I guess I was getting bored with the airbrush! For any Golden Age Green Hornet fans, you’ll recognize this composition, inspired by Alex Schomburg’s wonderful cover to Green Hornet # 17 from 1944. A prolific and sought-after cover artist at the time, Schomburg did several classic GH covers in the ’40s.
This cover was originally painted for a fun and esoteric little monster comic called Creepsville. At the time, I didn’t think we had the rights to use Bettie Page’s likeness, so I kinda’ fudged it. Years later, I decided to rework it to look more like her… for my own entertainment. Here’s to you, Bettie! …
Toward the end of my years at TSR, I worked with Flint Dille to develop a “New-Retro” look for his family’s jewel: Buck Rogers. The company developed a board game, and I did the front and back cover artwork for the box. This is a reworked version of the back cover.
One weekend, I brought several comic artist friends to Lake Geneva to do a “concept jam.” Somewhere, there is a drawer-full of some really amazing Buck Rogers concept drawings that never saw the light of day. This painting was inspired by the classic work of Buck Rogers and DC Comics artist, Murphy Anderson
I hadn’t been a big fan of Mr. T or The A Team TV show. Around the time I painted this cover, I had the chance to hang out with Mr. T at a comic book trade show. He couldn’t have been a nicer guy to me and my family! Needless to say, I became …
My memory is a little fuzzy with some of these drawings. I’m not sure where this drawing ended up. But what I do know is that dragons are always popular images. So, how can you lose if you take dragons and anthropomorphize them?
Every so often an artistic collaboration really clicks! I penciled a set of Conan module interiors (this image and the next) and turned them over to my studio mate and buddy, Jeff Easley. What he did with them was incredible! You can’t see the margin notes, left by a production artist. It says “WOW! Va-Va …
While my own inking is very linear and more traditional to comic books, Jeff Easley’s approach is very pointilistic and is more about value and volume. My jaw dropped when I saw Jeff’s inks on these drawings. It looked as if Virgil Finlay had taken control of Jeff’s drawing hand!
Les Dorscheid is an old artist-buddy and colleague. We used to play a lot of basketball. He’s been at Raven forever! We actually broke into comics together. He was the long-time colorist for The Badger and Nexus. When I arrived at Raven, Les was the art director for Hexen II Mission Pack. He had me …
There are so many pages from Sting that I could’ve included. This one is special because it was my way of thanking Jack Kirby for the years of wonder and excitement he provided me as a kid. An important event in the history of comics occurs just outside of our panels. And it takes place …