Lost At Sea fan art
In addition to drawing some Scott Pilgrim fan art and a Sex Bob-omb cameo in Basic Wage Kids, I also did this fan art for Bryan Lee O’Malley’s first book, Lost At Sea, back in 2001.
Useless Trivia:
I actually drew this fan art before the book was published, inspired solely by the fantastic preview comics posted online at the Oni Press website. Consequently, I didn’t know precisely what the book would be about. I assumed the title was a metaphor, but for my fan art I decided to interpret it literally.
As with my Scott Pilgrim fan art, this is a homage to/rip-off of another source, in this case the Carl Barks cover to Walt Disney’s Comics & Stories #108. Here’s the original cover:
While I firmly believe that Carl Barks is one of the all time greatest cartoonists ever, the Disney characters aren’t to everybody’s tastes, and I went out on a limb by assuming that O’Malley would recognize the reference. To my delight, he did, and made a comment to the effect that he wished he had enough money to buy the Carl Barks Library hardcover set. (I accidentally let the email account that I used at that time fall into disuse in the following years, so his exact words are tragically lost to the ages.)
When I drew this piece, word on the street was that Lost At Sea was going to be a four-issue mini-series at standard comic book size (it eventually appeared as a single digest-sized graphic novel). I recall hopefully suggesting to O’Malley that my pinup could appear as the back cover of one of the four issues, but he nixed that idea, from recollection due to worries about Disney and copyright.
The original art was drawn at A3 size. It would make a great poster for your wall.
I actually still really like this picture, despite how old it is, perhaps because the fact that they aren’t my characters and it isn’t my design means that I have a fair bit of distance from it.
Useless Trivia:
I actually drew this fan art before the book was published, inspired solely by the fantastic preview comics posted online at the Oni Press website. Consequently, I didn’t know precisely what the book would be about. I assumed the title was a metaphor, but for my fan art I decided to interpret it literally.
As with my Scott Pilgrim fan art, this is a homage to/rip-off of another source, in this case the Carl Barks cover to Walt Disney’s Comics & Stories #108. Here’s the original cover:
While I firmly believe that Carl Barks is one of the all time greatest cartoonists ever, the Disney characters aren’t to everybody’s tastes, and I went out on a limb by assuming that O’Malley would recognize the reference. To my delight, he did, and made a comment to the effect that he wished he had enough money to buy the Carl Barks Library hardcover set. (I accidentally let the email account that I used at that time fall into disuse in the following years, so his exact words are tragically lost to the ages.)
When I drew this piece, word on the street was that Lost At Sea was going to be a four-issue mini-series at standard comic book size (it eventually appeared as a single digest-sized graphic novel). I recall hopefully suggesting to O’Malley that my pinup could appear as the back cover of one of the four issues, but he nixed that idea, from recollection due to worries about Disney and copyright.
The original art was drawn at A3 size. It would make a great poster for your wall.
I actually still really like this picture, despite how old it is, perhaps because the fact that they aren’t my characters and it isn’t my design means that I have a fair bit of distance from it.