Just doing a little more rooting through my old folders, and thought I’d post a few illustrations which aren’t archived on my site anywhere.

Just over a year ago, I designed this cover for the premiere issue of the comics-magazine Squid and Ink. The magazine still hasn’t been released.

Long time readers might recognize these as part of my original site design, but these characters were part of a show pitch I was developing in college called ExperiMental. I was convinced it was going to be the greatest educational programming ever. It took place in the tiny, underfunded Morsby Animal Behavior Research Facility, located in a strip mall between a video store and a pizza shop. It had 8 subjects. Gizmo and Gadget were 2 hamsters who spent each episode trying to escape in ridulous Rube Goldberg-esque manners. The 6 Lab Birds, who had been trained to speak by different means in a study on communication. (L to R) Theo had listened to an audio recording of a thesaurus, and therefore communicates in as big of words as possible. Lex had listened to a dictionary, and therefore understood most of what everyone else said and acted as a straight man/translator. Flippy was trained with flip charts and flash cards, and speaks like a normal parrot, understanding colors, and what sound a doggie makes. Pajaro speaks only high school Spanish, What can only say the word what, and Teevy grew up watching television and is therefore stupid. As this television show would have been.

A presentation image from my student film Old Maid. I developed this ridiculously complex coloring style that was so time consuming that the shot these images are from is the only shot in the film I actually finished.

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