What's for Lunch? A Gravy Train with Biscuit Wheels!

Here are the roughs for page 4 of War of the Independents #4 (forthcoming from Red Anvil Comics), with some of the most exciting food truck art you've ever seen! (I can see fans starting sketchbooks just to collect their favorite artists' renditions of food truck beauty shots!) See previous posts on this blog for other examples of the art in progress.

Art Clokey's Gumby and Pokey circle behind a food truck run by the Blockheads (J & G), while Bob Burden's Flaming Carrot, Otto Messmer's Felix the Cat, Jeff Smith's Bone, Stan Sakai's Usagi Yojimbo, Larry Marder's Mr. Spook (from Tales of the Beanworld), Lloyd Kaufman and Joe Ritter's The Toxic Avenger, Bill Griffith's Zippy the Pinhead, Ben Edlund's The Tick, Evan Dorkin's Milk and Cheese, and Gary Carlson and Mort Todd's Protoplasman break for lunch four pages into this non-stop action issue! What they consume could alter the destiny of the WOTI universe for at least several pages to come! (The fire plug appears by special arrangement with the estate of Ernie Bushmiller.)

Flaming Carrot has a moment with Shannon Wheeler's Too Much Coffee Man. (Kaffé Hut® is a registered trademark of Kiosk Proliferation International, all rights reserved.)

"I am already getting inquiries from collectors of food truck art," says issue illustrator Don Simpson. "Resquests for depictions of various characters stopping at food trucks have been pouring in non-stop." The most interesting request has been for a re-creation of the famous Action Comics #1cover with an SLE Equipment concession trailer replacing the 1937 Desoto touring sedan that Superman hoists above his head.

Stay tuned for more art after the artist returns from lunch!