This is THE STARVING ARTISTS circa 1985! That is DENNIS RIORDAN (Bass) on the left. I'm in the middle and JIM JILEK (Drums) on the right. I just started a band listing at www.localbandnetwork.com/bands/thestarvingartists We have practice this weekend and my brother CHRIS is back on board with his drums.
Visit my friend PATRICK's BLOG for some cool art of our favorite HANNA-BARBERA characters and UNDERDOG among others! www.powsley.blogspot.com Also visit www.patrickowsley.com for a gallery of his art!
I just scanned these original JACK DAVIS model sheets into my computer for a tribute that is being paid to JACK out on the West Coast in a couple of weeks! JACK is the BEST! A friend of mine, David Scheve just paid him a visit and got some of his commercial cels for CASK MOUNTAIN WINE signed for me! I have all of JACK's TV Commercials on video tape and can tape them for my standard $20 per tape time/trouble.
Just listed MONSTERSCENE #9 on EBAY and it brings back some good memories. It came out a year before my book THE ENCHANTED WORLD OF RANKIN/BASS: A PORTFOLIO in 1996. I wrote the article 'THE MAD MAD MAD MONSTERS OF RANKIN/BASS' for this issue. I remember my copies of the magazine arrived just before ARTHUR RANKIN, JR. came to my home to go over the book outline. I gave him a copy of the magazine to read on his flight home. The cover painting by BASIL GOGOS completely blew me away! I was always a fan of his BUT his art was getting better with age and his MONSTERSCENE work was some of his very BEST! I asked BASIL to do some art for my first book and he did send along a FRANKENSTEIN with a SANTA hat BUT it arrived after my book was already printing..here is the art seen for the first time!
