Being that Valentine’s Day is right around the corner, Tina and I thought we’d rummage around and dig out some of our own cards we’ve made for that holiday.
RoboCupid by Joe Williams
RoboCop came out in 1987, and, at the time, it was my favorite movie. It was a mash-up of comic book superheroes, science fiction, black comedy and ultra-violence. I remembered getting really charged up when I saw the costume design on the movie poster. Sure there were Star Wars and The Terminator before that, but this looked like a comic book brought to three-dimensional reality. I loved the movie.
…and than they had to water it down with two awful sequels, a worst television series, made-for-TV movies and a cartoon series. Oh, well.
I made this card back in 1988 before all of the sequels and other nonsense. All analog, baby! No digital work was involved in this one. Brushes, ink, technical pens and press type which I had screened back using a stat camera. I traced the logo from a copy of Cinefantastique on to heavy tracing paper. I created the additional letters based on the existing letters. That was fun because I pulled out all of my mechanical drawing tools to do it. I pasted all of the work together, shot a stat for photocopying and sent it out to friends.
