Category Archives: Sketch

The Return of Cosmic, Maaaannnnnn!!!

Posted on October 8, 2012 by Joe_Williams

Tina’s birthday was fast approaching, and I didn’t have a rock solid, hysterically funny idea for a card so I decided to revisit a friend from last year’s anniversary card, Cosmic, Maaaannnnnn!

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Killing the Sketchbook from Hell

Posted on October 1, 2012 by Joe_Williams

A sketch I did with my favorite indigo blue pencil while sitting at the Ridgeway pool in South Philadelphia this summer. This was the first satisfying sketch I did in the dreaded Sketchbook from Hell!

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Cosmic, Maaaannnnnn!

Posted on October 20, 2011 by Joe_Williams

A war wages within me between traditionally and digitally inking my cartoons. I go back and forth between my pens and brushes and my Wacom tablet. It depends on the job, my mood or whatever is close at hand. Cosmic, … Continue reading →

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Rumble in the Jungle Sketch

Posted on June 2, 2010 by Joe_Williams

I had a lot of fun drawing the most recent edition of Monkey & Bird. It was inspired by the passing of  artistic giant Frank Frazetta and my rediscovery of some terrific pulp adventures via my iPod Touch and a … Continue reading →

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Bell Man & Beverage Boy

Posted on October 15, 2009 by Joe_Williams

This is another fun idea that never quite made it. Back in the late ’80s, early ’90s I was working with a couple of guys trying to dig up freelance clients in need of graphic design and/or illustration. We were … Continue reading →

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The Modern Prometheus

Posted on October 14, 2009 by Joe_Williams

Sometimes I do sketches that I keep meaning to chase down again. This version of the Frankenstein Monster is among them. I was working on a company Christmas card that I wasn’t really enthusiastic about, and this fellow kept on … Continue reading →

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Vampire/Rat Man

Posted on October 8, 2009 by Joe_Williams

Another pen and ink doodle from the mid-80s. Technical pens were my weapon of choice at the time.

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Grimly Fiendish

Posted on September 21, 2009 by Joe_Williams

I was rooting through my sketchbooks looking for old sketches that would have worked out for a Monkey & Bird idea, but of course, I got sidetracked. This is a drawing of a pair of ghouls as envisioned for a … Continue reading →

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More Origins of the Species

Posted on August 26, 2009 by Joe_Williams

Monkey before Bird. A sketchbook sketch in pencil from February of 1988. Be on the look out for Monkey & Bird coming soon to CO2 Comics!

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London After Midnight

Posted on August 24, 2009 by Joe_Williams

Sketchbook sketch from July of 1985 of Lon Chaney from his sadly lost London After Midnight. Done in technical pen in a Strathmore wire-bound sketchbook.

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It Came from the Sketchbook!

Posted on August 17, 2009 by Joe_Williams

I was thinking of formalizing the posts to Willceau Illo News by making regular features. I want to make Monday It Came From The Sketchbook day and post some doodles Tina or I made in a sketchbook and forgot about. So, … Continue reading →

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Driving the Big White Bus

Posted on August 14, 2009 by Joe_Williams

For some reason this is one of my most popular images on my Flickr! account. If I knew puke cartoons were going to be so popular, I would have done little else. I drew this in a sketchbook using Koh-i-nor … Continue reading →

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Sweaty Eddie

Posted on August 4, 2009 by Joe_Williams

I’ve been doing variations on this same panicked/agitated/junkie-in-need-of-a-fix guy for years. I did a version of him as a first assignment in a Sophomore illustration class.  I did a digital version on a Commodore 64 using a Wacom-like tablet called … Continue reading →

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Don’t Look Back

Posted on August 2, 2009 by Joe_Williams

The electric pencil sharpener my Father bought me while I was still in high school died yesterday. I still like and use wooden pencils, and I want to get another one, but it won’t be electric. I’m looking around eBay … Continue reading →

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