Milt Windell

Here's an old portrait of Milton Windell, founder and CEO of WC. It was drawn by one of his original employees, Lonk Davis, during the company's heyday. It's interesting to look at a more figurative type of drawing done by Davis given that he's more renowned for his big-eyed cartoon characters like Honcho and Gestapo Goose.

Clear Lines

Here's another clear line composition that pretty much sums up the way I insist on doing everything right now. By keeping the surfaces and the lines uniform you end up with a flat, sterile look that I really like. Someone described it as being very instruction-manually, and that sounds about right. One of my favourite books is my mothers old nurses textbook. It's chock-full of clear line illustrations on cheery stuff like how to apply catheters and bandages and so on. The drawings are spare and purely functional but I absolutely love them.

The Guv'nor

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4wh_mc8hRE&feature=rec-fresh

more...stuff

These are samples from a 4-pager that's part of a one-off comic that will be printed sometime around next February or March. It's going to be like the bible code, except with sequential art and a healthy sense of irreverence.

TWO NEW PANELS...

TELL BECKY I'LL BE DOWN IN A MINUTE!!!

New Portraits.

"To my mind, most tables are too big and they're too high"

David Lynch said that, not me.

The Best Band in the World!

Oktobre heraldes muchas imaginumus mythologicus allegoricanus...

Today is the first day of October. This is probably my favourite month in the whole year because the days really start to get colder and shorter and Halloween is coming.

While I don't particularly like seeing rows and rows of pumpkins and zombie masks cluttering up shop shelves way in advance of the festival (commodification makes everything look and feel the same) it still remains a much-loved time of the year for me.

Samhain reminds you to revel in that twilight area where everything becomes cloudy and mysterious. So, here's to the summer's end and the celebratory spit-roasting of first born infants in the sacrificial flames of the Hallow tide.