Creature Feature

It's come to happen so much that it's become a truism: The best way to generate work is to leave town.

So I headed off to Los Angeles and got a call from Scene Magazine back in Cleveland. My art director there needed an illustration for the weekly "Night and Day" calendar section. Fortunately, I brought my drawing gear with me and was able to get it done. I drew and inked the piece on my friend's desk, scanned it, and colored/tweaked it with Photoshop and my graphics tablet.

It's an illustration of Ghoulardi, the Cleveland horror host played by Ernie Anderson, before he became the voice of ABC. "Next, on the Love Boat…" That was him.

He was a little before my time. I was more a Superhost guy. Supe used to show kids' drawings off on his Saturday double-feature show, and frequently showed off mine. That kind of early validation probably got me into an art career as much as anything else.