Fast!

Last week's Illustration Friday was "fast". I started this as my submission, but then other things came along and I ran out of time. Maybe I'll finish it in the future. 

Fast food! Get it? (insert drum roll here)

Busy Busy

I've been busy coloring someone else's work. hope to post something new of my own soon. 

aaron 

Turner Classic Movies Called. They Want Their Costumes Back.

To me, the last good season of the Simpsons was probably back in 1997 or '98. After that, its been kind of hit and miss, and seems to be  lacking some of the heart the earlier seasons had. For a long time it seemed like every episode was directed at showing Homer in some kind of physical humor gag or zany adventure, discounting many of the rich supporting characters the show had developed. Thank god that seems to be, for the most part, over. 

Still, I tune in every sunday to see what befalls the Simpsons clan this week. Partly out of old habit, and partly to see if this week's episode is any better than the last. 

This past week's episode was the annual Treehouse of Horror episode. In the opener, Nelson tells the classic Warner Bros monsters that their outfits are outdated. The monsters respond by dressing up in current halloween trendy costumes. The thing that made me giggle the most was Frankenstein, dressed in a Sponge Bob costume. It looked so absurd. I loved the idea of ol' Frank wandering around on Halloween dressed as Sponge Bob so much, that I decided to throw together the above drawing. All in all a quick drawing, but fun to do something so fresh in my mind, that made me laugh. 

Illustration Friday: Frozen

Free Fried Chicken!

Apologies to Sid Haig, wherever you are. 

Just trying to learn some new tricks in photoshop. Not sure if it's 100% successful. Took longer than it should have, because, as usual, I did things the hard way. I wanted it to look like a old worn coupon or flyer. Feels like it's still missing something. 

I'm probably alone on this, but I don't mind Rob Zombie's film making attempts. His movies aren't my favorite horror films by any stretch of the imagination, but they're decent popcorn movies. I appreciate what he's trying to do. And I feel like it was a logical step for him to take, post music career wise, considering his influences.  

Captain Spaulding appears in Zombie's first two filmmaking forays...House of 1000 Corpses, and Devils Rejects. 

I See Demons!!!

Here is the color version of Jack Kirby's Demon. Somewhere, posted below is the pencil sketch for this piece. Not the best thing I've done lately, but a good exercise for practice. In trying to keep in line with my "halloween theme" I decided to work on this today. 

Here's a horrible secret. When I was a kid, I just didn't 'get' Kirby. Hard to believe, but true. My first exposure to Kirby would have been through old Marvel reprints. His work seemed so blocky, his men seemed ugly, and his women seemed uglier than his men. I was a Ditko man through and through. Ditko's work seemed so velvety smooth...Kirby's, coarse. 

The first Kirby work I really got into, in my early teens, was The Demon. Someone gave me an old issue, and I took to it right away. But I couldn't really appreciate Kirby until my early twenties, when I really started to look at the man's work and see how wonderful, exciting and truly prolific it really was. And of course, as soon as I saw his Big Barda, I changed my position on his women being "ugly".  I really, really love his work during the 70's, more so than his other eras. I know he was more prolific during the sixties, and his eighties work never quite achieved its full potential, but his seventies comics were fun, crazy, and experimentally explosive. He seemed to enjoy making these comics as much as I enjoy reading them.  

 

All Work and No Play Make Homer Go Something Something...

Here's Johnny! 

The Shining is one of my all time favorite scary movies. Here is a piece inspired by the film's end.  I also had the old Mad magazine parody of this movie in my head while I was working on it, which would have been my first exposure to it as a kid. I used to love Mort Drucker and Angelo Torres work on the magazine's movie strips. Probably Drucker more so than Torres. For some reason I think Torres did the art on the parody of this though. 

I used to watch the Shining every Halloween. I haven't done that in awhile. Kubrick is a master at creating suspense through mood, color and music. I can't believe they remade it with that guy from Wings.