Here's my sketch for a tense scene in which Steve Brixton is hiding in his local library from a unit of special ops-types bent on his capture:
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvQWM8zMEXxOM5iCt-BfQYtr3e1-cNZTieuVq2jD7xumsB4nGTJW18zqhxLqhxSx-2VxdA_57GyWku5jGm7H5kzADTd-Ee_T6hZkmcIQaDspxuADOvQnwD5mHHr3P8biwirte5K5gYLKQ/s400/library.jpg)
I actually took this sketch, blurred it, posterized it into a flat gray, and used that graytone in the final:
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyhaG_itwUIVLvKezEJKiSDMyw32RVTiuETnLyv6Cge0NPf4l7nbpPqvo3kaNlSYvDhVhYfJEw44yzSFZVlcEmPpgs42FZfX6rhzDyz6BvFVMYZmX4OzYjBkWzc9CfurYy04OhNBAg_sg/s400/librarydone.jpg)
Finally, apropos of nothing, here's a cartoon I drew in high school. My old friend Grant just rediscovered this and emailed it to me. It may be obvious that I was working through sort of a Monty Python stage in my life at this point.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3mj76guYNXDQ1NR59KkaPBNKOCH5JWIrWb8aRVBg6iCmZJu47rirHYizbfLwjw1-CuNla6kbMbQtOjqZONG7X5BQ3mXR-LmdwW9502HG7iC_3hATg4m83tBnyUNq5VK6bHbooum0fjdc/s400/girlexploded.jpg)
10 comments:
Congrats on the shorts. Tell Mac I said, "hey!"
Congratulations!
Congrats! My son and I just started reading The Case of the Case!
I just bought The Case for our library a few weeks ago and took it home to read before putting it on the shelf...I laughed hysterically all the way through! I absolutely loved the way you incorporated the familiar you-know-who images into your art. Hilarious!
Thanks for the posterizing hint. Congrats on the Edgar, too. Hope you guys get it!
Awesome! Congratulations!
The Mexican Anthem does have a sentence that talks about how the Earth will tremble at it's core with the sound of the cannons... "Y retiemble en sus centros la Tierra al sonoro rugir del cañón"... I wonder if the girl behind Grant exploded right after reciting that part.
Congrats! Also, I used to work at a library and I always thought the shelves would be a cool hiding spot, so this guy's onto something. :]
I heard the news! Well done and congrats!
Awesome! Edgar has good taste.
Congratulations!
And--I have to just add that Smekday is one of my 9-year-old son's all-time favorite books. It was all the rest of us could do to pry it from his sleeping fingers and have a shot at reading it.
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