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.

023 – Lockjaw


Fulfilling a request from Kurt Dinse, he had asked for Lockjaw, the teleporting dog from Marvel Comics’ The Inhumans. I think Kurt was deliberately trying to make me struggle. If there’s one thing I struggle with more than anatomy, backgrounds, coloring, details, likenesses, proportion, perspective, consistency, inking, penciling, the female form, faces, eyes, hands, feet, shading, layout, clothing, inanimate objects or plants is animals. That said, I kinda dig the way Lockjaw turned out here. He looks like a petable dog.

As for Kurt, he is ridiculously talented artist in his own right. He is the publisher/writer/artist of One Year in Indiana, the saga of death metal vocalist Conrad Lant and the year he spent living in Indiana between tours on a college campus. It’s a fantastic comic about beer, college douchebags, monsters and idiots. He is also the artist of the comic Hurr and Star.

I stumbled onto Kurt’s work at the annual SPACE convention in Columbus, Ohio. I’m an idiot metalhead and saw the pentagram logo of One Year and needed to buy it. Through means that I am not completely aware of, Kurt became a listener of my podcast, and eventually a guy I now consider a friend. I have been drunk in his company, and if that isn’t a basis for friendship, I don’t what is.

Kurt is also the newest member to the art collective I am a part of, Ok, PANIC!. As of this writing, he only has one piece up, but it’s a pretty fantastic debut. Kurt’s other works (comics, rock posters, etc.) can be found at Pungent Basement Art.

For giggles, here’s a piece of art my pal Jason commissioned from Kurt for my birthday about a year or two ago.

As you can see, Kurt is the King of Stippling. At once, I admire and do not envy his ability to do that so well. Go check out his site, he’s awesome.

022 – Havok


Havok was always a favorite X-Men character, and I’ve hated every single costume of his except for the original. Neal Adams is a legend for a reason.

021 – The Thing


So yeah, that’s why I don’t do much stippling. Tiring.

The above was drawn back in 1995 by a friend of mine by the name of Matt Lukacs. We had a bunch of art classes together in high school, and shopped at the same comic store. I asked him if I could ink his drawing. He was super talented and I wish he was doing stuff now. Me, I ruined his Thing drawing with my shitty shitty inking work, and for whatever reason, I hand drew the world’s worst Thing logo. But man, back in 1995, I thought I was the king of all comic art.

I’m an idiot.

020 – Supergirl


Too much black in the drawing, kind of sloppy. I’m really out of practice drawing female characters. I should try to rectify that.