Fight-Man One Shot pgs 1 and 2 pencils (Marvel,1993) (Patreon)

This is how I was drawing -- or attempting to draw -- in the early 90's. You can see the anxiety I had on the job in my tight pencils, heavily-referenced but still messy anatomy, honing all the lines and blacking in dark areas to prove I was trying hard (making life harder for the inker), endless detail, detail, detail. The inspiration from the Marvel bullpen of the 70's and MAD Magazine is on display, but not the technical chops. 

There are still a lot of things I like about these, though, I mean, they're fun to look at and the fact that Marvel let me do this stuff always makes me smile. And it's a look at where my work would have been going if I took on more "regular" Marvel assignments back in the day.  I was offered writing work but not art, so, then again, my drawing would probably not have taken the more mainstream path, now that I think about it. In that "What If? Evan Dorkin Was a Regular 90's Marvel Creator" timeline, I would have been writing X-Men 2099 (I almost did, honestly, it was offered and I started working up notes for the series before I turned it down) and drawing Milk & Cheese for SLG. 

I think I have all the Fight-Man pencil xeroxes on file, so maybe we'll make that one of the PDF's we send out.