April Fool

George Erling - marker in sketchbook - 1991

I think I first saw George's work in 1979's Animal Bite Comix from Everyman Studio. Sometime in the mid-eighties I got to meet him through Gary Fields and CARTOON LOONACY.

George is hands down, one of my all-time favorite cartoonists, I just love his drawings and stories. He drew this in my sketchbook either at a convention or a picnic at his or Gary Fields' house.

George did the drawing of Max for me because I had written to him and told how much I had liked a story he had done about his dog Max.

You can see some of George's work here:

Good Ol' Joe Tater in "That's Life"

Cap'n Boom & his Burger Boys of Space

Buggerz

Those Cute Li'l Boopers

April Fool

Tyler Chin-Tanner - pencil and charcoal - 2011

Exploring ZONE'S grim environmental aspect.
Tyler is the founder of the comic book company A Wave Blue World.

http://www.awaveblueworld.com

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Jordan Newton-Gaines - ink on paper - 2011

I really like what Jordan did with the crows emerging from the black. You can see more of Jordan's work here:

http://chewbaccastomper.deviantart.com

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Ed Watson - Traditional and digital - 2011

Wow, just got this in an e-mail from Ed and it's both frighteningly cool and creepy. Click on it and take a closer look, I dig how you can sort of see the facial structure beneath ZONE'S skin.

It's very different from how I draw the big guy but I really like it. Thanks Ed.

You can see more of Ed Watson's work here:

http://edwatsonart.daportfolio.com/

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Ed-Watson/...

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Sam Mooney - Ink and wash on Bristol - 2001

Sam is a former student of mine from The Kubert School, he's now living in Japan and blogging all about his experiences, from learning Japanese to his addiction to Manga. You can see more of his artwork and read his blogs here:

• http://kashimaseikatsu.blogspot.com
• http://nihonniiru.blogspot.com
• http://amangaaddict.blogspot.com

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Ed Herrera - pencil on board - 2001

You can see more of the very talented Mr. Herrera's artwork here:

Ed Herrera

artist unknown - circa 2000 - 2002

I'm sorry, I'm having a hard time reading the signature on this image. If you recognize the name by all means contact me and I'll correct this.

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Alec Mclean Morgan - marker on paper 3/11

Not sure about ZONE's left eye...
You can see more of Alec's work here:

http://handoftheapegod.blogspot.com/

Joel Lolar - Marker on green envelope. 3/11

This arrived in the mail with a dollar inside, I sent him a ZONE mini comic.
You can see more of Joel's work here:

Hungry Samurai

And, I'm not implying that these artist are April fools, it's just that for the next several days I'm going to post some different interpretations of good ol' ZONE.