Once upon a time (that time being around 1980), a magazine in south Florida called Easy Times hired me to paint a cover for an issue that focused on a small group of hot young comedians. And so “The Comedians,” as I named it, was born. In this blast-from-the-past, see how many of them you can identify. If you get them all, you’re probably as ancient as I am.
(My thanks in particular to Muffy McClung Berlyn, the editor at that time who green-lighted the cover.)
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Sherman’s set the Wayback Machine for the 1960s, when I gravitated into art school, only to suffer–in my second year–a catastrophic apartment fire that wiped out 100% of the charcoal drawings and oil paintings I’d done in those two years (but not, amazingly, my first attempt at a short story, written for a night class I was taking). It’s only recently that I’ve started looking back at some of that illustration work (most of what I drew or painted fits that category). So I’m thinking maybe I’ll post a few of the survivors just for shits and giggles, starting with this Disney Fantasia-inspired technical pen rendition of Chernobog…because I always go for the light subjects.
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