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Happy World Mental Health Day!

Destiny of the Endless – detail of a drawing done for a DC Comics house ad, 1993. India ink on two-ply Bristol; digital gray tones. TM and © DC Comics.

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Merry XXXmas to all who celebrate!

Chase Darrow sketches and notes from early 2013. I was reacquainting myself with the character in preparation for creating new promotional art for a remastered Breathtaker hardcover edition. TM and © 1990 Mark Wheatley and Marc Hempel.

Remembering Michael Nesmith, December 30, 1942 ‒ December 10, 2021.

1983 developmental sketch for the final issue of Mars (First Comics). Graphite on sketch paper.

Yes, I took way too long to get it done. Yes, that's my black trilby he's wearing 🙂.

Promotional art for The Kindly Ones, 1993.

Mark Wheatley (R) and myself at our first San Diego Comic-Con in 1982! FWIW, I am sporting a Maxell (cassette tapes) T-shirt, and Mark is looking fashionably feline in his Cat People (1982 film) promotional tee. Mark's Avalon Hill game box illustration and my cover art for Fantastic Films magazine are among the various paintings surrounding us. Importantly, we sold our series Mars to First Comics at this convention.

Petite portrait of a positive, pointy-eared person for your perusal. (A brush pen doodle from my sketchbook, circa 2018.)

From The Sandman: The Kindly Ones – (top) my pencils and speech balloon placement; (bottom) inks by Rich Case; letters and borders by Todd Klein; colors by Danny Vozzo; words by Neil Gaiman.