Captain Mal Reynolds-- He aims to misbehave

It's "Firefly" day here on Drawbridge, not "Inara" day, just sayin'. Someone had to draw the Captain, and that someone was me.

So here's how Firefly day came about: we all love Firefly here at the Drawbridge studios. LOVE IT. But especially me.

A while back, the old fogies with whom I share this blog wanted to do a "Space 1999" day, which was some old sci-fi show from before my time. It meant nothing to me, so I asked, "Couldn't we do a 'futures of the past' day instead? You could draw Space 1999, and I could do, like, I don't know, 1984 or 2001: A Space Odyssey or something?"

"NO", said they, "It's Space 1999 day. Suck it!"

"Suck you!" said I, and drew this Firefly piece instead, because, as mentioned, I LOVE Firefly. And lo and behold, my Firefly piece got a whole lot of hits, way more that their Space 1999 pieces did, because people love Firefly. So then, as we all love Firefly, we figured, let's make a whole day of it.

And there was much rejoicing, hallelujah!

Inara Serra - Morena Baccarin - from Firefly

Frankly this got a bit out of control.

So for my sketch today ( cough) I had initially thought of doing Zoe Washburn, all leather and attitude. Then I cracked and did this instead. My excuse if that I'm trying to teach myself to paint better. Yes that's my excuse for burning a whole morning. It's not as if I have to make a living or anything....(sob)

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"Firefly" Inara, Morena Baccarin

Today the theme is "Firefly!"
A favorite show to many including me.

I decided to draw the very cute rough and tough
ship mechanic Jewel Staite who...
Wait, I'm told this is NOT Jewel I drew.
I actually drew the very beautiful
Morena Baccarin who played the companion Inara Serra.

Sorry, I really didn't mean to draw another cheese cake
type sketch!! Damn! Stupid me!

If we do a Firefly day again I'll try to
do better.

Sigh

Cobra: Knowing is half the battle.

What a difference a few years makes.

We're not all that dissimilar in age here in the studios, just a handful of years separate us all, really, but the 12 inch G.I.Joe of Simon and Tim's was like an urban legend for me growing up. We knew it had existed-- grownups were always telling us G.I.Joe was this big when they were growing up, yet none of us had ever gotten a good look at one. There was a pit in the local woods where I grew up that contained the melted and mutilated remains, impaled on a tree stump, of a 12 inch Joe that we would go view on occasion. But for me and my friends, G.I.Joe was a little 3 and 3/4 inch team of guys with cool nicknames and specialties. Even better, they had a team of enemies, Cobra, who were all much cooler than the Joes. I definitely sided with the bad guys.

I was never a big fan of the cartoon which existed to sell us the little plastic men, but I was a huge fan of the comic, which was written by Larry Hama and had art by such talents as Michael Golden, Herb Trimpe, Russ Heath and others.

Space 2517: Firefly--So what does that make us?

Big damn heroes, sir!

Ain't we just.

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