My First Comic
I have always had a interest in comics. First with the Road Runner and the weekend funnies to various Marvel Comics fare and then Heavy Metal Magazine by 1979. My 'first' original drawing from 1979 (see next blog post July 24th) was comic book based somewhere between Rich Buckler's Deathlok figure and Jim Steranko's psychedelia artwork. As far as this single page comic goes, I'm not exactly sure where the art 'comes' from. Perhaps just me. The words on the other hand I would have to credit to someone else. A girl I briefly knew that I used to work with and she wrote an untitled poem. I edited this poem of hers (wish I could remember her name) by rearranging the lines and paring it down to what you see here. I enjoyed the process but I did not do another comic again until 1984 and there still remains a few story ideas I had back then that I would still like to illustrate. Most all of my comics since this one have been wordless in nature.
Dust - 1982 - ink & pencil crayon on paper - 12 x 16 in.
Tim Curry - 1982 - pencil crayon on paper - 20 x 24 in.
Particles - 1982 - pencil crayon on paper - 20 x 20 in.
This piece called Particles is actually in color, (blue jeans and sleeves and a red guitar), but this was the only decent print I could find right now.You can start to see that just as I am now, even back then, 30 years ago my interests are all over the place. From surrealism, to sci-fi, to comics, to music, to abstraction and realism. I liked it all and felt an affinity towards everything. I sort of thought that since I did not go to school, that all these interests were my schooling, as if they were different 'subjects' I was taking. I was not thinking about graduating any time soon and just seemed to continue along this path of 'all-overness" of which you will continue to see in the future posts to come.
