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 wonderful little application called Stanza. Essentially its an eBook reader, and there are thousands of books that are in the public domain and are available to download for free! I have been reacquainting myself with the works of Robert E. Howard, H.P. Lovecraft, and thrilling to the adventures of The Spider: Master of Men! They are a lot of fun and worth it for the apoplectic prose alone! There are always blood red rages, victory against hopeless odds and a diabolical villain being thrown bodily from a tower or parapet to gibbering throngs below. Great stuff!
The sketch was done in ballpoint pen in a Strathmore sketchbook. I scanned the sketch and place it into the comic layout to be inked digitally with a Wacom tablet in Photoshop.
