More Hotfoot. The first half of this image is assorted footwear designs for a super speedster, and the second half is the construction drawing for a promotional poster I did, featuring the women of the Squadron Premiere. I drew this second picture while sitting in a park, and the duck or goose pictured kept pestering [...]
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In the last decade or two, the ideal of feminine beauty has transitioned from the long, lean ideal of my youth to a more robust, healthy, capable look. This is a good thing, of course, and probably a direct result of Title IX, which made athletic participation so much more possible for girls all [...]
Hotfoot’s design from the back. Why is she standing like that? Had I just read some 90’s comic with their ultra-sexpot bad girls? I have no idea. I was already getting tired of her lightning bolts, as you can see. After the War in Heaven, Hotfoot transitioned to a deep navy blue suit, abandoning the [...]
Hotfoot was one of the original Squadron Premiere characters I conceived of, and her design wasn’t as automatic as you would think it would be. When first thought up, “she” was going to be a “he,” and he was going to be long and skinny. I soon abandoned that idea, and the science fiction version [...]
Head Case made a brief appearance in issue six. The idea of a tiny little guy operating this robot character struck me as vaguely funny, and it is a pretty interesting design. To be honest, I never thought up a back story for Head Case, because his appeal pretty much begins and ends at his [...]
The French Curve has only made a background appearance in issue six to day. I never actually figured out what her powers are, but she was really built on the concept of a voluptuous woman (curves) from France. Not high concept, I’ll warrant you that. Most of the women that appear in the comic have [...]
Life is funny. When I was a kid, I drew lots of comics. These were terribly crude affairs, and as incredibly trite as you would expect most 6-10 year-olds to write. But, I never forgot the characters I made up. The Clump appeared in several of his own stories, and he was the result of [...]
Harvey Torres, the Tailor. Harvey is one of my favorite characters. He’s big in this drawing, but in his appearances in the comic he’s even bigger yet. If you haven’t noticed, I love to draw almost every variation of the human body, and the Tailor is a real treat for me. Ad to this his [...]
Molly the cyborg girl went through many different designs, and I was changing her look right up to her first appearance. Benita’s original concept was of a girl who was more machine than human, and whose form and function didn’t necessarily match that of the human body. For a while she looked sort of “Robocop” [...]
My first conception for Lacerator was as a Hispanic tough guy. When he appeared in issue six, though, Benita gave him surfer-dude language, and for me the character came together. So, he’s a southern California surfer dude, complete with the lingo. He’s also one of Tactical’s original four supporters, which includes Alaric, Skorn, and Warmonger, [...]
