Author: Gerhard

Charles sent me these sketch covers

on which he had Tick creator Ben Edlund do a couple of sketches

behind which I was to do backgrounds.

I thought that they were a little too rough and ‘sketchy’

to try to integrate them into a background

and there is always the problem of what to do with the signatures.

Charles had supplied me with some reference material

including a photo of Ben Edlund.

So here’s what I came up with:

…nyuck, nyuck, nyuck…

Alfonso, of Studio Comix Press,

had printed out some really old public domain comics

and thought it might be fun to redo the covers.

He was right.

Here’s the original:

and here’s my version:

Here’s another one:

and my take on it:

Okay, that’s enough of that…

back to work.

CB sent me this piece that Dave did back in 2010:

I couldn’t really add any more to the back ground, so I came up with this:

I still have to colour it. That may take a while.

I have a bunch of things I want to colour at the same time and I have to finish a few first.

Here’s a portrait of Jeff’s sister’s doggies:

And a fun one for David:

Okay… NOW what’s next?

Here is a drawing by Geoff Darrow that Benno wanted me to add a background to:

Here are my pencils:

My inks on the background:

And then I added some shading to the figures:

…okay… what’s next?

Clint asked me to do another illustration for his Fiddler’s Green Peculiar Parish Magazine.

Here’s the pencil version:

…and the inked version:

I’ll post order info when we get nearer to publication.