The Solipsist Journal
The magazine for the true megalomaniac, the solipsist, who believes that nothing exists without his or her conscousness and/or consent, that the self is the only reality and nothing else is verifiable. Naturally, that is *my* image on the cover! Of course, the question might arise, who writes for it...?
--Magazine cover, created in Photoshop

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The Case of the Black Kettle
Jack Pott has a strange, round head and an odd flange around the neck. Oh� he is a pot! One might even say a pothead, but we don't talk about that kind of thing in general company. Any resemblance you might find in Mr. Pott to actor Jerry O'Connell is purely acccidental. The lady in the picture doesn't resemble anyone I know, either.
--Book cover, created in Photoshop

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Apalling Stories
A friend's chance remark about the "amazing and apalling stories" featured on such shows as Jerry Springer, Maury Povich, et al, led to this evocation of the classic neo-pulp magazine covers of the 50's and later.
--Magazine cover, created in Photoshop

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The Mighty Foo
In the early 80's I did an occasional illustration for the original Electronic Games magazine. Besides the Dr. Cursor cartoons, I did a brief series starring Foo -- full name, Foo Man Chew, the terrifying cat (that isn't how they spelled his name, but that's the kind of cat he was) that belonged to Arnie and Joyce Katz, founders and editors of that magazine.
--Magazine illustrations using Flair pen, Magic Markers & halftone screen overlay.

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The Martian Chronicles
The paperback publisher of Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles once held a competition for the cover of an upcoming edition. I did this painting after reading the stories, but never submitted it, and I don't know now who won. The cover image, with the title, is roughly how I imagine it might have appeared back then; the typeface might be fancied up some in a more recent edition.
--Book Cover painting, proposed jacket; oils, Photoshop

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Nonplussing Stories
This was intended as a satire on the classic pulp science fiction covers where stalwart spacemen valiantly rescued lissome, helpless, and preferably scantily clad heroines from the clutches of slavering Bug-Eyed Monsters. Here I kind of reversed the rescuer & rescuee.
--Magazine cover; markers, Photoshop

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Desolate
Somewhere a lonely robot on a devastated world seeks consolation from a higher power.
--Image created in Photoshop

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Three Ages of Mankind
The faces are deliberately gender-unspecific; the intention was to make a general statement about life. My original somewhat ironic title was, as can be seen, "Vision" -- the eyes are closed not in deliberate refusal to see but they are yet asleep, with consciousness internal rather than external. Human awareness has yet to be achieved.
--Originally pencil drawing, colorized in Photoshop

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Time Passes
This was the cover page for a tribute to the 75th anniversary of my old school; a portfolio of illustrations most of which are included in this collection.
--Compiled in Photoshop.

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Buxton Verses
This selection of verses and a drawing was laid out for a page in the school tribute(see adjacent image). The illustration is called Proposition, and may be self-explanatory.
--Illustration in Flair pen, text & layout with Photoshop

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