"Bathos Revisited"

2014 Crawlin' Towards Us...

2014 is almost here...

"Tis The Season To Be Jolly..."

And of course, Christmas is also the time for self-doubt, guilt and some good old fashioned Angst...

But that isn't a reason not to draw rude cartoons...

Ain't It True.../Nerds Lost in Space...

Sketchbook drawings. The one below was going to be in colour too. But I didn't think it was "working". I posted it as below on Facebook and people preferred it to the other stuff that I posted at the time. You just can't tell..!

What's She Sayin'..?

We don't know! But, I bet she's wondering why you all are hanging around here when you could visit my Steve Gibson Cartoonist / Writer page over on Facebook and see a HUGE Gallery of this kind of stuff!!!

"ZONGO!"

Every now & again I look at Bode's colour strips (eg, Deadbone, the Cheech Wizard's from Nat Lampoon & Purple Pictography) and I try to design a bunch of characters with that sort of approach in mind...

"Flash in the Pan"

A couple of years ago I roughed out the blue pencil rough, as posted below, on "Blue line A4 Manga paper".

I wasn't pleased with the lettering, so I "shelved" it & found it the other day when looking for something to ink. I laid a sheet of tracing paper over the rough & re-lettered with Uni-Pin fine line markers & inked over the blue pencil lines with a Dalon brush & black W&N ink. I used grey Letraset Pro-Markers on the back like an old animation cell for the tones.

And, I always liked Flash Gordon. The Buster Crabbe serials were shown at a local cinema when I was a kid. But it's the Kurtzman/Wood MAD parody that infuses the approach to this comic page...