Gerhard's Blog, page 17

Octeract Cat

I got a very nice comment from Derek Gray on the Dec 11 blog post:

“Absolutely gorgeous, and a superb illustration of Grant’s script. Just reading his description was enough to give me a stress headache!“

Thanks Derek, I really appreciate it. My first reaction to reading the script for that panel was, “Oh… okay… uhmm… wait — what?!!?”

For most of the pages I have one Photoshop file for the layout. Some I have two, maybe three versions. That page, I have eleven.

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Here’s another finished page (minus the word balloons) from chapter 5:

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I believe it’s in issue 296 of Heavy Metal. Which I believe is in stores now. I don’t know for sure. Nobody tells me anything.

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Happy New Year!

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Best wishes to everyone from Shelley and Gerhard.

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Merry Christmas!

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Nothing says ‘Christmas’ like pestering the cat.

Best wishes to all.

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It’s co-ho-ho-hold out there!

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Great weather to stay inside and draw.

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Back to the cats…

I’m still wrapping up the layouts on the final chapter. I don’t have any new art to show just yet. So here is a page from the previous chapter.

This is what Grant’s script called for:

“Big pic. We’re behind Wain in his chair. He’s dwarfed by the incredible show in the background – a vast psychedelic fractal head of Tommy Catkins. The idea here is to combine Catkins face with the image of the octeract… to create the origin of the Louis Wain psychedelic wallpaper cat from his allegedly schizophrenic period – here, the suggestion is that Wain’s insanity did not impede his progress as an artist – that he was an Edwardian sentimentalist, THEN a Futurist, THEN in his fractal flower-face drawings, a pioneer of blacklight hippie art and computer animation. Feel free to interpret this in the manner of your choosing, Ger.”

So here is what I came up with:

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FINALLY!!!

After a month of 10 – 12 hour days of cleaning, repairing, painting and moving everything we own (often several times… we had to pile things in one room so we could renovate another, then empty that room to renovate the first room, etc… repeat as necessary).

I finally have a studio!

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Now, to get back to work.

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We’re on a Hallway to Hell…

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In response to the comment left on last week’s post:

I am trying to finish the last chapter of “smile of the absent cat”, but it seems that every time I start to work on it again, life gets in the way.

The latest interruption was suddenly having only two weeks notice to pack up, renovate and move. We are still in the middle of moving and painting.
All of my drawing stuff is buried under a mountain of other stuff in the upstairs hallway. As soon as I can get back to drawing again, my number one priority is to finish that last chapter.

There were 4 previous chapters published in Heavy Metal Magazine as they were completed. Chapter 5 is coming out soon in issue #296. I am hoping that chapter 6 will be in issue #298.

The whole 48 page story will be collected into a book and published by Heavy Metal. Hopefully some time early next year.
I have no idea why they have already solicited for the book saying it will be released Oct 2019.

That clearly isn’t the case.

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Service Interruption…

[image error]Our lives are consumed with painting, packing and relocating.

… please do not adjust your set.

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Cerebus on Helloween?

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See… it’s funny cuz, to get by Cerberus (the three headed dog) the Sybil feeds him a spiked honey-cake…

… well I thought it was funny.
Have a Happy Halloween!

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Back from Baltimore

The 20th anniversary Baltimore Comic Con was a blast!

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Here is my contribution to the 2019 Yearbook featuring Blacksad:

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And a couple of commissions that I completed before the show and took with me:

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[image error] Magik, pencils by Bret Blevins, inks by Tom Palmer and backgrounds pencil and inks by me based on this original cover:



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