Savage Dragon

As you all know by now, Savage Dragon #171 came out yesterday, with a big jam story written by Joe Keatinge, illustrated by Erik Larsen, Simon Fraser, Mike Cavallaro, Joe Infurnari, Dean Haspiel, George O'Connor and myself, and edited by Mr Michel Fiffe.

I'm just getting over the flu or the black plague so I'm one day late with
a them for the FIRST TIME EVER.

So here is a marker sketch. I will now return to watching 30 Rock on Netflix while
holding ice on my head.

i like savage dragon

shit's always going down in savage dragon.

The Savage Dragon

As you all know by now, Savage Dragon #171 came out today, with a big jam story written by Joe Keatinge,  illustrated by Erik Larsen, Simon Fraser, Mike Cavallaro, Joe Infurnari, Dean Haspiel, Tim Hamilton and myself, and cobbled together by Mr Michel Fiffe. For my portion of the story, I didn't get to draw the familiar version of Mr Dragon doing much but have a conversation with a dead lady (read the story!), but I did get to draw a medieval Savage Dragon in shining armor fighting a fire-breathing Savage Dragon dragon (again,  read the story!). To amend that I did a quickie marker drawing of MR SD, with an even quicker coloring job. It was a lot of fun to get to play, albeit briefly, in Mr Larson's sadnbox, and quite a thrill to see him draw some characters designed by myself and Dean Haspiel (read the story already!)

Savage Dragon

For better or for worse, I did this completely on the iPad using the ArtStudio app. I'm still getting used to my fat fingers getting in the way of what I'm drawing. The Max Headroom / 80s vibe sort of happened organically -- I may have been channelling my inner-Fiffe with these color choices!

SAVAGE SHE-DRAGON

I wasn't really very conscious of Eric Larsen's Savage Dragon until recently. It was one of those Image explosion books that I studiously ignored back in the 90s. Now it's 20 years later and the last man standing seems to be Larsen. That in itself is a remarkable feat of professionalism and dedication. The fact that the comic is still being written and drawn with the same passion and energy that created it, is really something quite wonderful. Eric Larsen has spent the last 20 odd years doing exactly what he wanted to do. You have to love that.
Like most superheroes there's a female version of Savage Dragon. The She-Dragon's powers seem to mostly come from her 'Hulk-Hands' which spit Kirby dots out with great abandon.
Like fellow DrawBridgers Tim Hamilton, Michel Fiffe , George O'Connor , Mike Cavallaro and Joe Infurnari I drew a page of this months Savage Dragon Funnies #171 ( Dean Haspiel was also involved ). It was a cool project. It's fun to play with other peoples toys.

Drawn with a pencil and then inked with a ballpoint, because sometimes you have to fight with your tools.

Savage Dragon Day

In celebration of the last TWISTED SAVAGE DRAGON FUNNIES installment, I've decided to draw a couple of SD supporting cast members: Sergeant Marvel and Dart. They have a complicated relationship. Their costumes are awesome. He just shot the God Gun. What else do you really need to know???

Although these characters cover me like a warm blanket of familiarity, the newness of the coloring involved here still freaks me out. It's an ink drawing and most of his costume was hand colored, but everything else was done my Modern Technology. I expect to abuse this forum in order to do more stuff like this.

In addition, and to balance out the thing above, I've included this strip I made in my sketchbook, featuring a few Savage Dragon villains:

Confused? The shark head is talking to the ape, y'see, who has a bowl on his head and it contains Hitler's brain. I then wanted to replace the nazi ape with this other character, Mace, who is gay. I think I may have just written the world's greatest log line.

Thank you, Erik Larsen, for creating this world.