John wastes paper

GREATEST HITS OF THE 60s & 70s DEPT: Lately I've been mooning over a lot of Bob Oksner and Nick Cardy comics covers from the late 60s and early 70s. Boy, could these guys draw! Great, punchy compositions. And a nice, easy handling of figures – especially their female characters. I guess that's why this little girl popped up in my drawing. 'Not as good as theirs, but definitely inspired by. When I was 11 years old and had just started reading and collecting comic books, these two dominated the covers for DC's titles. Thinking of comics from these years, theirs is the work that I picture. Bob Oksner had a great run of Supergirl covers for Adventure Comics, and later for her own title. Check his stuff out here . In the 60s and 70s, Nick Cardy handled almost the entire run of Aquaman's covers. And his Action Comics always depicted Superman and Lois Lane at moments of great emotional conflict. Check out some excellent examples of Nick's covers here .

OVER-PLANNING-MAKES-DELINQUENT DEPT:  Here are some more planning sketches for a personal test I've been thinking about doing. I've always wanted to do a parody of the sugar plum fairy sequence from Fantasia. Instead of waif thin, delicate sprites, I would substitute large, bouncy, bumbling  fairies . There's potentially lots of entertainment possibilities in this, and it should be a lot of fun to do. Now I just need to find the time to sit down and begin :-) (Update: here's another doodle from last night. I just can't help myself :-) All sketches done in TV Paint at 2K resolution with various pencil brushes.