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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 … 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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Room With a View

Posted on October 7, 2009 by Tina Garceau

View from a window in Amsterdam.

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Teenage Beast

Posted on October 5, 2009 by Joe_Williams

Another sketchbook variation of the Teenage Beast A.K.A. Goo Goo Muck that I did back in the 1980s. In true, ’80s, monster movie fashion as the movie progresses, our hero turns into a bigger and badder monster as the remnants … Continue reading →

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‘Lantic City

Posted on October 1, 2009 by Joe_Williams

Some time back in the mid-’80s I saw an ad looking for illustrators for a magazine for and about the gaming industry in Atlantic City. They were looking for sketches so I did some sketches, Xeroxed them and sent them … Continue reading →

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In Search of the Jersey Devil

Posted on September 24, 2009 by Joe_Williams

Remember that show In Search of which ran in the late ’70s? Leonard Nimoy did the voice-over. It was sort of a Chariots of the Gods for syndicated television. I found some sketches that predated the full figure sketch of … Continue reading →

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Punk with a Gun

Posted on September 22, 2009 by Joe_Williams

Sometimes I come across a sketch and have no idea what it was for or what I was aiming at. Such is the case with this punk with a gun. I just thought it was kind of neat so here … Continue reading →

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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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Demon

Posted on September 16, 2009 by Joe_Williams

Another demon/gargoyle from my sketchbook drawn during the mid-’80s. Once again, I think this is when Dan Platt and I were hanging out and shooting the breeze about monsters. I think this was another attempt at the Jersey Devil, but … Continue reading →

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