It’s a small, single evening artist market put on by Vancouver animation studio Atomic Cartoons, and I will be there tabling with many other remarkable artists!
HOW MUCH DOES IT COST TO GET IN?
Nothing!
WHAT KIND OF STUFF WILL TOREN HAVE TO PURCHASE (AND GIVE AWAY!)
The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets merchandise (stickers, CDs, and maybe even shirts!)
My dreaded Cthulhu & His Greasy Spawn poster, in various sizes
These brand new stickers:
Comic book anthologies featuring Spaceship Zero and my World Wildlife Federation of Justice characters!
SSZ comic page 5 $200
Actual physical original drawings that were published in D&D books – priced to move! Everything below AND MUCH MORE
It all started in the late 90’s, I made a character for a superhero roleplaying game I was playing. That was Rhinosferatu, the vampire rhino
He was such a hit I started thinking about what other animal superheroes and villains I could make using punny portmanteaus. Some worked! Boomerangutan, Cardinal Sin, Dupligator, Earthquack… Others, not so much (Dire Rhea?)
Naturally, I started drawing all these characters, studying character design by buying a lot of old Super Goof, Mighty Mouse and Baby Huey comics.
When the opportunity arose, I created a mini-comic, “The Ominous Origin of Rhinosferatu” that was published in a local anthology
Rhinosferatu Page 3
This led to another, longer comic with a wider array of characters in a book called “Mega Fauna”
“Eye Eye Eye” written by Ian Boothby
Once I became a storyboard artist, I used Storyboard Pro to make a rough opening titles sequence for a proposed cartoon
Suffice it to say that anthropomorphic animal super heroes have been a bit part of my life for a very long time. I love the designs, the mash-ups, and the puns.
The WWFJ has been pitched before in different formats, but some real life ordeals that have come up lately made me realize that the way I deal (or not deal) with real people could use some work. And so with that angle I have re-adjusted the pitch to include the character of Wally Zoo, who likes to lose himself in a fantasy world. I hope that with this series I can tie the good clean fun of comic superheroes into a project with heart that can help others — and myself — work through some personal difficulties.
At long last, and with the help of some talented folks, I have finished a demo animatic for a proposed cartoon series for the World Wildlife Federation of Justice.
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