Binary pin-up sketches

I don't know much about these, other than the fact that they're old.  I recently found them in a folder with some material from the '80's.  But they were drawn so long ago that I simply don't remember what they're for or any of the circumstances surrounding them.  


I'm not even sure if it's really Binary.  It looks like her, but I can't say for certain.  In 1984 I did a set of pin-ups for an issue of Marvel Fanfare that included Jean Grey, She-Hulk and Red Sonja.  This would have fit right in with them except they're all super-skinny and this lady has just a little more meat on her bones.  That leads me to think these were done a bit later, possibly for a commission, but for some reason, it was never completed.


I suppose it's even possible that I did draw a finished version.  I don't think I did, but it was so long ago that I really can't say for certain one way or the other.


First, the 2 x 3" thumbnail sketch, followed by 8.5 x 11" pencil layout:

The Goon: Man of the Hour page 6

Unlike page 5, most of this was worked out in the final pencils, rather than the layouts, but you can see how I changed my mind about a few things as this evolved.  If you compare the pencils scan to the inks, you'll see that I completely redrew the last panel and made the building smaller so that we could see the chaos on the left.  I could have avoided all that wasted effort if I'd tightened up the layout a bit more.

Museum of Oddities, page four

The other day I found some preliminary sketches for this story so I thought I'd share another page.  This is from X-Men First Class Special #1.

The Goon: Man of the Hour page 5

From The GOON NOIR, 2006.  John Arcudi wrote a very funny script for this six-page story.  Here we see The Goon doing what he does best, getting mad and beating people up. As usual, I started with a tiny thumbnail sketch.  It's rough, but most of the action is worked out. For some reason, I decided not to draw the chair that I roughed in on the layout.