American Flagg -LOOSE WOMEN AND BEST MEN PT. 1

 In the late 80's I had pretty much stopped doing much work for comics and had settled into storyboarding for animation. Then along comes Howard Chaykin who had recently moved to LA and invited me to work on a run of American Flagg with him. Needless to say, I jumped at the chance and we soon opened our own studio in nearby Montrose where we were joined by several other artist both breaking in and established over the next few year.

Working with Howard on Flagg was an education and revelation, and a lot of fun. With Howard as art director and writer (along with John Francis Moore) our art crew of myself, Richard Ory, letterer Kenny Bruzenak and a couple of others produced twelve issues over the next year. Working on the duo-tone art boards forced me to stop seeing my work basically as two-dimensional line work and more as tonal three-d. All in all if forced me to improve my drawing. And working with Howard's simple plots taught me a lot as a visual storyteller. Here are copies of one of the issues xeroxed from the originals.














PT. 2 on Friday of this week. Don't miss it!!


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