"Tales of the New West" by Hernandez/Jew
I've been slowly cleaning out my studio lately. I've been going through lots of old work that I haven't seen in decades. I came across this comics page I did in 1988. I was just finishing up in art school and was soon to embark upon my film career at ILM when I did this. This page was one of a handful I did for "Tales of the New West", a project written by Mario Hernandez of Love and Rockets fame. I was ( and still am ) a huge fan of all three Hernandez Bros, so I was extremely excited when Mario asked me to help him out on the project. Unfortunately, with my fulltime school load among other things, I wasn't able to commit my full attention to the project at the time and it never got off the ground. The story was a quirky, imaginative adventure story and I would have loved to see were it would've gone.
posted by benton jew @ 6:31 PM
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Hello --
I'm sorry to bother you; I hope you can help me find decent-sized (digital) copies of some wonderful gag artwork you did at ILM in the 90s. If I recall correctly, you did 3 amazing EC Comics "covers" with VFX themes. I think they may have gone out as a holiday card. Is there anyplace where they can be found/seen/purchased?
There's a whole new generation of VFX artists who could appreciate the humor.
thanks,
Ed Manning
Ed-
The art department created three ECish pieces of artwork to advertise the 1997 ILM Halloween Party. Huge Banners were made, as well as postcards sent to ILMer's. A nice poster was even made of my "Attack of the Nitpickers" piece. Brian O'Connell did a "Howard the Duck" piece, and Scott Leberecht did a "George Lucas mask" piece.
I also did a scifi themed piece the next year.
I was going to do a post about the "Nitpickers" piece ( and others like it ) this month anyway, so stay tuned.
Very cool--- speaking of comix- What's the status of your new comic book stuff, though, btw?
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