Weissblech Comics "Halloween Horror"

Erstmalig hat WEISSBLECH Comics es dieses Jahr geschafft, zum Gruseltag ein HALLOWEEN-HORROR-Magazin zusammenzustellen! Dank der Deutschen Bundespost mit einem "Last-Minute"- Tuscheeinsatz meinerseits über die Covervorzeichnung von WC-Boss Levin Kurio....

Pencils: Levin Kurio, Tusche: Rainer F. Engel

Das in extra-trashiger Schwarzweiss-Optik gedruckte DIN-A4-Heft enthält eine bunte Mischung von Geschichten aus vergriffenen HORRORSCHOCKER-Ausgaben, nie gesehenen Raritäten aus des Verlegers Giftschrank und einer Story von Frank Flöthmann und mir. "Das Ding aus dem Krater" erschien vor langer Zeit mal in einer gekürzten Version bei Moga Mobo, ist aber nun in seiner ganzen, sechsseitigen Pracht enthalten.

Auf duftendem Werkdruckpapier gedruckt - ein Fest für den Haptiker! HALLOWEEN HORROR erscheint im Oktober zusammen mit CAPTAIN BERLIN # 2. Das wird ein fetter Herbst!

Achtung! Limitierte Auflage! Rechtzeitig vorbestellen!

Software ad cartoons....

10 years ago I did 42 cartoon ads taking over from legendary artist Gerhard Seyfried for a local Software company called SAPERION. Published weekly in a trade paper for one year. Starring the »Homo Saperion« and an Giant Snail trying to make fun of some news, industry standards and events back then.

With, ...uhh, mixed results... Pen, ink & Photoshop, 2000.

Stuff from the dump #6: The Dragon's liar

A rough and fast pencil sketch done in 2001 for the computer game "Wiggles". Never made it into the final version...

Two Headed Dragon ...

Another sketch from the dump: A two-headed dragon for an Advertisement agency 10 years ago. Fineliner & some Photoshop pimping, 1999.

Addendum for Friday and some more fish as well...

Apologises. This blog is an exercise in discipline and I failed. Yeah, missed the post yesterday because of the sensational premiere of "Captain Berlin vs. Hitler" I attended at Kino Central in Berlin. Pictures following soon...

As addendum for last weeks fish: Found the colored version on a CD backup (done with Photoshop):

Wild boar of Tuscany - another tale from the dump...

This simple drawing went through various stages until the customer was finally satisfied. A fast job going awry... First they wanted just a picture of a wild boar in line art. That was all info I was given, fetched a reference Pict and came up with this:

Then I was told it was a nice try, but she had a certain boar in mind. From a special wine etiquette from Tuscany. Unfortunately she lost her last specimen. A Google search yielded only a stamp sized Giff, so this was used as reference for the next try:

Close, but no cigar. The Lady wasn't satisfied. At all. But the failure motivated her searching and finally she rediscovered the label, so I was able to match her cherished memories of wild boars in Tuscany:

I still like the first best, but anyway, I like wild boars more as Salami! Yummy!

Friday is fish day ....more stuff from the dump

It's Friday, have some fish! Every Cafeteria or Canteen has some on the menu on Fridays and I'm f**§%§"?#* hate it. This is a prehistoric fish called the "Cylakant" (with a bit of Pirania thrown in) inspired by the campy movie "Monster on Campus" a lesser effort from noted Sci-Fi  director Jack Arnold.

It was done for an animated sequence for the (unfortunately box office failure) "Ein göttlicher Job". Pen, ink & brush, 2001.

Images saved from the dump....part #1

When you're working as a layout artist or story boarder you might had the same experience over the years: Doing illustrations/sequences which go directly to the trash after the presentation/pitch is done.  Sometimes these are pictures you really put some effort or heart & soul into, always well paid but in the end they are bound to be abandoned. Today you find here (and in future posts) some examples of these forgotten efforts snatched away from oblivion....

Some Layouts for a billboard campaign for a Newspaper, the punchline was: "Go tell something new!"

This was my first attempt:

This was the heavy art directed  final version:

I prefer the first version because its much clearer compared to the second, but it seems sometimes the AD's don't have too much imagination (or no balls...).....