Teenage Beast
Back in the mid-1980s, I was working on what I thought would be a classic monster like Universal Studios’ classic stable of monsters like Dracula, Frankenstein and the Wolf-Man only my monster would be firmly established in the then current milieu of PUNK. The creature was based on the Cramps song “The Goo Goo Muck” which was a cover of an obscure 1962 recording by Ronnie Cook & The Gaylads. I was afraid that the term Goo Goo Muck was trademarked or copyrighted in some way so I called my character the Teenage Beast. I worked on some drawings, some notes and wrote an outline, but for reasons forgotten, my ardor for the project faded. My work went into storage.
Flash forward nearly 40 years to Christmas 2024 when I was rummaging around some flat file cabinets in my studio and found a pair of pencil drawings of the Teenage Beast which I decided to finish with my Sailor Fude De Mannen fountain pen. I was pleased with the results and I found myself fired up about a cartoon character I created while Reagan was still in the White House.
So I am working on this character anew, and I will be collecting drawings old and new in this gallery page.
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- Teenage Beast Valentine
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- Teenage Beast and Punk Rock Girl
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- Detail: Teenage Beast and Punk Rock Girl
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- Chase through the woods
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- Cornered
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- Detail: Cornered
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- The End?
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- Aging Bristol Board
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- Teenage Beast 14×17 No. 2
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- Original
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- Photostat
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- Teenage Beast logo sketch
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- Teenage Beast logo sketch
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- The Goo Goo Muck and his late date
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- A different angle of the Goo Goo Muck and his late date
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- Teenage Beast logo sketch
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- Started to ink old drawing. Logo added anew
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- Inking in progress
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- Levels adjusted to remove background
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- Detail
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- Try at a logo in sketchbook
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- Sailor Fude De Mannen Fountain Pen with 55º Nib
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- Swimmer’s Ear on WKDU
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- Goo-Goo Muck sketch from the ’80s
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- 1980s Goo-Goo Muck sketch based on a guy I knew
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- Goo-Goo Muck’s final form
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- Detail • Brian Bubonic
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- Brian Bubonic
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- Another pass at the death of the punk rock girl
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- A pass at the death of the punk rock girl
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- Teenage Beast is having a grand time as lost souls burn in torment.
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- Limp Locks
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- Gurgle!
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- Clawed and exhausted
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- Fabriano 1264
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- Canson XL Mixed Medi
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- Detail • Coming Through!
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- Coming through!
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- Swipe — AUUUUGGGHH!
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- Detail • Swipe — AUUUUGGGHH!
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- Race with the Devil
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- Teenage Tiger looking for a feast
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- Zoinks!
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- Change-o!
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- The Teenage Beast’s growth spurt
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- Slash
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- Ink and wash test
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- No tears for the damned
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- What’s a tramp like you doing in a place like this?
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- Larry rebuffed. Are you serious?
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- Like a cornered rat
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- Brian Bubonic sings “Blood from the nose”
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- The Teenage Beast prior to entering his more monstrous manifestations
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- Brian Bubonic sings “Skylab is falling”
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- Towards the Beast’s final form
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- Teenage Beast in flames
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- Teenage Beast in flames, again
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- Is it hot in here or is it just me?
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- Teenage Beast Gray Tonal Paper
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- The Beast of Times
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- I traced my drawing
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- I flipped the tracing
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- The Other Side
