Recent fanzine art for Surprising Stories

Art for John Thiel's Surprising Stories

Found here: http://surprisingstories.thiels.us/SSV38/Contents.htm (latest ish!)

here: http://surprisingstories.thiels.us/SSV37/Contents.html

and here: http://surprisingstories.thiels.us/SSV36/Contents.html

Scavenger

Desire, a Harlot

Reversia

Trauma

Visitor from the North

Doing Time

I've been using different width art pens on gray and brown paper for some of these and ink and brush for others. There might be a digital one in there as well.

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Lazy Day

Had a lazy day today. Been working on high gear for a while now. Guess I needed a break. Today's monster: "Chicken of the Sea".

This is my first Illustration Friday submission. Since my homepage is finally up and running, I felt it was time to get some of my stuff out there. The second I learned this week's theme "strings", my mind instantly said 'bondage'. Okay, I was just as surprised as you, but anyway, cute animals in distress is always a good way to start a story.

Francophilia

[Note: Check This $#!% Out was originally a seperate blog but is now a feature of patokon blog ] Since my kindergarten class where we had a guest teacher with a monkey puppet that spoke only French, I've been interested in the French language. My interest never went as deep as my interest in Asian languages, but deep enough that I have several dozens of books in or about French. My first French movie exposure was the stylish thriller DIVA . The opening opera scene still gives me goosebumps just due to the amazing singing of Wilhelminia Wiggins Fernandez . It would be another few years before I got to see Luc Besson's La Femme Nikita . A few years after that I saw the fantastic comedic horror (or horrific comedy) Delicatessen , and the classic slapstick spy comedy, The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe . I really enjoyed these two genres of French film, the comedy and the action thriller and always looked forward to finding new works by these actors and direct...

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