Showing posts with label Underground Comix. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Underground Comix. Show all posts

Friday, May 15, 2020

DMT IMPS COMIX


Being in quarantine you'd think that I'd try to make some profound and symbolic artwork to express the unprecedented horror of the times. The last thing I want to do is make some COVID art. Ugh. Enough. I'll leave it for the rest of the internet to make. Instead I got inspired by an idea I've had for a while about a Robocop and Judge Dredd team up where they're trying to bust The Freak Brothers. It didn't seem like a fair fight so I wondered how to make it more interesting. One thing led to another and this is what came out. Here's the premise:

Judge Dredd and Robocop are partners in law enforcement that fly around town beating and arresting hippies and non-violent criminals or killing them if they don't comply. But when they harass the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, Cherry Poptart, Dumb Donald (from Fat Albert), and Foxxy Love (from Drawn Together), they pick the wrong pack of stoners to screw around with. Using their magical Shrek Hookah, the gang smoke some N,N-Dimethyltryptamine to summon THE DMT IMPS! Terence Mckenna and other writers have published books about the interdimensional elves that you can contact with DMT, but the Shrek Hookah brings a special team of these entities into our reality composed of The Great Gazoo (from The Flintstones), The Jeep (from Popeye), Cosmo and Wanda (from The Fairly Odd Parents), The Gremlin (from Bugs Bunny), The Impossible Man (from The Fantastic Four), and Bat-Mite (from Batman). The DMT Imps immediately summon exploding donuts to launch at Robocop and Judge Dredd, distracting them long enough for our underground degenerates to escape!

Here's the original ink piece:
 

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

My Defenders #1 Blank Cover artwork

One of the six variant covers to #1 of Marvel's 2011 Defenders series is blank, which is done for artists to fill in. I made 3 copies of the following front cover and back cover:
A blatant Steve Ditko swipe

My tribute to Crumb, Shelton, Griffin and Vaughn Bode


The cover image of Dr. Strange getting busy was a re-creation of a Steve Ditko drawing along with some inspiration from a sexy picture of the GI Joe Baroness I found online. It makes reference to an incident that actually occurs in the comic.

The back cover is a tribute to the artwork of some underground comic legends: Dr. Strange and Red She Hulk is in the style of an infamous Robert Crumb piece. Iron Fist is in the style of Vaughn Bode's Cobalt 60. The Sub Mariner is a combo of Wonder Warthog and Freak Brother Freewheelin' Franklin. The Silver Surfer is based on Rick Griffin's legendary surfing comic.

Here's the 3 covers. I painted one of them blue but decided to keep the other two white:

Here's the 3 back covers: