Dan Henk's Blog, page 54

I talk with tattoo legend Jay Wheeler!

Trying to keep on top and remain relevant as we enter the apocalypse, this is an interview I did with Jay Wheeler https://tattmag.com/jay-wheeler/

Netflix all day!

Looking for a new series to bide the time while we wade through the apocalypse?
Check out Locke & Key.
Based off a graphic novel series written by Joe Hill (Steven King’s son) and illustrated by the very talented Gabriel Rodriguez, this first season is well filmed, well acted, and well written.
I would say it’s the best series since Stranger Things (better than season 2), and along the same vibe.

Little talk with Mark Blanchard

about his Last Rights and his tattoo career so far!
https://tattmag.com/mark-blanchard/

Back from the Dead!

Back in print after a brief hiatus, and bigger than ever, is the new issue of Splatterpunk! With a cover by your’s truly. I used Paul and Michael from the shop as models by the way…I think it says something about our work dynamic!

Indecision t-shirt art!

I did this cartoon for the t-shirt sold by the band Indecision on the tour for their album “Release the Cure”.
It’s based on a real action by our government. They went into a minority neighborhood (in California I think) in the ’50s, told them they were giving out a free vaccination, and shot them full of radiation. They did the same thing to a crew on a battleship. They weren’t sure what radiation did in those days, and used the unsuspecting citizens as guinea pigs.

The Downfall of Captain America

My last submission to Marvel comics, this was in about 1996 when I submitted to a round of comic companies (something i had been doing for years). Kitchen Sink liked my work and wanted to publish me but they went out of business. DC sent my stuff to their Paradox Press black and white division, who also agreed to publish me but also went out of business. Caliber Press and Eclipse had folded, and sent me letters saying so. Marvel comics, however, refused to look at my stuff unless I drew their characters. So this was the third page of a short I did for them feauting an utra-violent Captain America. Needless to say, it did not go well

I’m in Jersey’s Stepping Out Magazine

They asked me who I would induct into the Rock and Roll hall of fame and why. My nomination is the band Deadguy, and in a broke quip I try to explain why

Journal of the Gun Years

Richard Matheson is such a great writer, that even in a genre I’m not a huge fan of, I still enjoyed this story.
It’s kind of a gritty, personal take (for thematic reasons, it’s supposedly the diary of a famous gunslinger) on the old west.
More of a depressing, downward spiral that rings true to life rather than a thrilling, shoot out by the minute action story, this doesn’t compare to my favorite books by him, like “I am legend”, but it’s still an entertaining, and a fairly short, read.

My brief foray into Sci-Fi

Back when I first moved to NYC in 1998, and right after my disastrous interview with Andrew Helfer from the DC Comics Vertigo line, I decide that maybe I should do painted book covers. Penguin Books like my stuff, and asked me to resubmit later. I decided that meant I needed more “tear pages”, which would be published work. I figured the best way to get that would be to do some magazine covers.
It looked like the only genres that bought painted covers were sci-fi and fantasy magazines (there were very few horror magazines, and they were mostly indies). I chose sci-fi, and submitted to the only two I could find, Isaac Asimov and Analog (little did I know both had the same publisher).
The editor got back to me (I think her name was Irene), and said she liked my paintings, but did see any that were science fiction. So I decided to paint some sci-fi, and these were the first two. I planned to do three, but after 80 hours I was so frustrated I tore up the third one. I then found out how rarely the last two sci-fi magazines put out issues, and went instead into something else.

Books and more books!

Some of the book and magazine covers I’ve done over the years