Cartoony Looney – 10

Comic book editor and publisher Cat Yronwode had a column in the Comics Buyer’s Guide called Fit to Print. The column had header drawings that were submitted by anybody and everybody.

My submissions were strange in sort of an underground cartooning way. I made anagrams out of Cat’s name and the name of her column, and I used Gyro Gearloose’s little lightbulb helper character as a springboard for ideas. There is a six year gap between these two samples, with the top one being from 1990.

Cartoony Looney – 9

A couple more drawings from my time doing graphics work at a newspaper.

And, what the heck, here is a single panel example of my comic book drawing style, from when drawing that way still mattered to me. It looks rather generic because I was focusing on structure, and not style. This is from my portfolio that I showed to Joe Orlando at DC Comics, who said I “showed potential.”