Artist Interview

An interview I did for the Davis Gallery the night of the show...

221B Baker Street page

A scene based on a script written by Bert Coules who has scribed several Sherlock Holmes radio drama's starring Clive Merrison and Andrew Sachs as Holmes and Watson.

Pencils, inks and lettering by me with colors lovingly by Rori Shapiro.

Thought's on last night's show MEANWHILE...

I probably told Evan three or four times last night what a great job he and the people involved did putting this show together.

I would love to see something like this become a yearly event. It was just so much fun to be a part of such a really great and diverse group of comic book artists from the Worcester area with such a wide variety of styles. And probably some of the nicest artists you'll ever meet to boot!!

I liked how the set up was so loose and easy feeling. And I also loved the fact that they had the old Max Fleischer Superman cartoons playing on a television as you entered. I still think those were some of the best superhero cartoons ever produced at least from an animation standpoint.

If you missed out on the opening, I believe the show will be running for a month at the Davis Art Gallery located in the Old Printers Building on Portland Street in Worcester. It's right down the road from the Worcester Public Library.

So, check it out!!

Photo's from Meanwhile...

Two great article on MEANWHILE...

Both the Worcester Telegram and Gazette and Worcester Magazine have written really great articles on tonight's show MEANWHILE... featuring interviews with myself and the other comic artists involved in the show. Click on the links below to read the articles online:

MEANWHILE . . . A Group Show of Worcester Comic Creators

Featuring the work of:
Evan Scola, Karl Cole, Robb Sandagata, Doug Chapel, Pete Beaudoin, Jamie Buckmaster, Andy Fish, Veronica Hebard, Alison Cowell, Derek Ring, Bret Herholz, Brian Nelson & Mike McMenemy

Wine & Hors d'oeuvres will be served. Street parking or public library lot is available.

For more information, contact kcole@davisart.com, or call 800.533.2847.

Charles Spencer Chaplin

Continuing with a theme that I hadn't done with my E-Bay art till recently.

Illustrated with Deleter #4 Black Drawing Ink with Crow Quill Pen on Canson Smooth 9x12 Bristol Board.

Some of the faces created by Charles Spencer Chaplin including The Little Tramp which he is best known for, Adenoid Hynkel from The Great Dictator, Henri Verdoux from Monsieur Verdoux and Calvero from Limelight.

I had the Tramp and Hynkel giving each other a dirty look. This was inspired by a line from the biop Chaplin in which Douglas Fairbanks (played by Kevin Kline) tells Chaplin (played by Robert Downey Jr.) that Hitler stole his look from the Tramp. I thought it was a great idea and I wanted to visualize the Tramps disapproval of this defamation of character ;-)