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. 

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.

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."

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... 

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.