Heading and illustration for an article about the young Ray Bradbury’s trip to the first World Science Fiction Convention in NYC in 1939.
This was an illustration to accompany a poem about living on a commune in the 1970s, from TRAP DOOR. 2014.
Another cover from the end of 2013. This one from the anniversary issue of TRAP DOOR. Once again, a couple of oddballs standing around in a hole in the ground. Yum, pudding.
Here’s another of my groups of odd and unlikely people and things. This is from the cover of RAUCOUS CAUCUS at the end of 2013. Click on this one, there’s lots of detail.
This was a cover for QUASIQUOTE that was drawn 5 years ago, but didn’t see publication for a couple of years. The dialogue references sf fandom, but the art just references my love of odd groupings of weird people.
A cover for RANDOM JOTTINGS. The drawing was an illustration that was rejected by an editor and was then colored for the above mentioned magazine. Sadly, it appeared in a cropped and incomplete manner and this is the first time it has been seen in its entirety.
Here’s a two page surreal comic strip done in 2014 for the magazine CHUNGA. All the references are rather obscure and include a quote from Frank Zappa and allusions to Kafka, PK Dick and the magical number 23. I can’t claim to know the significance of it all, I just tried to make it funny. Enjoy?
This was the cover art to the 300th mailing of the Fantasy Amateur Press Association aka FAPA, a small press organization started in 1938, I believe, by Donald A Wolheim and others to distribute early science fiction fanzines in quarterly bundles to all of its members. FAPA – once known as the Elephant’s Graveyard for sf fans – is still coming out on schedule to this day. This artwork was used as a frontispiece, of sorts, to all the other zines assembled in that anniversary mailing.
Once again, this one was good for working on my computer coloring skills. It was based on a sketch from more than 10 years earlier that I had always liked, but never finished.
