Thursday 4 October 2012

Missions impossible (well, a bit tough)

The lovely people at SFX magazine who give me a regular spot in their fine organ every month, recently asked me to do a couple of extra pieces for two specials they were planning (out now).
The first was for a horror special and I was asked to replicate those brilliant fold-ins in the back of Mad Magazine created by Al Jaffee. I've always been a huge fan of Mad since I started trying to draw caricatures like Mort Drucker in my teens so I immediately said "YES!".
Blimey O'Riley it was difficult. My respect for Al Jaffee went through the roof.
What SFX wanted visualising was the film Piranha 3D, a wonderfully cheesy exploitation movie featuring lashings of gore and nudity. The recent sequel, Piranha 3DD was apparently shite.
It was to be set in a waterpark with loads of nubile beauties being chomped on by piranhas and then when you folded the page in it was a large image of a fabulously endowed babe. See the results below.
The second near impossible job was a DPS for the current issue of SFX which features a celebration of 50 years of James Bond. What they wanted this time was a map of the world with every (official) Bond film portrayed in location. There are 22 Bond films not counting the first Casino Royale, the Connery break-away film- Never Say Never Again and the new one Skyfall. A great fun job with a very tight deadline. See below how it turned out.
The next impossible task SFX have lined up for me is a Hollywood version of the unbelievably clever upside-down drawings of Gustave Verbeek. Sounds like a challenge!

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