JOSIE & THE PUSSYCATS, DMZ, OINK!, THE PSYCHO and THE CROW

THE CREATURE AND THE ORCHID

The Gill-Man hisownself climbing up from the Black Lagoon. Pencil on cardboard.


The Gaiman/McKean version of the Black Orchid. Ballpoint on cardboard.

MEPHISTO IN GRAPHITE

Marvel's very own Old Scratch... Mephisto.
(click to enlarge)

Probably one of my favorite sketches of my own, even though I'm trying my damnedest to evoke Buscema. If you don't think to yourself: How would Buscema draw Mephisto when you're trying to draw Mephisto, you are beyond help. He literally wrote the book on drawing Mephisto. And nobody, but nobody drew a villain sitting better or more interestingly.

SOLOMON KANE, FIN FANG FOOM & LIBERTY MEADOWS?

The Puritan purifier of evil...


Marvel's dragon of dragons...


The cheesecake in that slice of comedy pie...

ELEMENTALS & SWAMP THINGS

Above, it's Bill Willingham's classic supergroup The Elementals, a damn fine comic that fought the good fight.



Above we have Jason Voorhees used because it was Friday the 13th against the mysterious Man-Thing.

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MASKED PRINCESS MONONOKE

A color study of a Masked Mononoke (click to enlarge).