WHO'S UP FOR A SWIM... IN LAKE DEATH?

 

I missed posting this on Arbor Day proper, an entry that needs a little explaining -- In an episode of WEIRD SCIENCE Gary and Wyatt get stuck in their favorite slasher film and artwork was needed for the VHS(!) box.  This was one of my suggestions, though in retrospect I feel the style in which I did it was way too ARCHIE COMICS.   

THUMPER STICKER

Many moons ago, when my good friend Steve Burbidge was accepted to med school at the University of Minnesota, I had this brainstorm of an idea for a bumper sticker.  The 'I [heart] MY DOG -- MY CAT -- MY KID etc.' bumper sticker craze had just hatched and was catching on fast, so my idea was a natural.  I did worry that, in order to get the visual joke, people would have to drive close enough up... and crash into the car ahead. 

OUTCAST SEASON ONE PREMIERE!

OUTCAST season one has begun on Cinemax, with new episodes airing on Friday nights (and rerunning all week long.)  This a writers room white board rendition of the official poster...

TIME TRAVEL VIA AN OLD COMIC STRIP

When I attended USC I was an illustrator/cartoonist for the campus paper The Daily Trojan... you can tell how long ago that was by noting that the subject of the above cartoon, the Sony Walkman, was the cool, new tech gadget at colleges.  My favorite little thing is how the prof drops his piece of chalk... (also old school --  literally.)

REAPER - RE-POSSESSED!

 

Not storyboards technically, but an image sequence to explain how I envisioned the spirit of a chain-saw wielding serial killer exits the body of the nebbishy character Greg.  From the aptly titled REAPER episode Greg, Schmeg, written by me and Chris Black.

WELCOME TO MINNESOTA!

 

I did these post college and before I started in advertising.  I like the "fall in love with a loon" in particular because the lines have a nice uneven quality -- I may have used brush and ink instead of my go-to Sharpie Marker... plus how the flannel-shirted guy is staring PAST the loon, possibly stoned and unaware the bird's even there...

MAX PERLICH 2006

In 2006, during the pilot shoot of 13 GRAVES I drew this picture of cast member Max Perlich scooting around on his skateboard.     http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001611/

WEIRD SCIENCE COFFEE ANYONE?

 

As the lead characters in WEIRD SCIENCE were not of drinking age, we had them hang out at a coffee shop whilst not in school.  It already had been named JAVA MAN! so all I had to come up with was the logo

FORGET BATMAN v SUPERMAN... LET'S WATCH THESE TWO DUKE IT OUT

 

MICKEY v HARRY-- THE DAWN of ADMISSION NUMBERS...

 

With the big opening of HARRY POTTER WORLD at Universal Studios Los Angeles, Disneyland is up against some super competition.  

CALLING ALL COP-YRIGHTS!

Back at the University of Minnesota, there was a West Bank bar called DICK TRACY'S SALOON and we at the MN Daily Creative Department did up ads for them, using my drawings of the Chester Gould comic strip characters.  Copyright infringement?  Who cared?  Eventually the syndicate that owned the comic strip cared -- enough so that the bar's name was changed to TRACY'S SALOON.  Which meant the place needed a new mascot -- copyright free -- and I came up with this guy...