Companion Pieces Preview

In my previous post about my "Dirty Comics" submission, I mentioned I'd written it originally as part of a letter to a friend, but there were other related pages; so I thought I'd clean them up and post them here. But as happens this time of year I've been busy cooking, cleaning and doing things around the house that need to be done. Not that I need an excuse nor do I want to seem too fastidious, but I've also spent a lot of time using Tumblr, Facebook and Google Reader. Wasting time really, as I have better things to do than scroll through porn, assault my friends "walls" with aimless comments and catch up on blogs that I like to follow. 

As always, I justify everything I do recreation-ally as "doing research". Anyway, these images will end showing up smaller and with less detail in the final, because they will be accompanying words, but I wanted them to have more punch. At some point I'll get back to posting sketchbook pages.

The Mad Violinist part 5—promotional designs

Having posted this spring about an unrealized animation project, I was inspired to clean up two of the sketches and offer them as promotional items. Here is Erich Zann as the crazed musician the protagonist encounters in the garret on the top floor above his apartment.

Self portrait?

I wanted to illustrate the phrase "Read my lips" with this stylized self-portrait. Unfortunately I wasn't too flattered by my attempt to illustrate my personal "look". I imagine I had the exaggerated and smooth lines of the Rolling Stones' logo in mind.

Wikipedia tells me that was the work of designer John Pasche, who has done extensive work designing album and singles covers for the music industry, notably several Art of Noise covers that I remember from my early twenties, working at KUOI, the college radio station in Moscow, Idaho, back in the late Eighties. All the same, there is much to recommend this sketch, perhaps I'll re-do-it.