Creative Characters Holiday Card 2018

My yearly contribution to the CREATIVE CHARACTERS print/web company holiday card. I did the figures, they did the rest.

Reject Archie

From 2004: despite my overtly cartoony style, I decided to send some sample pages to ARCHIE comics. It probably didn't help that I decided to poke some mild fun at some of the cliches in the Archie books at the time.

Late Night WIth TOUGHPIGS

TOUGHPIGS, the major Muppet fansite I do art for, did an April Fool's day promotion in which the website was turned into a parody promotional piece about UP LATE WITH MISS PIGGY, the show-within-a-show featured on ABC's THE MUPPETS. Several members contributed articles, and I came up with this new artwork:

This is the original drawing for the logo. I did have to shrink things down a bit as well as get rid of the background due to space issues for the final version, but except for the font graphics that Joe Hennes added  (based on the show's UP LATE logo) This is pretty much how it appeared.

I also had to come up with several new icons for the sidebar categories. The images had to be heavily reduced for the site, but these files give you a better idea of how they looked in their original size. I had to keep the designs and colors a bit simpler than I usually do due to the reductions.

Did Somebody Say BAM?

Ran across this. The Brooklyn Academy of Music was doing a special exhibit of the Jim Henson Foundation's MUPPETS, MUSIC, and MAGIC, and a number of TOUGHPIGS members had planned to go down and meet. Regrettably, I was unable to attend myself, but I whipped up this art (in B&W) and mailed it directly to TP (I think Danny Horn was still in charge at the time) In case they wanted to do anything promotional . Some time after the show, I got back this hand-colored (by Martha Hayes Crannell- thanks, Martha!) copy of my art back autographed by the late great Jerry Juhl, with the caption: "To Smig- Where the heck were you?" Mr. Juhl, If I knew, I wouldn't have been where I was!