VAMPIRES by tom fowler

so vampires... not for me.

this is terrible.

cheers.

EDIT:


colours by the lovely and talented jordie bellaire.

my colour notes to her: "van valkenburgh."

USAGI YOJIMBO by tom fowler

is it too soon to be self-referential?

no?

'kay.

seriously, stan sakai is one of the greatest guys in this industry and usagi one of its most compelling characters. i hope i've done right by both of them with this.

DAMIAN WAYNE by tom fowler

comics' most famous sociopath's adorable little man.

GROO THE WANDERER by tom fowler

by this point people probably know how much i HATE posting pencils, but with my big boy job coming down to the wire i'm kind of running on empty at the moment.

since it's my week, though, i felt like i needed to get something up. so here's a bit of a preview. i promise i'll get some paint on it as soon as things clear out.

cheers.

BUCKY by tom fowler

yeehaw.

KAMANDI Search+Destroy by Tom Fowler

About a year ago I realized that the Stooges' song "search and destroy" could have been literally based on KAMANDI from start to finish. So of course what else would I do but plot out a KAMANDI story based on the song? ...From start to finish.

Special thanks to Mr. Mitchyzptlk Gerads for the typographical aid.

EDIT: you can see my process for the above here.

EDIT the second: big thanks also to the KRAZY KIRBY KOLOURING of mr. kyle "go look at dan's omac" latino!

THE MARQUIS by tom fowler

guy davis is one of my very favourite people in this industry, and his marquis one of the most fun things to draw. i squeezed this into a horrible schedule, largely to keep my sanity. this also marks the first time i've ever digitally coloured anything (such as it is).

hope you like it, guy.

also, this:

ROALD DAHL... by tom fowler

first: JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH.

... really the reason i picked roald dahl this week. i've been ready "james" to my 3 year old son this week, and when we hit this scene, which i had absolutely no memory of, the image hit me immediately and i had to paint it!

second: THE FANTASTIC MR. FOX.


... the boy may be a bit young for this one yet.

part of the reason i love roald dahl is that his children's fiction is full of such visceral, inky blackness. terrible things happen. characters are dispatched in horrible, if often ludicrous, fashion. dahl shies away from none of it, but presents it in a way that children still find deeply fun and compelling.

to hell with r.l. stein. roald dahl was the master of children's horror.

CALVIN & HOBBES by tom fowler

dear mr. watterson,



thank you.

MADMAN by tom fowler

i've been a very busy person lately, so it's been difficult to contribute anything i felt was worth showing. but when steve suggested madman, how could i resist?

mike's been a good friend and a source of encouragement and inspiration to me for years. whether he knows it or not, he's also (through a series of weird coincidences and my former penchant for wearing suits) largely responsible for my formal entry into comics.

thanks mike! i love you, man.

DOOM PATROL by tom fowler

the doom patrol was actually the runner up for every pick i've made so far. thanks chris for helping me off the pot.

GHOSTBUSTERS by tom fowler

apologies to mr. murrackramishudson for the likenesses...

JAR JAR BINKS by tom fowler

i'm cheating a bit this week, but given that i'm fairly certain i'm the only twartist to have drawn jar jar professionally, i figured i earned the right to fudge this week a bit.


as andy mentioned in his post, there aren't a whole lot of ways to make jar jar cool. the best way i've found is not to show him at all. a few years back , while i was doing some star wars work, i proposed a short story set just before "a new hope". the main idea being that most of the rebels blamed jar jar for everything that had gone wrong in there universe, and that resentment had turned over time into a general prejudice against gungans, who themselves made it a point of honor to fight the hardest in the worst conditions to make up for this supposed debt. that set the scene for a "two-fisted tales/the losers" style story about one particularly hardcore unit of gungan warriors, going on a certain death mission that ultimately (so far as anyone in the story knew or cared) turned out to be meaningless.

not surprisingly, nobody went for it. whether because of the underlying theme of racism, or because it may have been a bit too meta, i don't know.

so why am i writing all this?

jar jar can lick my left nut...

... but gungans are fun to draw.

HITCHCOCK by tom fowler

"the trouble with harry"



probably not surprisingly my favourite hitchcock film.

SUPERMAN by tom fowler

JONAH HEX by tom fowler

between round two with the taxman and the run up to my art show i had very little time to do anything this week. but with the wife working late at the office and the boy safely in bed i was able to stitch together* a couple of hours...

... and for sticklers who like full figure shots here's a commission i did a while back.








* get it? "stitch" GET IT??



(i hate myself...)

FUTURAMA by tom fowler

just one of my favouritest things ever...

...er, futurama that is.

MINIMAL FANTASTIC FOUR by tom fowler

WHAT IF?: MAN-THING & ROCKET RACCOON by tom fowler

when declan suggested man-thing for our theme a few weeks back it really lit a fire in my belly (ha!). if my previous go at the character could be considered the basis of a weirdo southern-gothic pitch, then this one can be considered my balls-out gerberian societal-horror story. nathan's amazing colours (thanks nathan) are the icing on the cake!

(...but for those who like undecorated cake here it is in black and white.)
but wait... is that the pitter-patter of tiny, otherworldly feets i hear?

hyup.

rocket raccoon has been a passion of mine for a great many years. i actually wrote about doing my own version of the book a few years back. as much as i love his resurgence in the core marvel universe (and i do LOVE it), i still think my version would work. and what is that version, you ask?:

simply, john carter with cute furry animals, stocked on a bookstore shelf next to bone.




(also, nathan and my deadpool team-up #888 is out today. go buy it.)

NEXUS by tom fowler

now go buy some of steve rude's stuff.

(he's much better at drawing this guy than me...)