Lame title, I agree. Anyway:
Category: Drawings (Page 16 of 19)
Non-symmetrical, “less-than-perfect” people constitute a drawing person’s gefundenes fressen — they shine in ink. Goodlooking, “symmetrical” people — you know the kind you tend to see in the tabloids — are a bore to draw (and quite possibly a bore to have for company altogether). Their features are bland, their expression indistinctive, their succes a pitiful outcome of lowest common denominator marketing-think. Unless. Unless a certain ethereal quality sets them apart. That particular je ne sais quoi — it doesn’t happen often, but when it does…
Debby Harry
Frank Zappa
The Big Note, a Frank Zappa eZine of which I am an executive editor, will be featuring one of my early comics in their upcoming edition. It’s all pretty puerile and rudimentarily drawn, yet funny in a twisted sort of a fashion, or so I hope. Caution before you click: explicitnicity abounds…
A while ago, due to a broken wrist, I was forced to take the bus to work. There were some interesting characters that ended up in my sketchbook — here’s a couple of them:
This guy seemed to have a bit of a mental problem. You know the forever-smiling-into-the-distance guy? Yeah, that.
More people… The busdriver in particular looked like he was about to make an end to his life — every morning.
Housewife on her way to shop, shy girl, loudmouthing homeless person.
The “I’m an intellectual, leave me alone” man and a cute, relaxed black girl.
Oh and the wrist is fine again now, thank you.
A couple of years ago I had this idea for a comic strip about one Tom Baxter, treasure hunter and Indiana Jones type character in the early thirties of the last century. The twist being of course that this Baxter guy was an idiot who goes “crikey” and “by Jove!” ad nauseam. His nemesis was to be Inspector Dexter, sort of the Bezu Fache of the stories. I also made it a point to have each character’s name end in “xter”, as it seems like every single Brit in the 30s had a name like that. Anyway, the thing never got off the ground — although I did make the above one-pager. Warning before you click through: semi-naked women ahead!