Mike Cavallaro's Aquaman

Mike drew an Aquaman and three of us inked it.
From top to bottom the inks are:
Tim Hamilton
Simon Fraser
Joe Infunari

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!)

Malefi-Cent

I didn't really add much of my own style to this, as the original design is so flawless. In my opinion, she's the greatest of the Disney villains. I know in some circles Sleeping Beauty is considered a flawed film: Its medieval-tapestry-inspired design is too stiff, it has boring leads, it's too dark (true fact- every shade of paint used in the film was mixed with some black), yadda yadda.

I have my own theory for the criticism against it-- Haters gotta hate.


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Chimera

After watching a youtube clip (Baby Monkey -see below) George O'Connor infected the entire studio with its insanely catchy music. It was not made any better by George's intermittent singing of the song throughout the day. Yesterday was difficult. If it were a mythical beast, it would look something like this:

The inspiration for this can be seen here. Watch at your own risk:

 

 

Sure, Baby Monkey has its charms but it is truly no match for Kitten Shark!

Jane Russell

Bionic Bigfoot has a Posse

As some of you may know, the bionic Bigfoot from the Six Million Dollar Man, was played by none other than Andre the Giant! And so…

Happy Birthday, Notorious K.A.T.!

 

Kat once explained the song, Juicy, by Notorious B.I.G to me. It was a little awkward because I asked a lot of questions.I'm forever thankful to her.

Happy Birthday, Kat!

Happy Birthday Joe!!

Joe was in my dream last night. We were in the studio talking, Joe seemed like his normal self but his glasses kept on giving off this glint that made me shiver. When I woke up I couldn't tell if it was dream or real for a moment. And guess what? It's his birthday today!! :)

Happy Birthday, Joe!

For Mr. Infurnari's birthday, I had the pleasure of drawing ULTRA-Lad, from the comic of the (almost) same name.

Joe Infurnari's Birthday

Hhhaaaappy Biiiirthday too yooouuuuuu, HAAAaappyyyy Birthday tooo  YYOOOOOOOOO

Joe Infurnari's birthday

OH SH*T it's Joe Infurnari's B-day!
Nothing Joe loves more than some Lego action
so here's his creation, "Ultralad" drawn by an
expert lego artist!

Happy Birthday, George! Love, Medusa.

Happy Birthday, Georgie!

Atari: Space Invader

Sleeping Beauty: Maleficent Dragon

Here's my brown and blue rendition of the dragon, Maleficent.

Ook Sauce Before and After

Moonshadow: Ira

To a prince among men, JM DeMatteis. Thanks for sharing your imagination with us all these years.

The Walking Dead

Here's my very late addition to the skeleton crew.

Zippy O'Reilly

 

Pinhead. Thanks to Bill Griffith. 

Loviathan! King Llyr by Dean Haspiel

As you all know, today is Fellow Drawbridger Mike Cavallaro's 61st birthday, and to celebrate we're all drawing characters from his so-good-it-hurts-dear-lord-why-won't-the-pain-stop webcomic Loviathan viewable at the Act-i-Vate website. That being the case, I thought I would share with you our studiomate Dean Haspiel's rendition of King Llyr that he drew last year when Cav turned 49.

I should mention that Cav has a serious thing for blond superheroes, hence the presence of Aquaman and Thor.

Speaking or presence, Dean had the presence of mind to make a scan of this year's birthday card for Sr. Cavallaro. A whole bunch of contributed, including Nathan Schreiber, Simon Fraser, Becky Cloonan, Joe Infurnari, James Smith, Dean Haspiel and your truly. Click here to check it out.