HOUSE ON HORROR HILL

This short piece was done for one of Sal Quartuccio's books. I'm always amazed looking back at it, that there is so much more life, storytelling and design than in anything I was doing for traditional comics at the time. And I got to ink it myself.

A couple of bonus pinups this week. A Lori Lovecraft, and one of the drawings I did as development for Voodoo Mansion.

This week's HBO Tales From the Crypt cover is "Dig That Cat, He's Real Gone," directed by Richard Donner.

LINDA LOVECRAFT: HIGH PRIESTESS OF SEXUAL FANTASY

This is the first of the Linda Lovecraft stories that I did for Star*Reach comics back in the mid 70's. There's a lot of Wally Wood and Mad Comics influence...with some Frazetta thrown in.  Enjoy!
(If you've missed any of our previous Vozcomix installments, you can always catch up by going to the archives located on the right side of the page.)

Our HBO Tales from the Crypt bonus cover this week is "Came the Dawn". What I remember about the shoot, was meeting Brooke Shields and when I shook hands with her, she had a grip like a linebacker. And I'm afraid my drawing didn't come anywhere close to the brilliant job that Wally Wood did on the original comicbook story.

See you next Thursday!  Best, Mike

THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 2016 RETROWOOD Gypsy Twins Pt. 4

Here's the final installment of the Retrowood story, Gypsy Twins. Below is a development illustration I did while writing the story. Of course,my favorite model, Sarah, is the corpse. The other lovely lady is the Lira, the wife of my good friend Anthony Diecedue, and fantastic artist in his own right.

If you missed the first part, or any of the previous Voxcomix posts you can always catch up by visiting the archives located to the right. Happy viewing.

This week's HBO Tales From the Crypt cover is from one of the feature films, Bordello of Blood. This was the uncensored version...I'm not sure I even have a copy of the version they used for network TV. Enjoy...and we'll see you next week.

RETROWOOD Gypsy Twins Pt. 3

Here is the third installment of Gypsy Twins with detective J. Parker Wrighte. If you missed the first part, or any of the previous Voxcomix posts you can always catch up by visiting the archives located to the right. Happy viewing.

The HBO Tales from the Crypt cover this week was a gift done for producer Bill Teitler who was always a great guy to work with.

RETROWOOD Gypsy Twins Pt. 2

Here is the second installment of Gypsy Twins with detective J. Parker Wrighte. If you missed the first part, or any of the previous Voxcomix posts you can always catch up by visiting the archives located to the right. Happy viewing.

Below is the cover done for the "Beauty Rest" episode of the HBO series Tales From the Crypt. Stephen Hopkins directed this one; I remember him greeting me on the set and excitedly telling me it was a great day to show up: Kathy Ireland and Mimi Rogers were doing a nude scene. Of course when I was set to take pictures, I discovered my camera had somehow broken. Ah well...

RETROWOOD Gypsy Twins Pt. 1

Being a big fan of mystery and detective movies of the 30's the Retrowood series was my attempt to do my own black and white movies in the genre. Here's one of the more whimsical tales, "Gypsy Twins"....inspired by two of my favorite figure models, Cassandra and Sarah, who once showed up at a class as Siamese twins for us to draw... and I couldn't tell them apart.
And a shout out to Steven Kloepfer who edited (rewrote) a lot of the dialogue in this one.

Our HBO Tales From the Crypt bonus this week is As Ye Sow, with Hector Elizando and John Shea.

See you next Thursday for Pt. 2 of Gypsy Twins.

Skywalker - Peyote St. Jean

This post is a few days late...I've been having fun traveling around Arizona.

Here's a tale from back in my Star*Reach days. And yes, I was using the name Skywalker before George Lucas, who was one of the readers of the Star*Reach books.  Of course, I pilfered the name from Buffy St. Marie's song, Starwalker.  And how can you go wrong with sex, drugs and magic.

The HBO Tales From the Crypt bonus cover is Abra-Cadaver, directed by Stephen Hopkins.  When I first met him on set and he told me he was big fan of my work, I thought he was just being polite, but when he went to on to ask about what I had been working on since Sisterhood of Steel I was really floored.