Dan Henk's Blog, page 56
September 15, 2019
At the
September 8, 2019
Logo for the band More Complete Psychosis
Way back in 1997, I did this illustration for the ep, flyers, and stickers by the band More Complete Psychosis. I also got in a fight with and knocked out a member of an opening band that disrespected them, but that’s another story.
September 7, 2019
The 2016 Horror Calendar Fiasco
Painful Pleasures produced the one the year before, but Tattoo Media Ink stepped in, I had a sit down chat with Carlo, and he agreed to release the 2016 Horror Calendar as a pull out insert in the December release of on of the Skin Art magazines. So, as per my usual routine,I went about securing the talents of 11 artists who would contribute a page. Tom Taylor, Andy Barrett, Stefano Alcantra, Brian Murphy, Paul Booth, Bob Tyrell, Jeff Zornow, Timothy Boor, Buz Hasson, Chet Zar, Ron Russo, and Cecil Porter all contributed. Buz illustrated the dates portion for the artists who only contributed a picture, and me and Tommy Lee Wendtner provided cover paintings.Then, a month before it was to come out, Carlo died. He was the principle owner, and the magazines went on hiatus.
When his silent partner, Al, resurrected them, it was already February of 2016, and he published the calendar as the middle pages of Tattoo Review 174.
Not at all what I was hoping for, and I apologize to all of the participating artists.
September 2, 2019
Almost done
With this Frazetta based leg sleeve on Robert. Definitely one of my favorite pieces.
August 21, 2019
“Watching The World Burn.”August 20, 2019
Ringworld
Just finished the sci-fi classic Ringworld, and I was seriously underwhelmed.Let me start out by removing a few caveats.
I’ve read three of Larry Niven’s collaborations with Jerry Pournelle.
A Mote In God’s Eye, Footfall, and the absolutely magnificent Lucifer’s Hammer.
So it’s not a case of disliking the writing style from an earlier era, with more build up, more characterization, and less urgency. I’m a fan of those elements. The problem was, that the influence of Jerry Pournelle apparently gives the books a much better flow and the characters more depth. But that’s only half of the failing of this book, as the other, and arguably greater portion, is that Larry took the easy way out.
It’s like when a movie about a worldwide pandemic only focuses on one small and stationary group of people, and none of them manage to accomplish much.
Slight spoilers, but a crew arrives on an alien world, everything revolutionary has already occurred, the author fails to elaborate on any of the details, and all that’s left are primitives. The struggle to leave the Ringworld is essentially the whole book, and even then it ends abruptly.
August 16, 2019
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