Vintage Halloween Mask Series

 I just completed this series of 20 drawings of vintage (mostly Ben Cooper and Collegeville) Halloween masks. All of these are black light pieces (some more than others, as you can see below), done in ink and marker on bristol. All of these are available for sale (originals), will be posted on the Etsy page shortly... or contact me directly if you're interested. Each is $100 (plus $10 if you want it framed, another $10 for shipping & handling). Happy Howloweeeeeen!!! 

new POOCs!

 

Wrapper Redux: Monster Greeting Cards

 

Prince Street News: Missing Marvel Merch of the Bronze Age!

 The new BACK ISSUE (#152) celebrates MARVELMANIA and its various merchandising offshoots, so I decided to mock up some "Missing Marvel Merch of the Bronze Age!" All of these are based on actual products, no doubt many of you will recognize at least some of them. This is one of those installments that will not work for the non-longbox crowd, so if you stumbled on this by accident, I apologize! 

Below is the strip (a one-pager) as it appears in the mag, and the individual elements on their own. 

Lo-Fi Takes the Streets 2024

 I was asked to do the artwork for the annual LO-FI TAKES THE STREETS festival in the Jersey City Heights this year. It was kind of a bittersweet job, as I was taking over for the late Matt Caputo, who'd done the work in the previous years. Pictured here are just the poster and tee-shirt designs. Click over to Tough Guy II for more including an alternate logo, detail of the pieces, sketches, and process. 

Wonder Woman Out of the Box (two versions)

 Last year, I was commissioned to do a drawing of Wonder Woman busting out of her Mego 12" figure box. I was done with inking it when I thought to ask the person if they wanted it to be the "real" WW or the doll. I'd drawn a comic book Wonder Woman... they wanted the doll. 

So! Here are two different versions of the same piece! Which one do YOU like better? 

Dagwood / Adam

 

Prince Street News: The Great Unseen Batman Artists of the '70s

The new BACK ISSUE Magazine (#150) is a look at the (slightly) lesser-known Batman creators of the Bronze Age (mostly meaning everyone aside from Denny O'Neil, Neal Adams, and Jim Aparo!). It's a must-have for any fan of the Darknight Detective BEFORE Frank Miller (who's also in this issue, albeit focusing on his first Batman story) turned him into the Dark Knight. 

This issue's PRINCE STREET NEWS was super fun to do: "The Great Unseen Batman Artists of the '70s" imagines what the character might've looked like as rendered by some of the few cartoonists and illustrators who DIDN'T ever draw Batman (and believe me, it's not easy to find a lot of them)! So you've got Harvey Comics' Ernie Colón, Gahan Wilson, Jules Feiffer, DOONESBURY's Garry Trudeau, Cathy Guisewite of CATHY, Marvel's John Romita, Arnold Roth, underground cartoonist, Skip Williamson, PEANUTS' Charles M. Schulz, B. Kliban, MAD Magazine's Dave Berg, and graphic designer Milton Glaser. Below the full strip are detail on a few of the pieces. 

It's been a LONG time since I've posted anything here... part of it is a lack of productivity, but also, I gotta say, nobody ever looks at blogs anymore. The Tough Guy Instagram page is primarily where I'm posting stuff these days. This page will remain as basically an online portfolio, but man, it sure feels like a lot of work anymore.