Dave Howlett
@davehowlett
Comics mostly.
More 5x7 sketches. I plan to have a bunch of these for sale on my table at @dartmouthcomix.bsky.social on August 9.
I traded a commission of Crystar the Crystal Warrior for a copy of Marvel’s adaptation of XANADU. Doesn’t get much more on brand for me than that. Thanks @big5army.bsky.social!
Some 5x7 sketches as I try to get back in shape to do commissions at @dartmouthcomix next month.
I went on a Micronauts kick a few years back and started wondering what a mid-eighties live-action movie adaptation might have looked like. This is my ideal version right here, although looking back on it I now realize I left out a crucial detail: creature effects by Rob Bottin.
Just assembled my new comic displays from Sinister Rabbit Studio, and I couldn’t be happier with them. Lightweight, easy to assemble, and very reasonably priced. I’ll be debuting them next month at @dartmouthcomix.bsky.social, hopefully with a new comic for the show as well.
This year’s Dartmouth Comic Arts Festival is right around the corner, and it’s not a party until @wordburglar.bsky.social gets things started! Art by me, colours & layout by Brian Sauer.
The Sam Neill movie I’d like to revisit most this evening—the movie I first saw him in—is only streaming in Canada in French. Sacre bleu!
We finished the bizarre and fascinating docuseries BRING ME THE BEAUTIES last night, a wild story about a weirdo socialite/alien from Arcturus and his cult of supermodel followers in 1980s NYC. It also ties in to my beloved EXORCIST III!
I met Chris Claremont at a store appearance in 1991 and he showed off several unlettered photostat pages from this story, which ultimately went published. As you can imagine, it looked pretty cool.
Swamp Thing: World’s Worst Waiter, written by @zyblonius.bsky.social @phantomrobot.bsky.social @coreyhenderson.bsky.social and myself, art by me. Swamp Thing created by Len Wein & Berni Wrightson.
Depending on which era you’re reading, the Batman of Zur-En-Arrh is either an alien who was inspired by Batman to become a crimefighter on his own world, or he was a hobo ninja backup identity created by Batman in case his mind was ever compromised. Whatever the case, his fashion game is on point.
You know how sometimes you just get to wondering what it would be like if the Savage Dragon universe had its own equivalent to MF DOOM but with Overlord, and then you just have to draw that?
Crystar commission for @big5army.bsky.social! Any excuse to dig the Crystar back issues out of the archive…
THE WIRE’s Cheese Wagstaff, played by Method Man. Just one of the all-time great character names.