This is a Prisma Color Pencil sketch of my ex-lover Enrique, done from memory. I also used a medium gray Tombo Brush Pen for laying in the shadow areas.
This is my depiction of the attempted rape of Bruce Banner in an NYC YWCA. The original story appeared in The Rampaging Hulk #23, published 1980. The story was written by Jim Shooter and illustrated without my inspiration by John Buscema and Alfredo Alcala. I read it at the time of its initial publication and wished it had been mine to draw; I’d have shown them how to do it right. Now, 47 years later, I’m taking a stab at it.
I did this Prismacolor sketch in 1981, in an 14” x 11” sketchbook. This is an erotic pose, if somewhat difficult to maintain. But necessary if one is being covert.
This drawing was found dumpster diving in a sketchbook from 1993, while I was working on “The Mark in America”, a serially published, never collected graphic novel I illustrated for Dark Horse Comics, published in early 1994. I was in my Jack Kirby phase at the time.
This drawing was found dumpster diving in a sketchbook from 1993, while I was working on “The Mark in America”, a serially published, never collected graphic novel I illustrated for Dark Horse Comics, published in early 1994. I was in my Jack Kirby phase at the time.
This drawing is of my late husband, John Callahan. It is dated July 11, 1993, which would have made him 47 years of age, 10 years younger than I am now.
This is a series of drawings illustrating a sexual fantasy from my late 80’s erotic sketchbook. This series, which I today call “Down Low With Luigi” is very similar in theme and plot to the “Down Low With Lou” series, except my “clone of desire” is a vaguely mafiosi type of dude rather than Lou Grant.
As an aspiring mainstream comic book artist in the 80’s, I got continual feedback that my inks weren’t of professional quality. The really sad thing is that I believed them. Jeez, I wish I could do work like this TODAY. Or, I should say, I hope I still CAN do work like this today. We’ll find out when I start trying.
This is a series of drawings illustrating a sexual fantasy from my late 80’s erotic sketchbook. This series, which I today call “Down Low With Luigi” is very similar in theme and plot to the “Down Low With Lou” series, except my “clone of desire” is a vaguely mafiosi type of dude rather than Lou Grant.
My parents gave me “The Art of Disney Animation” when I was 10 or 11 years old. At this time I decided I would become an animator myself, a successor to the “9 Old Men” who were responsible for the classics from the golden age of animation. However, I couldn’t draw the same thing twice, let alone 24 times per second, so I decided to draw comic books as practice. By the time I was 13 I had lost interest in animation, totally smitten with comic books. Ironically, I fell into animation upon graduating from art school; I was living in Los Angeles and, at the time, would have had to move to New York City, something beyond me. In retrospect, I know none of this was true, but I didn’t know it then. In any case, I’ve spent the majority of my professional career working in animation, on doing comic books on rare occasions.
This page comes from my animation training, and because I was training myself to be able to design and maintain a specific likeness.
Apparently I was hot for Al Capone.
Interesting side note: Edward G. Robinson, who got his career start playing Italian-American hoodlums, was Jewish. As is Ed Asner. As is my husband.
This is a series of drawings illustrating a sexual fantasy from my late 80’s erotic sketchbook. This series, which I today call “Down Low With Luigi” is very similar in theme and plot to the “Down Low With Lou” series, except my “clone of desire” is a vaguely mafiosi type of dude rather than Lou Grant.
Luigi sings like an angel.
This is a series of drawings illustrating a sexual fantasy from my late 80’s erotic sketchbook. This series, which I today call “Down Low With Luigi” is very similar in theme and plot to the “Down Low With Lou” series, except my “clone of desire” is a vaguely mafiosi type of dude rather than Lou Grant.
I was in my late 20’s when I drew this series. It was only in subsequent years that I gained broader experience with actual middle-aged bodies. Now, of course, I have one myself, and realize that, for the most part, my depictions were inaccurate. In this case, Luigi, who smoked, probably drank and did little if anything to stay in shape, would not have a body like this in his mid-40’s. Sorry to disillusion y’all, but that’s how it goes.
