I try to be creative in my stolen moments away from my day job.
Last summer I produced a modest but generous ashcan 84 page sketchbook - click the cover to order
a sampling of the contents:
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Within Them - charcoal/mixed media - GKZ
this is a fragment of a 3X4 ft pen+ink drawing - GKZ
Below is a cross section of a few of the many sketchbooks I've been focusing on lately. There are some more developed
versions of these in my blogs.
By combining the two sketches above,
I arrived at the image below -
it was a freebie commission that I
lost interest in once I got to this stage.
Below at left is the cover by me to the first issue of Macabrella (I have a limited
number of copies of the first issue available -
sorry kiddies, 'mature readers only'. Please inquire.)
At right is the 'collaboration':
Michael Wm. Kaluta did a b/w convention sketch
of the lone figure and I did the rest.
Both are colored pencil.
No. 1 GKZ, No. 2 GKZ after Mr. Kaluta!
Macabrella was conceived of and
written by William J. Laughlin, (1964-2004)
to whom I am grateful for my only 'slick'
published work and arranging the 'collaboration'.
Neither would have happened without him.
center-spread from Macabrella no.1..
below, what would have been the center-spread for no.2,
and the last page from the same story.
Inks by Alex Novitski
Misc unpublished comics stuff...larger scans at my site
Above, inks by Alex Novitski, pencils GKZ
Part of a '6th Sense' proposal
Writers, Artists, Illustrators,
Artistic Collaborators, Editors, Publishers,
Wealthy Patrons, Fellow Weirdos, $eriou$ offer$,
etc.
Fyi to those who may find my page familiar -
I deleted my old page in October 06,
and put this one up Jan 07.
Art/Illustration:
Fantastic Art, Alfred Kubin, Symbolism, Frantisek Kupka, Edvard Munch, Frazetta, Richard M. Powers, Jim Fitzpatrick,
Jan Toorop, Odlion Redon, Harry Clarke, Felicien Rops, Giovanni Segantini, Johan Thorn Prikker, Virgi Finlay,
James Ensor, Austin Osman Spare,Frank C. Pape, Ernst Fuchs, Grandville,Remedios Varo, Max Beckmann, Antonio Gaudi,
German Expressionism, Futurism, Max Klinger, Gustave Moreau, H.R. Giger, Mati Klarwein, Umberto Boccioni,
Arnold Bocklin, Robert Venosa, Patrick Woodroffe, Amano, Gustav Klimt, Paul Klee, Kandinsky, Salvador Dali, Max Ernst, Surrealism, Visionary Art,
Leonora Carrington, Pollock, Fernand Khnopff, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Jean Delville, Franz von Stuck, Dorothea Tanning,
Roger Dean, Aubrey Beardsley, Henry Darger, G.B. Piranesi, Alphonse Mucha, Durer, Dore, Otto Dix, Art Deco, Art Nouveau,
Egon Schiele,
Comics:
Michael W. Kaluta, Berni Wrightson, Barry Windsor-Smith, Alex Nino,
Heavy Metal, Moebius,Epic Illustrated,Star Reach,George Perez, Winsor McCay, Walt Kelly, Jim Starlin, Gene Colan, Walt Simonson, Promethea, Micronauts, Black Bolt, The Inhumans, Silver Surfer, the original 70's Deathlok, Ralph Reese, Peter Kuper, Gil Kane, Jim Aparo, Brendan McCarthy,Jim Woodring, Chris Ware, Dan Clowes, Chester Brown, Bryan Talbot, Jae Lee, Leonardo Manco, Bill Sienkiewicz, Baron Storey, Mike Allred, P. Craig Russell, Kyle Baker, The Spectre, 'bronze age' comics, Underground Comix, Zap Comix, Last Gasp, Slow Death, Skull Comix, R. Crumb, Robt. Williams, Rand Holmes, Spain Rodriguez, S, Clay Wilson,Rick Griffin, Juxtapoz, Vertigo, Warren, Creepy, Eerie, Vampirella, EC COMICS, 70's Guardians of the Galaxy, Jack Cole, Don McGregor, Killraven, Rich Buckler,House of Mystery, House of Secrets, DC bronze horror comics, Tales from the Crypt, Skywald, Horror-Mood, Psycho, Nightmare, Scream, Paul Pope, Richard Corben, Jess Jodloman, Steranko, Paul Gulacy, Gene Day, Russ Heath, Tony DeZungia, Gerry Talaoc, Ruben Yandoc, Alfredo Alcala, Jerry Grandinetti, Neal Adams, Famous Monsters of Filmland, Dr. Fate, Dr. Strange, Man-Thing, Swamp-Thing, America's Best Comics, Stephen R. Bissette, John Tottleben, Taboo, Adam Warlock, Thanos, Jack Kirby, Drulliet, Caza, Silvio Cadelo, Gary Gianni,
John Buscema, Mike Ploog, Tom Sutton, Jack Jaxon, Art Spiegleman, Werewolf by Night, Doug Moench, Shang-Chi Master of Kung Fu, Joe Orlando, Graham Ingels, Rick Veitch, Alan Moore, Faust, Comics Journal for the interviews...
Books:
Philip K. Dick, Harlan Ellison, Baudelaire, Lautremont, Gerard De Nerval, H.P. Lovecraft, Clarke Ashton Smith,Chuck Palahniuk,
William S. Burroughs, Robert Anton Wilson, J.K, Huysmans, August Strindberg (prose), Edgar Alan Poe, Antonin Artaud, Star of the Unborn by Franz Werfel, The Other Side by Alfred Kubin, Kafka, E.T.A. Hoffmann, JG Ballard,... basically early and/or 60's/70;s Science fiction, fiction or memoirs by artists, Fin De Siecle/Decadent/Symbolist Frou Frou and other pretentious literary esoterica....I have tons of books that I intend to read but will probably never find the time.
Movies:
Zardoz, Christopher Walken, Ken Russell, The Devils, Mahler, Savage Messiah, Klaus Kinski, Blood for Dracula, Flesh for Frankenstein (aka Andy Warhol's), Logan's Run, THX-1138, Fantastic Planet, Frankenstein The True Story (old TV mini-series), Terry Gilliam, Brazil, El Topo, The Holy Mountain, Jodorowsky, Stanley Kubrick, Vanishing Point, John Frankenheimer's Seconds, the original Manchurian Candidate, Frankenstein Conquers the World (giant japanese frankenstein! yeah!!), I Was a Teenage Frankenstein (!),Steve McQueen, Ray Harryhaussen,Return to Oz, Sergio Leone, pre-mustache Charles Bronson, Fritz Lang, Oliver Reed, Helena Bonham Carter, Bill Murray, All That Jazz,Robin Williams, Orson Welles, Johnny Depp, David Cronenberg, All of Chuck Heston's sci-fi movies, Jim Jarmusch, Wicker Man (the original), Bladerunner,Michelle Pfeiffer, Dustin Hoffman, Al Pacino,Freaks, Lisa-Marie (Burton),Eraserhead, David Lynch, Philip S.Hoffman, Peter O'Toole, The Ruling Class, The Lion in Winter, The Loved One, The Man Who Would Be King (probably my favorite movie), Jan Svankmajer, Quay Brothers,Fellini, Hellraiser, William Shatner, Clint Eastwood, Jack Nicholson, mostly 60's and early 70's stuff...more recent stuff: Spirited Away, Immortel, the first half of the first and second half of the last Matrix, A Scanner Darkly, Happiness, Batman Begins, Mirrormask, Saw, V for Vendetta, Charlie Kaufman, Memento, Following, Hellboy, Brotherhood of the Wolf, American Splendor, The Pledge, Beavis and Butthead do America, Office Space, Tristam Shandy, Minority Report...more...
Music:
Frank Zappa, Brian Eno, Hawkwind, Peter Hammill, Van Der Graaf Generator, Primal Scream, Massive Attack, Iron Maiden, Jim Carroll, CAN, The Residents, Acid Mothers Temple, Pharoah Overlord, Sleep, Circle, Laddio Bollocko, David Bowie, Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, Deep Purple, Pink Floyd, The Who, Beatles, Rolling Stones, Black Sabbath,(etc...) Stereolab, "Krautrock", King Crimson, Tangerine Dream, Syd Barrett,Progressive/Space/Psychedelic Rock, Nektar, Magma, GONG, Roxy Music, Amon Duul II, Spoon, Kinski, Skullflower, Bill Laswell, Farflung, Ozric Tentacles, Aphrodite's Chid:666, Pressurehed, Nik Turner, Lalo Schifrin. Hans Zimmer, Ultra Lounge, Esquivel, Miles Davis, Gil Evans, Thelonius Monk, John Coltrane, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Helios Creed, Chrome, Sex Pistols, Ramones, Beastie Boys, Talking Heads, Phil Manzanera/801, Jah Wobble, WIRE, The Fall, Funkadelic, Godspeed You Black Emporer, Mahler, Stravinsky, Shostakovich, Ligeti, Radiohead, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, John Zorn, Faust, Captain Beefheart, Klaus Schulze, The Atomic Bitchwax, Monster Magnet, Audioslave, Iggy Pop, Johnny Cash, Soundgarden, Lou Reed, John Cale, Velvet Underground,...on and on and on...pretty much anything decent that's not played over and over and over in the supermarket or on the radio. Mostly endless jamming or ambient mantra-like stuff that is conducive to working...
TV:
LOST, Soap, The Daily Show, Taxi, Barney Miller, Simpsons, South Park, BBC's The Singing Detective, the Prisoner, original Star Trek, Twilight Zone, Outer Limits, Red Dwarf, Black Adder, H.R. Puffinstuff, Farscape, 1967 Spiderman cartoon, Beavis and Butthead, Ultraman, Devilman, Battle of the Planets, Gormenghast, Aeon Flux
Radio:
Joe Frank