For the past few years, I’ve been drawing our family’s Christmas cards. It’s been a fun way to contribute to the holiday. Last year we did a standard Santa Claus scene featuring a pregnant Ellen. This year Joan makes her debut as the Sugar Plum Fair in our production of The Nutcracker.
Over the summer, I discovered sketch covers… regular issues of comic books that are released with blank covers. The thought is (I’m guessing) that you’ll take the comic and get your favorite professional artist to doodle on the cover. Having said that, there’s nothing stopping us nonprofessionals from having a go.
When I saw that they had published a sketch cover edition of Bob’s Burgers #1, I jumped right on it. The cartoon is a favorite of mine and I have just the right number of family members to make this homage work… although Elliot had to be the stand-in for Tina Belcher. If you know Elliot, you’ll know he’d be just fine with this.
Normally I color these covers in, but the paper this cover is made out of doesn’t take marker very well.
If you’re interested, I have a gallery of some of the other sketch covers I’ve done over on my Tumblr. I’ve sold all of those but I should have a couple new ones up for sale pretty soon.
Longtime readers of my comic may remember that every Halloween I draw a seasonally themed cartoon of my family for posting on social media.
New readers… that sentence above is a true statement.
You can check out previous years’ Halloween (and Christmas!) doodles here.
Born yesterday, weighing in at 6 pounds, 13 ounces. Mom and baby are doing fine!
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