WOULD YOU CARE TO JOIN ME ON THE BALCONY?

Mutt Blue and Poopsie the Penguin enjoy a real Banarsi meal after their jail break... but a revelation on the balcony seems to beckon through the shadows.

THE CLIFF Book 4: "Heart of Brightness", pgs. 70-71 (inked outlines only)

THE CLIFF Book 4: "Heart of Brightness", pgs. 70-71 (fully inked)

THE APPEARANCE OF LAXMI

Latest pages hot off the drawing board from THE CLIFF, Book 4: "Heart of Brightness"... After a daring and unusual escape from imprisonment, Mutt Blue and Poopsie the Penguin are clandestinely led through the alleys of Varanasi to meet the mysterious Laxmi and her daughter.



Pages 68-69, pencilled

Pages 68-69, inked outlines only

Pages 68-69, fully inked.

HOW DOES IT FEEL?

How does it feel?
To be on your own...
With no direction home...
A complete unknown...
Just like a part-time underground cartoonist / high school principal...

- BOB DYLAN (w/ some additions)

Work progresses on THE CLIFF Book 4: Heart of Brightness, pgs. 64-65

 

 

 



 

 



HIDE THE KITE.

The Cliff, Book 4 - "Heart of Brightness" continues with our heroes clawing their way back from the edge of despair, in a jail cell in Varanasi...

 

Pages 62& 63, rough sketches

 

 

 

Pages 62& 63, pencils

 

 

 

Pages 62& 63, inked outlines

 

 

 

Pages 62& 63, fully inked.

 

 





CAPTIVITY and LIBERATION

In the Varanasi jail, Mutt Blue and Poopsie the Penguin search for a ray of hope...

THE CLIFF Book 4: Heart of Brightness, pg.60-61 - rough sketch

 

 



 

 

THE CLIFF Book 4: Heart of Brightness, pg.60-61 - inked outlines only

 

 

 

 

THE CLIFF Book 4: Heart of Brightness, pg.60-61 - fully inked.

 

 

A CHAT WITH THE SERGEANT

As the tide turns, Mutt Blue and Poopsie the Penguin find themselves at the mercy of the penguin's old adversary, Sgt. Rajesh of the Benares Police...

THE CLIFF - Book 4, "Heart of Brightness" - pgs.54-55, inked outlines only

 



THE CLIFF - Book 4, "Heart of Brightness" - pgs.54-55, fully inked

 

 

 

THE CLIFF - Book 4, "Heart of Brightness" - pgs.56-57, rough sketch outline

 

 

THE CLIFF - Book 4, "Heart of Brightness" - pgs.56-57, fully inked.

 

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014, EVERYBODY!!!

 

ONE FALSE MOVE AND YOU WILL HAVE MORE AIRHOLES THAN A PANCAKE

"There is a fire, they put a pan on it, and then the dough is poured on it.  Finally, the pancake comes into being and is removed.  When the next one is put into the pan, when it is formed, it will generally appear like the previous one, but the number of dents and holes in the two will not be exactly the same.  You may have dozens of these pancakes, but each one is bound to be different.  That is the nature of creation itself, to have variety." 

- NISARGADATTA MAHARAJ, "The Experience of Nothingness" (Ed. Robert Powell), pg.6


From THE CLIFF: Book 4, "Heart of Brightness," pages 52 and 53...

 

Pgs. 52&53 with inked outlines only.

 

Pgs. 52&53 fully inked.