Here’s the model sheet for the two henchmen in my latest project. They’re supposed to be homeowner’s insurance agents. Following in the theme of old time scifi comics the outfits should be a given. I decided to make them a gecko and duck as a play off of the Geico and Aflac mascots. True neither one is specifically a homeowner’s insurance company, but the reference will still work for those who pick up on it.I really enjoy putting realistic looking animal heads on human bodies. Its funny and creepy at the same time. I wish I could say I got the idea from Hieronymus Bosch, but Steve Purcell is probably a bigger influence here. The man draws a mean moon rat.

Expect the little guy on the bottom of the page to make a cameo as well.

They’re the victims that need saving by Florida candidate Max Linn in his next adventure, Insurance Storm Rising. The Gordons are about to be struck by a catagory five hurricane moments after having their home owner’s insurance revoked. I’ve just completed the special effect for the hurricane and it looks pretty sweet. Be sure to check out this movie in two weeks if all goes well. Note to up and coming cartoonists and caricaturists: You don’t need to resort to stereotypes to portay ethnicity. Doing your job right should get ethnicity across along with individual personality with a simple line drawing. Color isn’t even necessary. If you can’t make someone look black or asian without big, pink lips or slanty eyes and buck teeth you should probably just shoot yourself. I’m talking to you, Akira Toriyama!

I got some wierd responses to the previous episode – Attack of the FCAT – in the St. Petersburg Times’ Buzz Section:

Hilarious! Love the profile of the female student at the end. Makes it border on an R rating. -Anonymous

Love the cartoon. Wish students looked like that when I was in high school. That girl is hot. -Anonymous

Rich, quit watching that thing, you gonna go blind. -gatordem

Which is odd because I felt Isabella, the character they are referring to and shown in the previous post, was the least sexualized woman I’d ever drawn. I even put her hair in a bun. So I’ve decided to make this episode’s heroine as hot as possible without poking her nipples through her slinky 1950′s sundress. If I’m damned if I do or don’t then I rather do.