Background Imagery

This is the background piece for the Zodiac post below. It's my recreation (minus some detail) of the Phillips 66 map Zodiac sent to the press. I have some textures to add and a little text detail, both hand written and stylized font.

I though it was going to take me forever to recreate the map to this point, but it really didn't take too long. Light tables are a wonderful thing when wanting to recreate a real element in a comic style.

Trying to mix elements like the actual map with an illustrative comic style just never look good. It's the same with trying to mix illustrative styles and actual photographs. They just tend to clash when you try and go that route.

That's why the only choice was to take a little time and draw out a facsimile of the road map. It'll just look better in the end.

New Project

A shot of the pencils for a poster on which I am working. It's about the Zodiac serial killer case from the late 60's early 70's from the San Francisco Bay area. The poster itself, when it's all done, will be set up like a movie poster based on the David Fincher film Zodiac staring Robert Downey Jr., Jake Gyllenhaal, Mark Ruffalo and Anthony Edwards, among others.

The movie itself was actually not bad from an entertainment stand point but it was sorely lacking in the factual department.

Anyway, there is a little more material I need to add/refine in this image as well as drawing a recreation of a Phillips 66 road map of Norther California I need to add into the large bank area up at the top, but I should have it finished (minus color) in a couple days...

The Incredible Joe Fixit

Oh, the halcyon days of the grey Hulk living in Las Vegas and working as hired muscle for a casino owner named Berengetti... Those were the days; always wrecking nice suits and white gloves. Peter David and Jeff Purves were a great writing and drawing team.

I loved that era, both in the story telling and in the art. I'd love to see a grey, mouthy, smaller but decidedly more aggressive Hulk make a comeback...

Anyway, this is the finished version of the one found here [linkey]. That or you can just scroll two posts down to see it.