{"id":1076,"date":"2010-06-02T11:44:25","date_gmt":"2010-06-02T16:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=1076"},"modified":"2023-01-02T20:28:06","modified_gmt":"2023-01-03T01:28:06","slug":"rumble-in-the-jungle-sketch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2010\/06\/02\/rumble-in-the-jungle-sketch\/","title":{"rendered":"Rumble in the Jungle Sketch"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I had a lot of fun drawing the most recent edition of Monkey & Bird.<\/a> <\/em>It was inspired by the passing of artistic giant Frank Frazetta<\/a> 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<\/a>, H.P. Lovecraft<\/a>, and thrilling to the adventures of The Spider: Master of Men!<\/a> 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!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[49,53,16],"tags":[5,3666,3663,25],"class_list":["post-1076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-came-from-the-sketchbook","category-monkey-bird","category-sketch","tag-joe-williams","tag-monkey-bird","tag-sketch","tag-sketchbook"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-hm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2004,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2010\/12\/11\/the-boaring-details\/","url_meta":{"origin":1076,"position":0},"title":"The BOARing Details","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"December 11, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's the pencil sketch of the boar character (sorry - I haven't named him) from our most recent installment of Monkey & Bird. 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