Comedy Illustrations

Folks from the Comedy.com site have asked for another round of 'gag' illustrations for the different topics of jokes they feature. See if you can figure out these categories:

Viva La Rambo!

I've been seeing this around town lately, and the irony here hasn't escaped me one bit. Surely this is a swipe from the Che image.



It's just that it's for the new Rambo movie, which, was this huge Stallone Reagan era classic (I think the 3rd installment in the Rambo franchise had him fighting alongside Mujahadeen in Afghanistan!)

Nancy's Cookbook

About 5 years ago, my uncle had embarked on collecting all of our Grandmothers Italian recipes. He complied them into an entire cookbook, which he then gave all of us grandchildren a copy.

By popular demand, he's decided to print up some copies to sell, in a nicely bound form. He's asked me to contribute design duties, starting with a cover:



And with that, here's a recipe for Garlic Mashed Potatoes:

2 LB baking potatoes
2 Large cloves of roasted garlic, reserving the oil
1/4 c Unsalted butter
1 c Milk
Salt & Pepper to taste
1/4 minced Italian parsley

Peel and cut the potatoes into large pieces. Place in a medium sized pot with salted water and bring to a boil. Cook 15-20 minutes or until the potatoes are easily pierced with a fork. Drain potatoes, mash adding butter, milk, garlic, pulp and garlic flavored oil. Mix well. Season with salt, pepper and Italian parsley.

Serves 6

In case you didn't see the latest episode...

Doom Leaper

This is an old GIF used waaaay back for an old video. Scroll your browser down keeping your eye on the top of the screen.

(Click the frame at the bottom to play it with all frames).

Inks!

This is my first pass at some inks for the book. It looks like this might be a learning as I go process, as, there's going to be some experimenting. Lots of inking I've looked at lately involves use of cross-hatch rather than gray tones for shading.



The main idea is to probably use the computers gray tones as little as possible, save, for skin tone, and shadow effects.

Pieter Dorrenboom

A while back, I took a summer trip through Europe with a friend. We ended up going to lots of local pubs, shows, and record stores throughout Europe. It was fascinating to see the local culture through these underground music scenes, and , each country had it's own take. In Holland (Netherlands), we found a lot of the local music had it's artwork done by Pieter Dorrenboom, a local cartoonist.



His illustrations have to be some of my favorites, as, I found myself buying the records, having no idea what the music was like, JUST for the artwork. There's a Dutch Punk/Rockabilly band called 'Batmobile' who's albums featured lots of Pieters artwork.



Some of these records came out almost 20 years ago, but, it looks like Pieters still illustrating and creating great work!

J



Oh, and Happy New Year!