{"id":42853,"date":"2024-03-20T20:54:57","date_gmt":"2024-03-21T00:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?page_id=42853"},"modified":"2024-10-04T07:40:33","modified_gmt":"2024-10-04T11:40:33","slug":"post-apocalyptic-new-jersey","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/it-came-from-the-sketchbook\/post-apocalyptic-new-jersey\/","title":{"rendered":"Post Apocalyptic New Jersey"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"\"Post Apocalyptic New Jersey<\/strong>
\nThis all started with a crazy idea I had for my son’s Halloween costume in 2015<\/a>. My initial idea was “What if Star Wars was made as a low budget movie in the 1965 rather than the late ’70s?”<\/em> It would have been cobbled together with items from army surplus stores and recycled props from other movies. As I worked on the costumes and the many doodles that followed, I jettisoned the Star Wars<\/em> idea and developed a tale of Post Apocalyptic New Jersey<\/em>. Following a nuclear conflagration in 1981, the once verdant Garden State<\/em> is reduced to a hellscape overrun by mutants, monsters and merciless marauders. The Atomic Warrior<\/em> figures into this world along with a cavalcade of other freaks. This is the skeleton of a story to which I am adding flesh in my sketchbooks. It may be a comic one day.<\/p>\n

Click the images below for a larger preview and then cycle through the images by swiping on a tablet or by using the arrow keys on your keyboard.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\"Atomic <\/a>
Atomic Warrior Halloween 2015 <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Streaky\" <\/a> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Mask\" <\/a> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Atomic <\/a>
Atomic Warrior early sketch <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Loser <\/a>
Loser of the Swamps <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Atomic <\/a>
Atomic Warrior skulks <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Atomic <\/a>
Atomic Warrior strikes <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"You, <\/a>
You, yeah, you! Stand still, laddy! <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"With <\/a>
With this drawing, I thought COMIC! <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Atomic <\/a>
Atomic Warrior lights up the joint <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Which <\/a>
Which one is Pink? <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"In <\/a>
In New Jersey after the Apocalypse <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"First <\/a>
First drawing of Pink Zeppelin. He just sort of rolled out of a blue Derwent pencil <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Atomic <\/a>
Atomic Warrior in red <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Atomic <\/a>
Atomic Warrior <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"First <\/a>
First Derwent Dark Wash drawing <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"King <\/a>
King Ricky <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Atomic <\/a>
Thumbnail for an Atomic Warrior page drawn with my beloved mechanical pencils with red leads <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Atomic <\/a>
Atomic Warrior swinging an Atomic Saber <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Pink <\/a>
Pink Zeppelin in a moment of calm <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Water <\/a>
Water Witch <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Butcher <\/a>
Butcher Shop Variation or Pink Zeppelin is Peckish <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Charge!\" <\/a>
Charge! <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Costume <\/a>
Costume details <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Playing <\/a>
Playing with blue and red Inktense pencils <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Atomic <\/a>
Atomic Warrior <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Run <\/a>
Run through <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Atomic <\/a>
Atomic Warrior with a raygun <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"The <\/a>
The Thief Thwarted? <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"04-14-2017-PZ\" <\/a> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Looming-Shadow\" <\/a> <\/div> <\/div>
\"confronting-the-thief\" <\/a> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Atomic-Warrior-Prepares-for-Battle\" <\/a> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"White-Heat\" <\/a> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Vermin\" <\/a> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Rat-sketch\" <\/a> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"\u00a9Joe <\/a>
\u00a9Joe Williams <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Doodles <\/a>
Doodles of the fearsome Atomic Warrior <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"The <\/a>
The hideous two-headed, mutant monster that was the horrifying result of the fusion between a Led Zeppelin fan and a Pink Floyd fan. Pink Zeppelin! <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Variation <\/a>
Variation on the Atomic Warrior <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"The <\/a>
The two-headed monster that guards the ruins of a record shop <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"GASP\" <\/a> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"BLAM\" <\/a> <\/div> <\/div>
\"pink-zeppelin-karloff-variation\" <\/a> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Atomic <\/a>
Atomic Warrior <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Atomic <\/a>
Atomic Warrior <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Whoops\" <\/a>
Whoops <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Sad <\/a> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Forager-interrupted\" <\/a> <\/div> <\/div>
\"shotgun-blast\" <\/a> <\/div> <\/div>
\"ticonderoga\" <\/a> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Behind-you\" <\/a> <\/div> <\/div>
\"watercolor-pencil-doodles\" <\/a> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Forager-in-color\" <\/a> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"A <\/a>
A swing and a miss <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Pencil <\/a>
Pencil and watercolor <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Pink <\/a>
Pink Zeppelin Attacks! <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"The <\/a>
The Jersey Legion <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"The <\/a>
The Forager weighs a situation <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Fleeing <\/a>
Fleeing through the weeds <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"The <\/a>
The Forager <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"The <\/a>
The Little Sketchbook Intro <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"SMASH!\" <\/a>
SMASH! <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Coveting <\/a>
Coveting a treasure <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"The <\/a>
The Forager’s C.V. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Thumbnail <\/a>
Thumbnail for a comic page <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Scavenging <\/a>
Scavenging Trio <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Pink <\/a>
Pink swings <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Trying <\/a>
Trying not to think about it <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Forager\" <\/a>
Forager <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Scavengers <\/a>
Scavengers — The Muscle <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"New <\/a>
New Helmet <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"RUN <\/a>
RUN for it! <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Scavengers <\/a>
Scavengers — The Muscle <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Tight <\/a>
Tight spot <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"atomic-warrior-crouched\" <\/a> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Atomic <\/a>
Atomic Warrior faces Pink Zeppelin <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Atomic <\/a>
Atomic Warrior sword aflame <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Not_Fast_Enough\" <\/a> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Scavengers <\/a>
Scavengers – the forager <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Scavengers <\/a>
Scavengers – the muscle <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"punch-ooof\" <\/a> <\/div> <\/div>
\"not-fast-enough-variant\" <\/a> <\/div> <\/div>
\"costume-variants\" <\/a> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"skull-helmet\" <\/a> <\/div> <\/div>
\"hooded-forager\" <\/a> <\/div> <\/div>
\"gurgle\" <\/a> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"uppercut\" <\/a> <\/div> <\/div>
\"main-forager\" <\/a> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Atomic-Warrior-with-Atomic-Sword\" <\/a> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Pink <\/a>
Pink Zeppelin ink <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Pink <\/a>
Pink Zeppelin pencil <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"The-GREEN-GHOUL\" <\/a> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"LightDemon\" <\/a> <\/div> <\/div>
\"atomic-warrior-block\" <\/a> <\/div> <\/div>
\"rumble-record-store\" <\/a> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"pink-zeppelin-tee\" <\/a> <\/div> <\/div>
\"The <\/a>
The Forager <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"The <\/a>
The Muscle <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n
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