Eh. Human Torch. He’s dead. Spoilers. My guess: He’ll be back in about 11 months, right around the time that the Fantastic Four comic would have reached issue #600.
032 – Human Torch
031 – Silber
My friend Brian John Mitchell is kind of a jackass, but he’s a loveable one. He’s also super talented, extremely ambitious and the single most productive human being I’ve ever met. He owns and operates his own record label/comic publishing/web-zine empire called Silber Media. I think he’s also in 38 different bands, he’s constantly touring and constantly making the tiniest comic books in existence.
Among his comics are: Lost Kisses, Just a Man, Worms, XO, Mecha and many others, including Cops & Crooks, of which I drew half. I’m also currently wrapping up another comic I’m drawing for him called Monthly. I’m drawing it out of spite. However, I’m in good company with other books drawn by Kurt Dinse, Jason Young and some dude named Dave Sim.
Brian recently interviewed 209 cartoonists and comic artists, including myself. I can guarantee you I have the dickiest responses amongst the thousands of folks he questioned. Check those out here.
Brian had asked me to draw all the listeners of my podcast. I told him he wasn’t allowed to request anything anymore. But, here’s a representation of him and his company and logo.
030 – The Spectre
This did not turn out as I had hoped. I was able to channel my inner Burne Hogarth a little, though.
John Ostrander and Tom Mandrake’s Spectre is one of the most underrated comics ever published, and it’s criminal that DC a) has never properly reprinted the book and b) soiled the character with Hal Jordan.
Crispus Allen is a fine Spectre, though. I have no idea if he still is the host or not.
029 – Peter Parker
I might try to draw more superhero secret identities. We’ll see.
028 – White Trash Green Arrow and Black Canary
Ok, so let’s get this out of the way, first. I love Green Arrow. I’m a huge fan of Mike Grell’s run, the legendary Denny O’Neill/Neal Adams revamp, and apparently the only person who thought Judd Winick did a great job in his short run. I even really dig Chuck Dixon’s run, especially the Connor Hawke issues. I dig Ollie. I think he’s great, I’ve even drawn him before.
With that said, I started doodling a trucker looking dude on a post-it note, and with the glasses, trucker hat and beard, I realized it kinda looked like Green Arrow with his Robin Hood hat, mask and goatee. A White Trash Green Arrow.
Folks, I’m a fucking genius, is what I’m getting at here. See, there’s nothing about G.A. that isn’t White Trash! He’s got like 59 illegitimate children, one of ’em who got hooked on smack, had his own illegitimate kid, slept with his “mother” (Black Canary) and then lost his arm, becoming a criminal after keeping a dead cat. Ollie’s other “kid” has HIV and was a child prostitute. Connor turned out okay. Ollie is also in a semi-abusive relationship with Black Canary and they keep going back to each other despite the fact that perhaps it would be better if they didn’t. So B.C. gets the White Trash treatment too.
Also, I’ve received an official request for a Black Canary. This isn’t it. I’ll draw a proper Dinah later.
Finally, I had thought of adding a White Trash Green Lantern to round out a White Trash Hard Traveling Heroes. But White Trash Hal Jordan ain’t gonna wear no fairy ring.
027 – Zombie
I’ssa zombie. Oddly enough, I just started playing Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare. Western zombies. I’m a little rattled right now.
Ok, PANIC!: Garfield
This is a shitty joke at the expense of my friend Pat Kain. I know some people got it. Believe it or not, I sold the lineart for this.
026 – Barney Miller
Barney Miller was always a favorite show of mine as a kid and still really holds up.
025 – Li’l Dexter
My friend and I were discussing inappropriate cartoons based on movies or tv shows that were clearly made for adults (Rambo, RoboCop, etc.) and during the conversation, I thought of Li’l Dexter. I’d been wanting to draw a Dexter related post for years, but I am terrible at likenesses. This seemed like a perfect opportunity.
The concept: Harry and Dexter Morgan are out hunting when they discover a crashed alien spaceship. Only Harry and Dex find the pilot, an alien called The Dark Passenger. They take him in, and have to hide him from Dex’s little sister, the stuck-up, bratty Deb. The Dark Passenger takes a liking to little Dexter and always winds up convincing Dex to do bad things and get up to hi-jinks, while Harry always has to clean up the situations, and teaches Dex a valuable lesson in the process – a code, of sorts.
I think we have a winner. Somebody bring back Saturday morning cartoons, pronto!
024 – Battalion
Just wanted to draw one of the most ridiculous obscure ’90s comic character I could find. In an earlier post, I mentioned that DC Comics published some of the best books they’ve ever had during this period. They also published some of the worst. Hi, Team Titans! That’s where this abomination sprung from.