Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Hysteria #3 cover sketch

I had a lot of goes at this. The girl on the cover of Hysteria #1 was adapted from a photograph of one of Charcot's hysteria patients. The second was a mutation of that one looking crazier and sporting huge claws. This had her sprouting roots into her mattress and long dangling runners like a banyan tree. The one I eventually went with was far more aboreal. She was shedding foliage as it was meant to be an Autumn theme. I'll try and dig that one out.

Maria

This is Maria Szabo from an imagined graphic version of a short story called Spring also featuring Eugen Drada from the strip below (the story came before the Oblomov Days strip)

Oblomov Days 3

This was a first run at the regular strip Oblomov Days from the aborted Hysteria #3. The strip was a thinly veiled self parody of what I was like in my twenties.

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Face at window


The streets after the party

A sketch for the story Heat from Tango 5 Senses.
Not intended for final story.

Brian Mutz: Coroner


One of many from Coloured Pencil Nacht in the terrible winter of '96. Diena had given me a box o' coloured pencils for my birthday and I spent a night in the lounge room, using the tv as muzak and trying out the colours. Here's one.

Mermaids


Monday, March 5, 2012

Self confrontation from unpublished story


This is part of the climactic sequence for what would have been the main story in Hysteria #3, Adrift. Having looked at it again recently, while scanning it, I think I will finish it and publish it somewhere. It's about twenty pages.

Buffo Presidium


Wally and the Deserter

Preliminary sketch for my Escape anthology contribution The Blue Avenger