Crom the Barbarian UPDATE
Public Domain Comic Book Pinup Drawing Process
April 5, 2024
It's been a busy several weeks with necessary electrical work getting done on the house, the stomach bug being passed around amongst the kids, and now spring break. But despite all that I managed to get my Crom the Barbarian pinup completed and turned in on time for Kurt Brugel's upcoming collection of classic sword and sorcery comics!
He recently had me on his Crom Updates Podcast over on his Youtube channel. The episode was recorded while the drawing was still in progress and we talked about artist Cy Twombly and the different ways we experience and come back to art, briefly discussing his Untitled 1970 painting as well as his paintings based on The Iliad. That jumping off point led us to talking about th relationship between words and pictures, synchronicity and chance when it comes to experiencing and making art, and the sword and sorcery genre as it relates to the story of David in the Old Testament. Check out the interview below!
This was my second appearance on Kurt's Crom Updates. You can check out my first interview with him here which was instrumental in deciding how I wanted to approach this pinup. I also appeared on his Turbo Pit-Fighter channel on the Indie Comics Creators podcast talking about my comic Gut & Ghost. You can check that out here!