RIP Sam Kieth, Comic Artist and Creator of The Maxx. Life-long inspiration

[goodjesse]

I don’t know where else to post this or if it’s even appropriate but Sam Kieth recently passed away from a horrible disease, a combination of Alzheimer’s (which took my mother) and Parkinson’s (which also runs in my family.)
Sam is the most influential artist of my life and not one line I have drawn in the last 33 years hasn’t been guided in some part by his hand. He will always be with me.

This is an homage, one of several, I did back in high school. ( about 26 years ago.)

And this is just a random page from a sketch book from seven years ago that felt appropriate.

[Owzo]

RIP, absolute legend. The Mask just blew my mind as a teenager. Liquid Television on SBS late at night in 90s Australia. Often that show randomly comes into my mind, and I think about it with fondness. Dementia is a hard enough battle but coupled with Parkinson’s is an especially cruel hand to be dealt.