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 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.