Happy V Day

A belated Valentine's message...

B-Bot-Boy

Imaginary Relationships

Since I plan to get back on track with my little comic strip narrative, I thought I'd post some of my developmental sketches. This is a loose relationship chart linking all the characters together. As you can see, I'm getting kinda' ambitious with this. I want to flesh out the whole universe of their warped little world. I'm a big fan of mythology and magical creatures and space aliens and robots, so I decided if I'm going to create a little world, it's going to involve all of my clashing fascinations. With a strip title like "Mythfits", I feel obliged to make opposites attract. I'm eager to induce all the meet and greets...even if it takes me a while.

Let's talk about feelings

Something smells funny...

Poo is back

Well, it was OBVIOUS that I had to continue the adventure of this little turd. He appeared earlier, but now he's going to have his own little story.

Little Ditties

A Doomed Relationship?

A Match Made In Heaven?

Dance

...Then a robot appeared.

Note: first panel best viewed while imagining Richard Strauss's "Also sprach Zarathustra" (from 2001: A Space Odyssey) playing in your head.

Yeah, yeah...I know, that's a tired cinematic cliché, but it makes it all the more ridiculous.

In the beginning, there was a drunk unicorn...

I like unicorns that drink to kill the pain. :)

WOW! A Unicorn!

This was my first attempt creating a Mythfits strip. Obviously, the robot hasn't shown up yet. That turd might show up again later. I like him.

A New endeavor

As an Illustrator, I get told what to draw a lot (duh). It's not usually what I would sit around sketching at home, so lately I've been experimenting with character creation. For some reason these two little guys keep showing up in my doodles! I always loved unicorns. I always loved robots. Maybe I'll do a little cartoon with them.

Lessons in Nudity

(To enlarge this image, click on the man's right kidney.)

Bizarro is brought to you today by Future Figure Drawing Models.

This cartoon brings me back to art school. I dropped out after a semester, never to return, but during that semester, figure drawing class was my favorite. Not because of the nudity, none of the models were sexually attractive, but because I like drawing animals of all sorts and humans fall squarely into that category.

One of our models was a young hipster dude with a Tom Selleck mustache and a Brady Bunch Half-fro. He thought he was God's gift to women and while other models would put on a bathrobe and tie a belt around their waist during our 10-minute breaks, he wore one without a belt and just let the front hang open while he hit on the girls in our class. This was 1976, before college campuses became hotbeds of sexual harassment litigation. Nobody much liked this guy, including the girls.

Another incident I remember that would have landed someone on an unemployment line today had to do with the teacher for the second-year figure drawing class. She was a very attractive woman in her early thirties and many of the male students had a crush on her. One day, when her model did not show up for a class, she stripped and did the modeling herself. On my break, I happened past her room and it was full of not just students but dozens of spectators. There were so many, in fact, that the crowd spilled out into the hallway, and boys were straining to see over the drove and through the narrow doorway. Good times.