How Much Do You Need?: A Dive Bar in a Western Town!

Here are the rough layouts to page 5 of War of the Independents #4. After grabbing a bite on the village green, our heroes' search for the helmet of Cerebus inevitably and inexorably leads to a dank biker bar, where they encounter Grampa Grizzly (whose resemblance to Chris Ecker is completely coincidental) and what look to be denizens from "In Pictopia" (my stock mutant-robotic extras, in other words). Photographed here are marker refinements on canary yellow tracing paper over blue and graphite pencil roughs.

Mr. Spook, Protoplasman, The Toxic Avenger, Felix the Cat, Usagi Yojimbo, Zippy the Pinhead, and Milk and Cheese do some munching and littering.

Cerebus spots a likely dive bar as Pokey and Felix brave forth.

Too Much Coffee Man and Flaming Carrot catch up to Bone, The Tick and company, and are greeted by Blockheads J & G with a scowling Grampa Grizzly in the center.

Rough layouts of pages 4 and 5. I'm actually working more than twice up from publication size to accommodate the huge cast of characters -- and for the convenience of my aging eyes and hand!

See previous posts on this blog for more War of the Independents #4 art in progress!
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