The Offenders! Ah, the memories...

This week's Hulk featured the "Offenders".

My very first, nationally published work was the Offenders!

Yes, it's tacky. I was young. I needed the exposure. Unfortunately, the magazine's index page credited the art to "Terry Callen."

(Btw, the unfortunately-placed sword and hilt wasn't positioned there intentionally. Ah, the ignorance of youth.)

The year was 1981. My art was a "Silly Cover" in the now long-defunct comic magazine Amazing Heroes. I had submitted the "Offenders" to the Comic Journal, as they used to print fan art in the letter pages. An editor named Peppy White wrote me stating they were starting a brand new comic magazine called Amazing Heroes. My art had given him the idea to begin a regular feature called Silly Covers. Mine would be the very first one. I was thrilled to see in printed AH #4.

How to Annoy People

A few years ago, I wrote four comic strips appearing in the Kansas City Star, which a friend of mine, Rich LaPierre, drew. I wanted to throw some random thoughts out there without having to work them into a Halo & Sprocket story. Here's one of 'em. Click to enlarge.

Spider-Man: Things you didn't know.

Before the first Spider-Man movie hit the theaters in 2002, the Kansas City Star newspaper asked a few local artists to create short strips about Spider-Man to celebrate its release. I did the one shown below, which was later reprinted in the Comics Buyers Guide. Click to enlarge.

Since I drew it before the movie was released, I had no idea the story would include a joke about things sticking to Peter Parker's fingers. (I should also point out the shampoo commercial I referred to was much too old to use...)

This strip is a bit similar to my cruder The Truth About Superman.

Magneto the Magician

X-men 2 is one of my favorite movies. As I was watching it recently, I realized something odd as Magneto was preparing to escape his prison. Since he can only control metal, how did he...

Well, I'll let the guard explain...

Silly Rabbit

I thought of this idea a few days ago and it amused me. I couldn't think of a comic book application for it, so I drew it and submitted it to Threadless.com. (If you don't know about Threadless, designs are voted on and scored. If the scores are high enough, it gets turned into a shirt and sold on the site.)

(Edit 2/14) Hmm, it didn't score well. Maybe people didn't "get it." Yeah... that's probably it.

Verily, if you don't read comics, you won't understand this doodle.