE weird Science comics published by EC back in the 50's, but comic book covers I did for WEIRD SCIENCE, the USA TV series. Military afficionado big brother Chett (Lee Tergesen) was big into comics and a couple of episodes called for some specific titles for the storyline. I did these in watercolor and markers... and perhaps the most generic typeface computerdom had to offer in the early nineties. My son Laird would reprimand me for Captain Invincible's saying, "Poisonous snake" when in fact he should say, "Venomous snake."

Wednesday, January 9, 2013

CHIMPS OF USC

When I was enrolled at USC I was an illustrator for The Daily Trojan, the campus paper.  I started a comic strip and I drew illios and cartoons and one such venture slammed the new, big calendar showcasing studly guys enrolled at the school.  Theirs was titled LOOKING GOOD, the men of USC.  My version had a different title... 

Tuesday, January 1, 2013

HERE'S TO 2013!

As the site address and the artist's name suggest, I had nothing to with this execept that I thought it was hilarious... and is a perfect post for the new year. 

For the confused, look up 'thylacine' on wikipedia and the joke falls into place.