Heap Peep
But Just a Peek…
Among my 2013 jobs already completed: a few book covers. I can’t show ‘em off and strut my stuff until the publishers make their announcements, but I can tease you a bit…
So, one of those covers lands me in the premiere procession of Heap portrait artists for PS Publications, and proud as peat(moss)!
Frank Brunner, Mike Ploog…
…and yours truly. I took a more cartoony approach to my Heap portrait, but publisher Pete Crowther was pleased, so I reckon it was the right call.
I’m not going to show off my cover until Pete does (via PS Publications press release), but here’s a few of the background elements from one of the two paintings I delivered.
Special thanks to Ian Richardson for seeing to the scanning and digital duties on this one; much appreciated, Ian!
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Oh Man! Mike Ploog. How I remember when he showed up and I thought he was a twenty year old who was influenced by Eisner. Later I found out he WAS Eisner. Well Grandenetti was Eisner, but you know what I mean.
When Mike Ploog inked Tom Sutton on the 2nd episode of THE BEAST (in AMAZING ADVENTURES), you had to squint really hard if you wanted to detect any “Tom Sutton” in the finished art at all. The whole thing looked like Will Eisner did it! (How does anybody DO that? I mean, I can see the occasional influence creepng in here and then, but how do you “channel” someone else’s style to such an extent? And woudln’t it take much longer to do that than to just do “your own” style?)