Gerhard Art

Chapter 6 page 2 of ‘The Smile of the Absent Cat’. Story by Grant Morrison. To be collected as a 48-page volume sometime in the not-too-distant future.

Page one of chapter six of ‘The Smile of the Absent Cat’. Seven more to go.

Story by Grant Morrison. To be published by Heavy Metal… someday.

Chapter 6 pages 4 & 5 of The Smile of the Absent Cat:

Gettin’ close to The End now!!!

Still plugging away at the 6th and final chapter of ‘The Smile of the Absent Cat’. Here are a couple of examples:

Okay… back to the old drawing board.

Pencils are done for chapter 6. Here are some selected panels:

On to the inking and waiting for final edits from Grant.

I got a very nice comment from Derek Gray on the Dec 11 blog post:

“Absolutely gorgeous, and a superb illustration of Grant’s script. Just reading his description was enough to give me a stress headache!“

Thanks Derek, I really appreciate it. My first reaction to reading the script for that panel was, “Oh… okay… uhmm… wait — what?!!?”

For most of the pages I have one Photoshop file for the layout. Some I have two, maybe three versions. That page, I have eleven.

Here’s another finished page (minus the word balloons) from chapter 5:

I believe it’s in issue 296 of Heavy Metal. Which I believe is in stores now. I don’t know for sure. Nobody tells me anything.