3/10/10
Check out some old and new images on our new
Gallery page, won't you?
Desperate times, our leaders appears to be
telling us, call for
completely unjustifiable distractions, and so we're excited almost to
the point of incontinence to be kicking off this last year of a truly
wretched decade with news of our brand
new art book:
...in which you'll find an outsized selection of our patented
minimally-attired swordsbabes and victimettes matching wits, weapons
and come-hither looks with the ooky -- and yet somehow timelessly loveable monsters who
would make them theirs.
Not only does F&L's Bs&Bs
unveil 40 new paintings on the general theme of: monsters-insistent,
girls-edible...
...but we've also assembled -- especially for this
volume -- a collection of our favorite greyscale pieces, many
of which Steve has lovingly repainted in digital color...
...as well as never-before-seen commissioned pieces (you think we're twisted), a choice assortment
of Steve's delightful color pencil studies, and an introduction that
does nothing to advance humanity in its quest for knowledge. What more
could you ask for? How about a quality hardcover binding? All this and
more will be made available to you in scant weeks, exclusively through
the Science Fiction Book Club.
Flood their website with so many page views that Amazon is compelled to
take them over!
It might not seem so if you're currently trying to slap some feeling
back into your frozen forehead -- but May is just around the corner,
and as attending guests, we're compelled to remind you to plan your
very existence around the upcoming MCBA SpringCon.
Everyone and his brother will tell you the twice yearly MCBA affairs
are the friendliest, funnest and most comicky conventions around, and
if you've ever been chewed up and spit out by any of their planet-sized
competitors (cough-Comicon-cough), you'll be kissing the
concrete floor of the State Fair Grandstand in gratitude for the
breatheable air and ability to move from Terry Beatty's table to Nadja
Baer's table without being brought down by an elbow to the kidney.
Steve will be making one of his very rare public appearances, and he's
limbering up his signing hand even as we write this. Get his extremely
rare signature on stuff you've brought along, or on one of the many top
quality, not-made-in-China items we'll have with us.
And if all this isn't enough to convince you to show up, we have two
words for you: Jim Shooter.
Dig out those copies of Star Brand!
We've just put the finishing touches on a top-secret project for Mayfair Games, publishers of
the wildly popular Settlers of Catan series. We can say no more at this
time, other than that it does involve a character of a babeish nature.
Rest assured, we'll be flogging the pants off it, if not her, as soon
as we're able.
11/15/09
Hey, kids, comics!
We're
herewith introducing the F&L Virtual Storytime
Comics Corner, a quiet place where you can kick back with a cigarillo
and, hopefully, really low expectations, and revisit some lighthearted,
lightweight F&L sequential graphic type content without getting powdered sugar donut all over
your hard copy. (Or something like that, but less suggestive-sounding.)
We're
kicking things off with a couple of stories from our Little Black Book
series ("Alienated", from Vol.1, and "Cursed Kiss", from Vol.2), and
"Haunted House of Lingerie", from HHL Vol.3.
(Steve did
"HHL" in a combination of warm and cool grayscale markers and airbrush,
achieving a subtle multi-color effect that was lost when the story was
printed in black & white in the book. We're reproducing it here as
the original art looked, and the difference is quite striking.)
We'll add
stories every now and again, so check back for updates.
Ally Fell and Duddlebug, the swell guys who brought F&L and an
international host of others to you with Erotic Fantasy Art, have done
it again with Fantasy Art Now 2
and/or The Future of Fantasy Art.
We're about 98% sure that The Future of Fantasy Art is the US edition
of Fantasy Art Now 2, since the authors, page count and dimensions are
the same. But you never know. We hope you'll do your part to keep the
worldwide economic spinning plates in the air, and order a copy of
each. FAN 2/FFA is a 192pp. hardcover, approx. 10" X 10", available here and here.
(The Future of Fantasy Art is also available from
uber-comic-and-fantasy-art-book guy Bud
Plant.
Details (as they say) are
sketchy at this point, but we're currently assembling new material and
reconfiguring some vintage stuff for our next book, a hardcover
compilation scheduled for release early in 2010. More info and images
to follow shortly, we hope.
9/26/09
We've added seven new originals to our Originals
pages, plus five new studies and pencil drawings to our Pencils page. View (and buy) away, if you're
so inclined!
Also new are 24 additional prints,
including Uncle Creepy, Cousin Eerie, Vampirella, Valkyrie and
Enchantress as you've never seen them before (alas, not in the same
print!)
We believe in striking while the iron is colder than the
far side of Pluto, which is why we've waited a mind-homogeninizing two
and a half years to release the second
volume in our Pocket Pal convention-style sketchbook series.
PP
Vol.2 collects tonal studies, private commissions, rare and unseen
early (as in late '70's) paintings and drawings, heroes, babes,
monsters, and all nine images from our Fallcon 20th Anniversary sketch
card set. Signed, limited to 500, and easily stashable in your
manpurse, there's (at least) a girl on every page, and color on every
cover -- and it's available right here, right now.
7/15/09
Our
thanks to everyone who stopped by and said hi at CONvergence's newly
minted Artist Alley, and to the extremely tasteful buyers who helped us
sell out our little corner of the Art Show.
Next week, Rich dons
his protective exoskeleton and heads out to Comic-Con International,
where he, the F&L experience, and enough international erotic
fantasy art to make your eyeballs boil in your skull will be found at
the SQP Publishing Emporium, just inside the Main Entrance to the
Exhibitors Hall at SDCC. Look for the cloud of steam rising from
first-time visitors' pants.
SQP's venerable place in the history of erotic publishing is nicely
highlighted in Tim Pilcher's Erotic Comics: A Graphic History Volume 2.
We're in there as well...
Note: Pay no attention to Rich's thumb.
With
art that runs the gamut from soft "R" to hard "X", extended notes on
the creators, and a foreword by the ever-insightful Alan Moore, EC: AGH V2 is a an
indispensible reference, as well as libidinous
inspiration, and fans of sequential-porn will
find themselves revisiting it again and again. I mean, you can only
pretend to go back to Understanding
Comics so many times.
7/3/09
We're running around bumping into stuff at CONvergence this weekend.
It's
a pretty big, really entertaining show -- but we harbor few illusions
about the likelyhood of someone both happening to be attending and happening to
be reading this.
Still,
we're nothing if not ridiculously over-optimistic. So if you're in the
bar at the Sheraton South, enjoying a Grain Belt, on your notebook (or
whatever it is the kids are calling it these days), and here, for some
reason, please note that they're trying out an Artist Alley this year.
It's on the second floor, across from the Dealer's Room, and we'll be
there from noon until three on Friday and Saturday. Look for the big
Barb Wire poster.
6/3/09
Here's an oil painting, "All Hell", that
Steve did in 1980. We published a b&w version of it in our Pocket
Pal Vol.I, and thought you might like to see a Fastner color palette
from the early days. This was scanned from a Polaroid, since the
original has changed hands a couple of times, and we weren't yet making
transparencies (look it up, digital-agers) of our work when we sold it.
We've finally made good on our promise
to add more images to our Prints page. (This
only took several years.)
Here's our summer convention schedule --
we hope to run into you somewhere!
July 2-5 -- Steve (and possibly Rich)
will be at the local sf/comics/media/all-around-good-time-get-together CONvergence, with prints
and books in the art show, and sketches and originals in the newly
minted (hopefully) artist alley.
July 22-26 -- Rich will be at the SQP
booth at Comic-Con
International, which -- like it wasn't an incalculably vast crush
of seething wetware in years past -- is already totally sold out.
August 13-16 -- We'll hang F&L
originals in the art show, and Rich will have a table with books,
signed prints and additional originals at the best four days in gaming,
Gen
Con Indy.
September 4-7 -- Rich will sketch, and
show and sell stuff in Artist Alley (which has moved to the Hyatt,
probably near the Art Show, this year) at Dragon*Con. Stop by in costume
and get a free sketch of your bad self!
October 10 & 11 -- F&L will
have a table at Fallcon, on
the Minnesota State Fairgrounds. Get the elusive Steve signature on
your various Marvel Superhero Portfolio plates! (The Fallcon page has
yet to be updated from 2008, but we're sure it will be soon.)
October 16-18 -- Steve and Rich will
join fellow fans of the dark fantastic for the intimate, not at all
sinister Arcana 39 in St. Paul.
Slither on by if you can.
Jonathan Ross: In Search
of Steve Ditko
Thanks to fans we met at a recent convention, we
were able to get a look at the 2007 BBC documentary,
In Search
of Steve Ditko. It's
a very decent introduction to the artist and the impact he's had on
fellow pros. Jonathan Ross is without question a
fan, and clearly believes Ditko has gotten far less than his due.
Stan Lee admits that while he's "willing to say"
Ditko
co-created Spider-Man, he still thinks of himself as the actual
creator, because he "came up with the idea". Jerry Robinson, who taught
Ditko early on, remembers him as very serious about his work, and
determined to become a comic book storyteller. Alan Moore and Neil
Gaiman (both
Ditko fans) weigh in on, among other things, Ditko's moral philosophy
(as represented in The Question and Mr. A).
But, as might be expected, there is no interview
with the artist himself, since Ditko has always preferred to let his
work speak for him. Ross flies to New York and phones Ditko's
office
from the entrance to his building. We only hear Ross' side of the
conversation as he asks to come up and meet him. Ditko demurs. Ross
(together with Gaiman, who's along for the ride) goes up anyway. They
come back down 25 minute later with armfuls of Ditko books, and goofy
grins on their faces. Ditko certainly is worthy of a tribute like this
-- too bad no one in this country thought to do it.
3/22/09
We know this is short notice, but we
strongly suggest that on March 28 you drop everything and head straight
for Planet Comicon in Kansas
City. Comic and media stars will abound, Rich will be hunched over his
drawing board in Artist Alley, and, yes -- because this is America --
there will be Playmates.
Microcon
is the spring edition of our local comics extravaganza,
and it's always big fun. With scores of creators and tons of comics and
comic-adjacent accoutrements, it's an early opportunity to get out
there and single-handedly rescue our faltering economy.
Or just stop in and say hi. Steve and
Rich will be there, and as always, it will be a rare opportunity to
acquire that elusive Fastner signature on as much F&L product as
you can dump in front of us. We'll also be open to virtually any kind
of conversational back-and-forth that doesn't involve fairy bust size.
So go ahead: ask us what we thought about the Spirit movie...
Microcon will be held Sunday, April 26,
2009 on the State Fairgrounds in St. Paul.
1/25/09
While we here at the world's coldest
indoor art studio throw ourselves into (1) the
small-in-size-but-big-in-sheer-graphitey-bravado Pocket Pal
II, and (2) an even curiouser follow-up to the heathen hijinx
immortalized in Tricks & Treats, you might want to check out a few
recent and upcoming F&L guest appearances:
The February '09 issue of Art Scene International
features an F&L cover, an interview with the boys, and a how-to
section with step-by-step photos, in which Steve -- using the Tricks
& Treats image Hangin' Around
-- shows and describes each step in the painting process, from scanned
drawing to finished art. For those of you (like Rich) who wonder how
the heck he does it, this is a must-read.
(ASI is published in
Germany, and the English language version should be available in the US
at all purveyors of quality international periodicals, which is to say,
about
three places.)
Coming later this month from Ilex Press is
Erotic Comics: A Graphic History -- Vol. 2., about which the publisher
says:
...crammed full of
exquisite art from around the world and fascinating interviews with the
artists...The book takes a look
at what is currently being published in Europe and Japan, and examines
the new wave of erotic web comics on the Internet, where censorship is
virtually non-existent...
These are the folks who brought you the over-the-top good Erotic Fantasy Art,
so when they say "exquisite", there's every reason to believe they're
not fooling around. This is the kind of company we like to keep, and
we're
thrilled to have a couple of F&L images reproduced therein.
Our many-splendored relationship with the boys at SQP continues, yea, even unto books
with other artists in them.
The ever popular Song series (Fairy, Sword, Mermaid,
with more to come) is cheeks-to-cheek with alluring, dangerous and
wholly unattainable fantasy femmes, undulating about in eye-scorching
full color.
Although our approach isn't quite as...refined...as that of the
way-too-talented Arantza (whose ethereal paintings grace the Song
covers and interior pages), thanks to the big-tent all-inclusiveness of
the Bob & Sal aesthetic manifesto, we've succeeded in insinuating a
few of our images into this very successful series.
 Bait, from Mermaid Song
 Cliffhanger, from Sword Song
Preview and order the entire Song series directly
from the publishers themselves,
and while you're at it, have a leisurely look around at what must
surely be the biggest, bounciest, bizarrest bevy of illustrated fantasy babes on the net.
We're reasonably confident when we say that Martin Arlt is the only
molecular biologist who's publishing his own monster fanzine (insert
your own laboratory
joke here). Not only that, but Mad Scientist
is up to issue 18, and has metamorphized, Jeff Goldblum-like,
from digest-sized b&w to full sized, color cover magazine. Let
the shrieking and castle-storming begin!
Rich has been contributing sketches for several issues, and Steve
colorized the above image (Vat of Evil, from B&B 1) for the cover
of #17. Each Mad Scientist features in depth commentary, reviews, and
profiles of vintage and classic monster/fantasy/sf movies, comics and
TV. The first thirteen issues are sold out, and if you're a fan of the
50's/60's stuff (F&L
cut their teeth on it, so you know it's good!), we suggest you hop on
Martin's graveyard express right
now.
German correspondent Arno Schaetzle introduced
us to a new website
devoted to the international airbrush art/artist scene. Imagery by the
likes of Sorayama, Royo, Michael Mobius, as well as 3D art and lots of
links -- and they're just getting started. Look for an F&L piece in
there somewhere as well!
9/17/08
If you're like us (and if you are, comb
your hair, get an education, and try to make something out of
yourself), you're already getting into
the Halloween spirit, so it's time to remember the most basic rule of
Jack-O-Lantern etiquette, which is, make sure all the pumpkins are dead
before you start carving them up.
Folks who commission originals from
F&L have inquiring minds, and sometimes what they want to know is
what x might look like from y angle.
We've worked on a series of commissions
based on, and as homages to, classic works by the greatest fantasy
artist of all time (in our opinion, and in the opinion of a lot of
people who are in a better position to make the statement than we --
which is a lot of people).
The above is our imagining of a side view of Frazetta's Beauty and the Beast.
Bed
& Bondage 2
is winning friends and influencing people everywhere it goes -- which
isn't altogether that far, since retailers have to make room for a
fresh pallet of Dark Knight product every week. But it's available
from us, and
from our main men at SQP as well.
Can you really look these little
fellas in the eye, and tell them they can't come live with you?
(No, we meant the little red
guys...never mind...)
Fall means local conventions in the Twin
Cities; next month you'll find us, and about 225 other comic creators
from all
over the country, at the 20th anniversary of Fallcon, on the Minnesota
State Fairgrounds in St Paul.
To celebrate the occasion, Fallcon will
be giving away at the door original
collector card art
contributed by a sizable number of their guest creators, most of whom
are -- no surprise -- considerably bigger deals than ourselves. Our
comparative unknowness hasn't stopped us from throwing ten color
sketches of our own into the mix, including
and
And eight more supergirlish portraits.
Again, these, and all the card art
donated by the other guest creators, are not prints, but one-of-a-kind
pieces of original art -- and they're being given away to attendees of Fallcon 20 in
celebration of its big anniversary.
Just a cut above the Zack and Miri Make a Porno tote
bags they'll be handing out at the next Comic-Con.
Later in October, we'll join Scott,
Dwayne, Phillip, Eric, and several dozen additional fellow travelers in
dark fantasy at Arcana 38.
There'll be movies, panel discussions,
guests, consumption of beverages, a ridiculously good art show, and an
even more ridiculously good auction, and generally insightful and
loving rumination about Arkham-inspired fiction and cinema. Cthulhuites
will miss this cozy, extremely well-run con at their own peril!
5/8/08
This may tickle your ivories -- we've
put up an originals
page
of Steve's color pencil studies, mostly from Tricks & Treats, and
Rich's pencil drawings from the original Bed & Bondage. As nearly
as we can tell, this is the least budget-annihilating way of owning an
F&L original, so if you happen to have any rebate check money left
over...
Rich plans to be in artist alley at Wizard World Chicago,
June 26-29, and Dragon*Con in
Atlanta, Aug. 27-Sept.1.
A plethora of F&L product will be
offered by our best friends forever, SQP, at Comic-Con International in
San Diego (July 24-27), as well.
4/10/08
Bed & Bondage 2 proves there are at
least fifty ways to leave your lover unable to move much of anything at
all, body-part-wise.
It includes a hefty selection of Rich's
dwarf-and-woodland-creature-bedecked pencil drawings...
a goodly number of twisted grayscale
paintings by Steve...
and a graphic story that will be of at
least passing interest to anyone who was amused by the shenanigans
depicted on cover of B&B 1.
All tightly encased (not in
rubber, unfortunately) between two brand spanking new, full-color, altogether lurid F&L
covers.
Check here
for a release date.
Some of the brightest new lights in
erotic fantasy illustration are wonderfully represented within the
pages of the recently released Erotic
Fantasy Art (Ilex, 192pp.).
Stalwarts such as Brom, Maitz and
Sperlonga also appear, as do your very disobedient servants.
Illustration in general and girl art in
particular lost a true master with the untimely passing of Dave Stevens.
His women were playful, innocent, sexy and dangerous, often within the
same image. He reintroduced the world to Bettie Page, and his linework
is in a class by itself. We'll definitely miss seeing more of it.
Steranko nuts that we are, we just can't
resist recommending this
page,
wherein he regales us with the untold stories behind some of his most
memorable comic covers. (Click on the "Steranko Commentary" links.)
10/30/07
Steve and Rich connected with friends
old and new, and generally had a whee of a time at local conventions Fallcon (comics) and
Arcana (dark
fantastic) earlier this month.
The Fallcon vibe is relaxed and
friendly, with a ton of creators and a lot of original art on display
(Joel Thingvall's Wonder Woman display was an education in itself). For
all intents and purposes, it's a national convention with a local feel,
and the folks behind it know their stuff.
Arcana guest George Clayton Johnson spun
great stories about writing for the original Twilight Zone series and Ocean's 11
(!). Many of the attendees are professionals and semi-pros, and we got
the sense that everyone at this intimate con was knowledgeable and
enthusiastic about the genre. The auction alone is worth the price of
admission.
If you just can't get enough of us
waxing eloquent here, Jazma
Online has individual interviews with Steve and Rich, as well as a
great many other creators (and a couple of the contestants from Who Wants to Be a Superhero?) Go
to the Interview page; we're in there somewhere.
As the feeble sunlight fades from the
frozen tundra, we're gearing up to crank out an all new series of
drawings, paintings and narrative mischief for our forthcoming Bed & Bondage II. (For those of
you who've requested more
ball gags, we promise to give the notion at least momentary
consideration.)
9/16/07
Embarrassingly long in the making,
F&L's Tricks & Treats (we've referred to it on these pages up
to this point for reasons that will be escaping us at any moment as Sweet Cheeks)
is now available for your amusement and edification...if there's
anything to be learned from immodestly-decked-out babes in intricate
situations -- and we think there is.
Therein you'll find 44 or 45 (it's all a
blur to us now, really) of our latest works, all in blazing
debauch-o-color. If you're even vaguely interested in the less
wholesome side of Halloween, cosplay, or general pagan revelry, you'll
find inspiration and succor within these pages. At an outsized 9" X 12"
and $14.95 US the copy in softcover, can one really go wrong? Or, at
least, any more wrong than the ladies herein depicted have done?
Additionally, for those of you who take
your fondness for F&L imagery to the limit, T&T is also
available in an entirely too respectful hardcover edition, at $24.95. So if
you've been searching in vain for that perfect family treasure to hand
down to the grandkids...
Eventually we hope to offer T&T on
our website, but for now, it's available exclusively from our
publisher. Halloween and Christmas are just around the corner, so
consider obtaining multiple copies for yourself and your clergymen!
Next month we'll pack up our stuff, hop
on the University Ave. bus, and spend a couple of days hanging out at Fallcon 2007.
Nestled unassumingly among the oaks and
the corn dog stands of the Minnesota State Fairgrounds, this con
consistently draws a jaw-dropping line-up of guests, which this year
includes Adam Hughes, Dan Brereton, Steve Rude, Kurt Busiek, a lot of
other creators you've actually heard of, and now -- inexplicably --
us.
Stop by and get stuff signed by Steve,
or just tell Rich to shut the hell up.
Every so often we get extremely polite
requests to use our images in sig tags and tubing, and we're
usually unable to comply because of various contractual agreements and
individual ownership issues.
Now, however, some sets of our stuff are
available via the extremely comprehensive online art showcase at CILM. These guys have
everybody, and the babeosity quotient is off the charts.
7/23/07
The nuances of marketing are more or
less lost on us; moreover, in the star chamber that is our publisher's
mighty merchandising machine, we cast exactly no votes.
Sweet
Cheeks, as a result, will now be submitted for your approval as Tricks & Treats,
and positioned as more of a celebration of all
things Halloweenish, rather than the slobbering, booty-obsessed
bacchanal it in fact is.
The images remain the same, however, and
even a ground squirrel would be able to dope out where we're coming
from. Still, we hope the adjustment bags us that ever-elusive pagan
feminist demographic.
T&T
should be available by early fall, which is an eternity in girl art fan
years, so we've produced an interim offering.
F&L's
Pocket Pal
is a diminutive (5.5" X 8 1/2") sketchbook, dedicated to the
proposition that bad girls (and good ones) come in small packages. This
32 page b&w collection spotlights Steve's popular tonal studies, as
well as many unseen finished paintings.
Pocket
Pal
is signed by Steve and Rich, and limited to 500 copies; it will be
available from Rich at Comic-Con, Wizard World Chicago, and
Dragon*Con.
2/24/07
Illustration House is presenting an
auction of original comic book art February 23-25 in Manhattan.
The auction includes two of our favorite airbrush paintings, Big Gun
(cover for Bill the Galactic Hero #1) and Low Noon (cover for Weird
Western #3).
You can check out the details on these
and other far more legitimate examples of comic book history -- and
place a bid online -- at the Illustration House website.
We rarely work in full airbrush at large sizes anymore, so this would
be a good opportunity to acquire a wholly representative original
F&L artifact.
Or, if you just want to own as much
jaw-droppingly beautiful fantasy art as
possible by the best contemporary creators in
the business, original or not, you could do worse than hunting down a
copy of Spectrum,
the latest volume of which (#13) is on sale now. It's edited and
published by the folks who brought you the Frazetta trilogy, and they
really, really know what they're doing.
(One of our pieces, an image from Little
Black Book 3, is ensconced in its pages, bringing down the property
values only slightly.)
Steve can finally count on one
hand...his family is very proud.
No, what we mean to say is, Steve can
finally count on one hand the number of paintings left to do
for the Sweet Cheeks
project. Once finished, the fate of this massive, year-long, Sistine
Chapel ceiling of an undertaking is out of our hands -- but we hope the
summer of '07 will find you getting a little behind in your reading.
10/24/06
Arcana
saw fit this year to present
F&L with the Minnesota Fantasy Award; we're honored and a
little embarrassed to find ourselves -- for the first and last
time, we assure you -- grouped with the likes of Terry
Gilliam, Lester Del Rey, Ruth Berman, John Sladek, Joe Lansdale, Greg
Ketter and Philip Rahman, of the indispensable Minneapolis-based
publishers Fedogan
& Bremer.
Philip was kind enough to present
us with a beautiful copy of Howard Wandrei's The Eerie Mr. Murphy, which
includes a unsettling
portfolio
of drawings by the author. If you're a fan of the sort of lovingly
crafted books more common to the turn of the last century than the
present day, you really owe it to yourself to check out the Fedogan
& Bremer catalogue.
Arcana also had, per-square-foot, one of
the most intriguing art shows we've seen in a good while, with
originals by Virgil Finlay, Don Maitz, Michael Whelan, Howard Wandrei,
Hannes Bok (!) and Vaughn Bode (!!)
We offer our sincere thanks to Eric
Heideman, Scott Wyatt, Dwayne Olson, and everyone at Arcana 36, for
making us far more welcome than we deserved.
It's not exactly "How Stan and Steve
Create Spider-Man", but we've added an ever-so-brief demo of how we go
about doing page a for one of the little stories you find in Haunted
House of Lingerie and, most recently, Bed & Bondage.
What we've done is taken a page from the
story "Crule & Unusual" (in B&B), and speed-walked you through
it from rough to finished page. You'll be asking, "Why can't you do
this like normal comics guys do?", and we'll answer, "Because it's too
hard."
8/25/06
Rich was standing in the middle of
of the main hall at Comic-Con International on Saturday, about when
they had
to stop selling tickets because it was just too ridiculously crowded,
and
he got the same feeling as when he watched everynerd Peter
Jackson walk right over immaculately appointed Hollywood
royalty to accept just about every Academy Award there was for Lord of
the Rings III.
And the feeling was: This is our time.
We are abroad and aloose, and will not
be put back. Look upon our works, ye mighty, and despair.
Then he made as much of a beeline as
possible for the
facilities, because he was full of coffee.
Apart from drawing at the
SQP booth and finding cell phones on the sidewalks of San Diego (final
tally:2), Rich enjoyed breakfast sandwiches at the Cheese Shop (go
with the biscuit instead of the English muffin), good-natured banter
with the publisher fellows, and sleeping.
Bed &
Bondage made its debut at Comic-Con, and did quite well,
considering its conspicuous lack of ball gags.
If you were there, but had better things
to do (was that
Kevin Smith?!) you might yet procure a hot-off-the-presses copy at
Dragon*Con. Look for Rich in Artist Alley.
6/15/06
If there's one commandment amongst comic
art types. it's probably Thou Shalt Not Go to San Diego Without New
Material. A few months ago, when we were about halfway through the
44-odd (and we mean odd) new paintings for Sweet Cheeks, we were able
to calculate with a fair degree of accuracy that the rest weren't going
to be done in time for the big show unless we took on a couple of
sizable crystal meth habits.
So, after a brief summit with They Who
Write the Checks, we temporarily set Cheeks aside, and plunged headlong
into plan B. Or rather, plan B&B.
If you enjoyed spending a night or two
at our Haunted House of Lingerie, you should make plans to check into
an equally twisted establishment, Rich Larson's Bed & Bondage.
B&B marks our return to the
ever-popular sketchbook format pioneered by SQP more than a decade ago.
Therein you'll find drawings by Rich, paintings by Steve, and a
whimsical (if you're Elizabeth Bathory) story featuring the popular
ladies from our Spanking Tails print. What more could you ask? How
about brand new front and back cover paintings, in blazing
Constricto-Color!
Oh yes--and copious, fully gratuitous
semi-nudity. Float on over to the SQP booth at Comic-Con International
(with 100,000+ attendees, your feet won't be touching the floor often)
next month, and grab yourself an autographed copy!
Now that Bed & Bondage is out the
door, it's full speed ahead on Sweet Cheeks.
The plan is to have this project
available for your posterior-centric pleasure in 2007.
We're more than halfway through, and
we'll be pausing only long enough to tackle a private commission every
now and then--because they let us stretch our spindly legs,
subject-matter-wise.
Spider-Man and Morbius ©
Marvel Comics
Since we both grew up on superhero
comics and monster and sf movies, we're tickled pink to revisit those
themes any chance we get.
X-Men and Magneto © Marvel
Comics
Our commissioned works in the last few
months have run the gamut from pencil drawings to watercolors to
grayscale and color marker and airbrush paintings. (If you think you
might be interested in commissioning your own original, here are some details.)
Like American Idol, but for
diametrically opposite reasons, listening to Atlanta's the Cogburns
makes us want to drink and bust stuff up. If Justin and Kanye and Gwen
and Fergie make you want to reach for the claw hammer, we heartily
recommend this new cd, for which we were thrilled to supply the cover
art.
Some of our favorite images from the
F&L pantheon are back as covers for Nick Pollotta's unstoppable
Bureau 13 franchise.
A laurel, and hearty handshake to the
designers at Wildside for the tasteful type treatment.
(Our cover for Nick's That Darn Squid God
remains everybody's favorite rendition of a giant cephalopod trashing
Victorian London.)
The B13 series steamrollers ever onward,
with at least two more F&L paintings tagged for projects in the
works.
(Previous news can be found here.)
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