Taffy King, Deadly Mutant Teenage Lizard-Girl Ninja From Outer Space

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I told you about Mai Ling the other day.  This is her classmate, her BFF, and her fellow student ninja from the planet Gaijin in the 53rd Century.  Unlike Mai, Taffy is royalty.  She is a former princess of the planet Mingo, her family being supplanted and exiled by the Nefarious Emperor Mong.  Like all Mingoans, she is a member of the Fusion Race.  They are people scientifically engineered to be half Earth human and half Galtorrian reptilian humanoid.    She has lovely green eyes, vertically slitted, with the look of a cobra about them.  She is just as deadly as her eyes make her seem.  Her Psion power is basically telekinesis, the same as Mai Ling’s power, but she uses it in a very different fashion.  Taffy likes to move and manipulate tiny objects in mass.  She shapes things out of sand, water droplets, smoke, living wasps, or bees.  She can trap you withing a sarcophagus made of sand with no breathing holes.  She can dress you in a suit of stinging wasps.  On top of that, she has ninja skills that allow her to slice and dice you with blades or even kill you with her bare hands.  She’s not actually vain, but you should never tell her that her hair is mussed or that her clothing isn’t perfectly in style.  She has killed bozos like us for less.

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400!

400!

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June 25, 2014 · 11:49 pm

Celebrity Endorsements

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It is difficult to get a book noticed by the book-buying (and hopefully book-reading) public.  If you have a good book, especially if you have gone the independent publishing route, promotion and advertisement cost far more than you are likely to make on the book.  No one notices.  No one reads.  The ones who do read don’t review it.  So you have to be creative.  Or maybe creatively evil.  If you are going to get somebody with some pull to recommend your book, you may have to trick them.  I got Batgirl here to endorse my book by promising to give her information about the location of the Joker’s lair.  I tricked her into waiting in front of my book while I secretly snapped this picture with my concealed bow-tie camera.  You can’t actually tell from the picture, but she conked me on the head with that titanium batarang once the flash went off in her face.  But I got the endorsement for free.  Of course, now I’m on a most-wanted list from the Justice League for marketing fraud.

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June 25, 2014 · 4:24 pm

The Wizard’s Magical Tomes

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For the last 25 years of my life, I have been laboring to create hand-made books filled with my magical research and spells.  The two in the back are scrapbooks filled with printed images, drawings, poems, and short autobiographical compositions.  I collect in them things I mean to weave into fiction, things I mean to use as models for artwork.  The two in the foreground are completely cartoon stories in rough draft form.  These are not books I ever mean to have published.  They are filled with things I intend to use in my work at some future time.  Many of these images and poems I have used already somewhere.  But there are many, many more.  That makes these tomes something of a treasure… at least to me.

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June 24, 2014 · 4:07 pm

Mai Ling, Deadly Mutant Little Girl Ninja From Outer Space

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One must always be careful of the most deadly creatures to be found in the Orion Spur of the Milky Way Galaxy.  That’s why it is good to note that one of the most deadly creatures, which is also one of the most necessary to avoid, is the teenage girl just entering the mixed blessings of puberty.  Mai Ling, pictured in this Aeroquest Science Fiction Public Service Warning Poster, is a particularly lethal specimen of just such a creature.  At about thirteen years of age, she is possessed of not only deadly ninja skills, trained to fatal perfection, but also telekinetic Psion mutant skills.  She can use her telekinesis to propel weapons in ways that weapons were never meant to be propelled at speeds of up to GOLLY GEE WOO-WOO WOW THAT WAS FAST!!!  If she shoots at you with the slug-thrower pistol she often carries, you are not only merely dead, but literally most sincerely dead because even if she misses you, she can redirect the bullet into whichever vital organ she wishes, and being the age she is, that probably means something in the highly sensitive and highly embarrassing personal middle area.  She can also bang you dead pretty effectively with any stone she decides to pick up and fling.  Her left arm is sheathed in accelerating electro-magnetic Gauss-effect armor that will turn a stone into faster-than-the-speed-of-sound projectile capable of blasting its way through the walls of the boys’ shower room.   You dare not cross her.  Don’t challenge her authority.  And, for goodness sake, don’t make comments on handsome young members of boy bands, because you never ever can anticipate which one she will be in love with this week… er… today… er… this minute.

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Creepy Times, the Third Chapter

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The picture is called “My Galatea” after the myth of Pygmalion.  I drew it at a time when I was working on the Snow Babies character of Valerie Clarke.  She was my creation, made up of my daughter the Princess, a girl I had a crush on in 6th grade, and a very strange part of my own psyche that is essentially female.  Sometimes things come together in such a fashion that the creation becomes more real than what I know as reality.  Have you ever created something that was so perfect that you fell in love with it?  It is a very strange feeling.  It doesn’t create happiness.  It makes you feel regret that what should be real is only fantasy.  It makes you feel longing for something that you know you simply cannot have.  It makes you feel creepy, like you’ve done something wrong.  You have stolen bits of other people’s lives and put them together, made them live in a new form, the whole Frankenstein’s monster sort of thing.  The evil abides in those things that you could never foresee as problems.  The torches are lit, the pitchforks come out, and chaos ensues.

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Falconet’s sculpture of Pygmalion (1763) 

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Future Art

DSCN5026 DSCN5025These are a couple of unfinished Acrylic paintings awaiting the opportunity to complete them. One is a pair of Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders. No mystery about that. I live in the Dallas area, and I’m a male creature with eyes. The other is about a Native American story-teller and the tale he is telling his grandson. It will be mostly about pattern and design when I am finished. I am not fond of the opaque nature of Acrylic paint, so I need to use it differently than I do oil.

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June 21, 2014 · 4:29 pm

Biblical Proportions

This picture was a 1980’s attempt to copy the skin tones in the works of Frank Frazetta and Boris Vallejo.   I have always admired their ability  to create luminous tanned skin and vibrant character colors.  I also intended to turn this into an oil painting of young David the shepherd playing and singing for King Saul.  My skills were not up to the task at the time, but I find this goofy composition interesting never the less. DSCN4705

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June 20, 2014 · 4:24 pm

Wow! More than 800!

Buster 800

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June 19, 2014 · 7:36 pm

KidZart

Here’s a piece of pottery created by the Princess.  Ceramic cuteness fired and glazed.DSCN5022

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June 19, 2014 · 5:40 pm