Mysterious Transmissions

Colin: Jim Lawson and I recently launched Paleo: The Webcomic. It’s a historically accurate series of dinosaur yarns taking place during the Late Cretaceous, with new pages going up Wednesdays and Fridays.

Jim released Paleo in print early last decade, and we’ve got enough pages to run for about three years. I’ve seen the whole thing, and it is brutal and epic. It gives you a front row seat to what life was like for a variety of different species, illustrated in Jim’s stunning and distinctive style. I advise blasting Phillip Glass while you read it!

Gazosaurus by Jim Lawson

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Jim says:
“Just playing around here with tone paper. Volume 1 of The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was done on this very same kind of tone paper (Graphix Duoshade- which is no longer manufactured). It (the paper) is great stuff and really gives a whole other dimension to black and white art. I like in this drawing how not everything needs to be defined by a line and that I could go in with the tones to create textures and patterns.
The dinosaur featured is Gazosaurus, a theropod from the late Jurassic of China.”

Mark: Here’s another comic strip in an ongoing series (of “comic strips”) that I’ve rather painfully regurgitated out of my system. Enjoi?

1940 Harley-Davidson 45 Twin by Jim Lawson

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Jim says:
“Harleys have always been the most universal and omnipresent motorcycles out there and, for me, the Harleys with the most gorgeous looks are the ones from the 40s and 50s. This drawing I did for no other reason than just for fun and to give a little nod to a genuine American classic- the 1940 Harley-Davidson 45 Twin.”