My Favorite Artist

Maeve Kraiger - pencil - 2011

April Fool

It's the last day of the April and I wanted to squeeze in a couple more images of ZONE as draw by other artists.

Both of the guys featured here were students at The Kubert School. I think both of these drawings were informed by their interest in hip hop and graffiti art, and, both have gone on to become very talented artists and designers.

Sean Clauretie - Ink and Dr. Martin's dyes on Bristol - 2001

You can see more of Sean's work here:

http://www.fnaok.com

Jon Wheat - ink on Bristol - 2001

You can see more of Jon's work here:

http://wheatz.blogspot.com/

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Bjorn Ousland - Ink on 2 ply board - circa 1985-'86

This is a page of original art that was sent to me by my friend Bjorn Ousland, way back when. I met Bjorn in 1981 at The Kubert School, he was in the class following mine. Bjorn came to study at the school from Norway, we shared a lot of similar interests from comics and music to artists and SF authors.

This page has ZONE showing up in the third panel on a poster being applied to the wall in the background. ZONE - UN FILM DE M. KRAIGER I'm not sure what book this appeared in but I believe it was a story written by someone else and illustrated by Bjorn. When he sent me the page he pointed out the coffee stain on right side of the page, courtesy of the books editor, it's not readily visible here.

After graduation, Bjorn went back home to Norway and has been steadily producing humor comics, historical graphic novels and children's books ever since.

To see more of his work, including incredible watercolors from exotic locales go to:

www.bjornousland.com/

(click on the rocket-ship for English)

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Jeremy Regan - Ink on Bristol - 2002

This striking image is one of my favorites, Jeremy is a former student of mine from The Kubert School. I tried to get him involved with a couple of comic projects that never were realized through no fault of ours, the editor I was pitching ideas to was laid off.

Jeremy's latest mania is custom toys and you can see examples of some of his work here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/reganomics813

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Wow! This turned up in my email today, it's by a young artist you've probably never heard of...

Orion Zangara - traditional/digital - 2011

Actually, Orion is one of the students in my 3rd year Writing and Imaginative Drawing class at The Kubert School. You can see more of his work here: http://orion-is-the-hunter.deviantart.com/. And very soon here: www.orionzangara.com.

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Paul Chadwick - 1992
Cover to SAN DIEGO COMIC CON COMICS, published by Dark Horse Comics.

Yeah, that's our guy ZONE, making a cameo appearance in the upper left, right behind Concrete's head. This was a goofy jam comic that Dark Horse published for that year's San Diego Comic Con. I didn't attend that year, so unless Dark Horse sent this to me, I'm not even sure where I got my copy of the book. It's not a great rendition of the big guy, but it's cool to see him alongside the creations of some of my favorite comic book artists, then being published by Dark Horse. Can you name all the characters?

Rich Hedden, pencils • Tom McWeeney, inks - 1992
Page four and five of SAN DIEGO COMIC CON COMICS.

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Rich Hedden and Tom McWeeney - 1989

Hey, who's that standing back there at the bar? From page five of ROACHMILL #8 published by Dark Horse Comics.

Rich and Tom are Kubert school alumni, I believe they were two years behind me but we'd met up at conventions or parties.

I had totally forgotten about this but found it yesterday going through a box of comics.

Roachmill - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Richard Hedden