A QUICKIE, BUT I STILL LOVE YOU

You can’t complain when the work comes, as you will never know when the dry season will come.

I’ve been working on THE A TEAM movie since early January. Work was slow and I got a cryptic call from my friend John Singleton asking “are you working on anything now?”

“No”, I replied.

“Don’t take anything” John said.

Months later, I am still working on the Fox lot. I did the first six weeks alone, and then we got another artist, Eric Ramsey. Yea, that Eric, the one that helped “steal” BOOMERANG… (previous blog) HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA… Seriously, Eric has been a great help and an amazing fellow to work with. We actually did a photo shoot about six years ago, for the now defunct magazine, SAVOY. Others in that shoot were Eric’s equally talented brother, Peter, and Darryl Henley….yea…the co-stealer of BOOMERANG.

Brief side bar, Darryl has been a great friend (despite our different politics) and that will be another blog.

Eric is totally fun to work with. His style is different than mine, as like any artists, we are different. We do though both love other artists, the prime being the late great cartoonist, Alex Toth. Also, Eric and I will both bring in art books to show eachother.

Yes, we also have that inner geek reference point as well. We could do all of 48 HOURS in the voices of Murphy and Nolte as well as the villains and the hot headed police lieutenant.

The third artist is my friend, Benton Jew. Benton is as low key as Eric and I are boisterous. He has a very illustrative style in comparison to Eric’s simple but elegant style. Where Eric draws like an animator, Benton draws like Alex Raymond.

We bust our butts, but we have fun.

As I am trying to work during this weekend on a side gig, I will have to bring this blog to an abrupt close.

The kind of close you would have preferred for RETURN OF THE KING. What was that? Five endings? It should have been Aragon is crowned, the Hobbitts try to bow, but Viggo says “You dudes bow to noone”. The end. Nope, not quite… Did we need to see Sam get his groove on with the Hobbitt barmaid? Then, see his kids??

Oh, sorry. I have to get back to the side gig. Write you next week.