And the first shall be last and the last shall be first. I did this 39 years ago to try to produce a beautiful design with texture. I succeeded enough to hold on to it all this time. There is a bit of surrealism in the work, trying to find out for yourself what constitutes “beauty” deep within one’s mental circuitry. Really. I am not kidding.
I did this around 1973. I cut up a zinc plate, treated it with acid, rubbed it with black ink then spread red ink on the top. I placed them on the paper randomly and put the paper through an etching press. I have always been happy with the design it generated. Here it is, for the world to see, for the first time.
This is my latest. I usually have my work critiqued before putting it up here. This time I am taking a chance.
Not long ago, comics were coloured by using a small number of very specific colours, obtained by mixing set percentages of red, yellow and blue. That system has been virtually abandoned in favour of the freer system of computer colouring. Some artists, though, still like using that system, thinking that when it was done well, it had its own special charm. The next five pages are coloured with that system.
This is page six from “Geek of the Gods”. Pages one through ten of that strip, some in elaborate colour, some in black and white, can be found by going back a page or two.
The colours are completely flat, and in the future, depending on how (and if) this strip gets published, I will be able to modify the images without a problem.
You can see this image a few pages back but in black and white. Thanks to TUMBLR I had the first five pages published and expected to have the remainder of the strip, The Geek of the Gods, serialized. Sadly, the publication went out of print after the first five pages. I coloured the next five and they appear here in colour for the first time.
Rick drew it; I coloured it.
I have had the good fortune to collaborate with R.G.Taylor on several occasions. This image was drawn for the story “Growing up with Comics”, published in the comic book Negative Burn and in the eponymous graphic novel. The image was published in Black and White. At this point, it is the only picture on this site not created by me.
This is a photo of my painting of Gabriel Morrissette with Gabriel Morrissette. It gives you an idea of scale and of how close I got to the likeness.
