Posted By Mark on June 25, 2009
The WAR story I’m working on has led me to draw some things that I have never drawn (at least not in years). For one, Zombies. The excerpt from a montage page below, features a Nazi Zombie, whom I’m told looks like the Slaytanic Wehrmacht, and upon closer inspection does (I guess all those years of Slayer listening paid off). But the artistic direction of this book is heading in an interesting way. The rendering style and inking I’m doing is pretty divergent from my past couple projects and becoming more similar to my freelance magazine illustration. Mulligan’s Run, has a very clean, opened line style; John Oxbow is entirely done in nib and has minimal changes in line weight, but WAR seems to be a bridging of those styles. It’s always exciting when a project starts to take on an identity of it’s own. More to come as I finish up this beast. Almost halfway done.
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Posted By Mark on May 31, 2009
As many have no doubt heard, a bunch of us have been making pieces to be auctioned off to help out pals over at The Big Illustration Party Time recoup their audio set up. For more info check here. Here is an interesting collaboration that Ted Seko and I did together. Ted came up with some super dynamic thumbnail pieces for me to ink. At first blush, I thought “what can I do to these?”. As they stand they are striking pieces and the lines are so minimal, what could I really bring to the table?
Ted was able to capture the character in so few strokes, would I be sacrificing the dynamic nature by over rendering? You decide. I’m pretty happy how it turned out once I just trusted myself and followed Ted’s structure.
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Posted By Mark on May 31, 2009
A few weeks ago I posted a page from the new Thrills From Space story I’m working on and after further refinement of the story and plots, I’ve opted to change the format from square to a more traditional size (actually the same size as John Oxbow). This change in format at first had me moving my title around a little bit, but during these revisions I started actually moving panels around a bit (for added effect of course) and discovered that by doing so, it changed the pace of the story to more the flow that I had in mind from the beginning. Let me back up a bit– WAR, the page posted a few weeks ago was meant to just be an inking exercise, but the longer I lived with the page, it actually worked itself into one of my other existing stories. Below are the first 3 pages of WAR, also included is the original version of page 1, which has become pages 1 & 2.
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Posted By Mark on May 12, 2009
Is a Sci-fi anthology series by Mark Rudolph featuring short-form stories, told in a 60s silver age-style with modern storytelling sensibilities. Each are presented in short run, varied size format with silk screened covers on recycled paper. A mingling of current DIY aesthetics and pulp magazines.
The next story in the series is WAR, a WWII story that explores the act of war through different lenses. Here’s a preview page. Also in Art & Story Extreme!! Continuity, we discuss some of the lettering choices and what the implications of those choices are.
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Here’s my take on Suffocation, a New York brutal death metal band. The idea behind the illustration was that they have been around for 20 years and still going strong, so I just took it to the ridiculous logical level.
Here’s the aging death metal band, Suffocation.
Any longtime listeners of 
