In the mid-Seventies Marvel started putting dialogue balloons on their covers, and using staff artists like Marie Severin and Jim Mooney to draw them. Boy, was I torqued off. So I drew this cover for my zine Cascade Comix Monthly #7, September, 1978. Get it? Whatever. This was drawn on coquille board, a textured illustration paper that cartoonists sometimes use to get halftone effects without the problems (background, fuzzy lines) of screening art. It makes inking kind of hard, but oh baby those shading effects! Hey, I'm starting to sound like one of those other featured comic book artists! Wah!
At some point in the dim, dark past, I was an aspiring fan artist. Or maybe a perspiring fan artist--yeah, that too. I must have gotten illoes like this one pubbed in about 50 different fanzines. Yeah, I wanted to work for Marvel. This is a pencil sketch for one of those spot illoes. |
