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Spooky Sketch Sunday: Webcomic Zombie Walk

MLapierre — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 04:00:06 +0000

With Halloween right around the corner, I thought the time was right for a zombie sketch. Instead of drawing your average, everyday random zombies, I thought it would be fun to turn some of my favorite webcomic characters into Romero-esque stumbling undead creatures. In this sketch you’ll find representatives from 10 different webcomics. I would have loved to have drawn more, but my paper was only so big.

We have Space Pig from Brock Heasley’s SuperFogeys, Bill from David Reddick’s Legend of Bill, Steve from Mike Witmer’s Pinkerton, Imy from Irma Eriksson’s Imy (of course), Bob from Krishna Sadasivam’s PC Weenies, Zorphbert from Dawn Griffin’s Zorphbert & Fred, Clovis from Lucas Turnbloom’s Imagine This, Chippy from John Sanford’s Chippy & Loopus, Carl from Matt Forcum’s Robot Beach, and the little tiny guy is Bug from Adam Huber’s Bug.

I really hope the creators of these fine comics don’t mind my zombification of their babies. This drawing is intended as both a love letter and a thank you note to these artists whom I admire. They each set the bar real high in their own ways and inspire me to keep Spooky Doofus going.

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Coloring in Between the Lines

MLapierre — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 04:00:01 +0000

A while back, good friend and fellow cartoonist, Lucas Turnbloom asked for my assistance in a big project of his. Aside from his wonderfully wacky comic Imagine THIS, he has an all new, all ages graphic novel in the works. This graphic novel was in need of some color for it’s cover, and Lucas enlisted my mighty Photoshop skills to add some C, M, & Y to his K (sorry, lame printing joke). Anyway, here’s a small peek at Lucas’ dramatic cover with my colorful embellishments. For a little better look at the cover and announcements on Lucas’ other projects check out THIS blog entry. Of course, as soon as I know more about when the book is available, I will let you all know.

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Ghosts of Guest Art Past: Clovis Jong-il

MLapierre — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:20:48 +0000

I did this little piece of fan art a while ago for “Imagine THIS“. I don’t quite remember what inspired me to draw Clovis the teddy bear as everyone’s favorite nutty Korean dictator, but it seems natural. I think it stems from my philosophy that teddy bears in big glasses = funny 100% of the time! This little drawing even inspired “Imagine THIS” creator Lucas Turnbloom to do a series of Clovis Haloween costumes in his strip.

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Ghosts of Guest Strips Past: Imagine THIS!

MLapierre — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:00:26 +0000

Here is look at a guest strip I did for one of my good internet buddies, Lucas Turnbloom. Lucas’ hilarious strip, Imagine THIS is another of my favorites. Featuring a cantankerous teddy bear named Clovis, a dim witted, but lovable toy dinosaur named Dewey, and a pathetic looser named Darin. Do yourself a huge favor and check out Imagine THIS!

For this guest strip, I chose to parody the great film, Fight Club. It felt like a natural fit to me because both Fight Club and Imagine THIS feature goofy shlubs with aggressive imaginary alter egos.

Below is a sketch I did of Dewey before putting the strip together:

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