All of this original comic art made by me is available to print and frame for you and can be put on eBay for sale. Just email me and ask me which one you want me to put on sale for you on eBay. I have this all backed up on DVD also for sale.
Sincerely, The Artist of the website Radman_Art
These are all comics I did in the late 1980's in hopes that I would be a professional comic creator for life:
Be Good
I re did the words on this one too. Mike Rodregez was my best friend for years before I got Married. He was a semi pro baseball player. I met him at the church I was attending. He was a good guy and a bit of a dork. That is why I name this dude Mike and drew him to likeness. Skating around San Diego could be dangerous, allot of sk8ers I met where wild west types, I never had a problem with them, they where like my brother’s. I heard allot of story though. It is no wonder I was chosen as skate security by Tracker for east San Diego contests. I remember seeing a report on the news about a lady that would go around and preach on the street in San Diego. She would get picked at and threatened, that is one of the reasons I drew this comic.
Cro-Magnum Insects
This is one of the few comics you will see on my site that are full regulation size. Simply because they are so hard to scan. I attended the San Diego Comic Convention and learned how to draw comics regulation. These make up half of the comics I drew. This comic is a result of that and reading the book recommended to me by San Diego Comic Con: Will Eisner’s how to draw comic’s. Notice the splash page at the end. When I was living in California we used to get insects in our house that where foreign to me, being from Connecticut, this is what inspired me to draw this one. In case of a nuclear war only insects will survive, this was also the inspiration for this. Also move’s like attack of. I had been drawing allot of drawings that featured insect people types. This comic is a off spring of those drawings. The drawings I have done are like little comics with no words, I have about 750 pages of drawings.
Deadman
This Deadman comic is one of the best as far as art goes. Deadman is the result of reading under ground comics as a kid. There was this skeleton dude that rode a chopper. Every episode would start out where he was in trouble then would end where he had it made. It stuck with me my whole life, hence the animation Deadman. My dad was a cop and I loved and looked up to my dad and his friends. I always would relate my heroes I drew in comics co-operating with the police. This effect of ink in this comic is something I did allot. People love it. I was showing my art at San Diego Comic Con and this dude said to the vender why don’t you have more comics like this, pointing to my comics. I liked to use a poetic way of speaking especially with dead man. When ever he spoke it would be like surreal poetry.
Deadmananipt:
This is the comic that inspired the famous Deadman animation.
I put the grave near the 1st cell because I had drawn deadman so many times before I drew this comic. I had drawn many pictures of deadman. The pictures I have drawn all 1500 of them are like little comics with no words, especially the deadman drawings. As a skater and a skier I am familiar with the tuck position as in cell 4. The dude on the wall is supposed to be Jimmi Hendrex. I had drawn the triangles before in pictures those can's in their hands say DDT. If I had the full animation up on my site you would see this comic is just like the animation. Except I left out the cop and the street gang dudes for obvious reason in 3D. The cop pig was not to insult cops I had been sending art to Z Pig Skateboard company up until I moved to California.
Decay
I re did the works for this one too. I drew Decay in honor of the skate shop I would frequent called Stix, in San Marco’s California. It was a little country shop in a little shopping mall. The dude in the shop looked like the guy in the comic. We kind of where friends. I still have the boards from back then with the cool equipment on them I bought at his shop. Also the shop is drawn like it was then. also I created a logo for stix on the bottom of the devil’s skateboard. Deadman stars in this one too. This whole comic comes from a drawing I did that was this skull it is so cool.
Dinisor
Dinisor comics are from when I worked for Tracker. Nina who was in charge of sales told me not to correct the misspelling of dinosaur. So I never did. Dinosor is one of the comics I sold Tracker, not this one but a very poorly drawn one. So of course I made it my mission to create them even better every time. On the bottom of the volcano comic is a short comic that has nothing to do with the comic. I did this in other comics. This is part of the underground comic way. Dinosaur’s where a big deal with Tracker then. This one dude who was sponsored by tracker had only dinosaurs on his board that is one of the main reasons I did the Dinosaurs comic. The Volcano scene is about me trying to find sk8 spots in southern cal. The free style contest reference is because Tracker would encourage me to go to these contest they where great the things these dudes could do where amazing to me and inspired me to do many comics on the subject. The reference to Las Vegas was from this dude I met from there who was supposed to get my comic’s published. he would go on and on about how great it was to skate in Las Vegas and this pool. I ended up driving him to the airport in San Diego with my wife and lending him $20.00 of witch he gave me appear of shin guards that I have till this day. The skate park reference was about my wives and Mine’s mini vacations we would spend in Upland California. Also it show the big controversy amongst skaters back then about street skating verses parks. The upland comic was a example of me using a old fashioned ink pen. I did this for several comics I drew. Notice they are skating indoors on the next comic. I used to skate in my apartment. We did not have much furniture, oh to be young. CASL was a contest I attended it was awesome and was the inspiration for the ending on this comic. I would make reference to crime allot because of the crime in southern Cal was kind of a shock to me at times. I own a Kuhara Magician Pro then and was a fan of bikes like that.
Dragon
These pages of comics where drawn by me in the winter of 1998. I love dragons as you can tell by my paintings. This comic has no words and deals with a mothers vengeance. My favorite is cell 6. I love the way it came out. I drew this with a broke pen and shaded it with colored pencils. Their is a very cool little city in the back ground with a port, it is a reference to my home town of Middletown Connecticut that has the Conn. River running through it. Middletown was a shipping port in the 1800's. That is where my family began to arrive for Sicily. I chose red to symbolize the bad dragon. I re did cell 6 in photo shop back in 2002 for my old web site.
Duke
I have always loved the duke comic. It was a example how bad crime was and how someone could be a victim by just being a idiot. Bugged out was a popular saying in the 1980’s. People would complain about perspective in my comics so drawing duke was sweet revenge. I tried to be funny as possible with this comic. I had drawn triangle heads allot back then and this was a result of that.
Egghead
This is the comic I drew in the late 1980's that inspired the Egghead animation by me.
I had drawn egghead before many times. The comic Shapes was the first time Egghead was in a comic. Rambo II was playing, a popular movie at the time. Being from the East Coast I was always a Sylvester Stallone fan. This comic was a joy to draw.
Another small comic. The first cell is how my apartment looked then. I drew this out of frustration of not finding a good spot to skate in s Cal. Skateboarding is not a crime was first campaigned back then. It was a big deal. This was a influence on me as far as activism goes. I drove from Vista California to San Diego California to skate Steve Stedham’s ramp and when I got there this took place.
This comic I took stick on letters and used them for the words. It is done on large bristle board. You can see how I make reference her to me being Radman. I actually attended contests like this with a corny mike and all.
Radman saves is a comic I made to pass out at the Mike Mcguil skate park. That was the reason I drew it so I had to be as nice as I could because I might be handing it out to kids. Although the art is child like I always liked it. I always liked the scene where Radman is sleeping on clouds. I got the idea of Radman falling and getting up when I saw Lance Mountain do that at the park. The ramps in the comic are modeled after the ramps at that famous park. I would be able to go to the park free like 50 times because I did a t-shirt project for Mike. I do not know if he ever used it. Mike Mcguil was one of the Powell Puralta gang from the Chin Movie. He was a stunt guy for Gleaming the Cube too. He was like my friend back then. I purposely drew the skaters in impossible positions because there was this kid who used to criticize my art because of the angles of the tricks.He used to say this trick is not possable to do. If fact I think he is the reason I drew this comic. Allot of these kids where real pro skaters. Like my wife's favorite Danny Way. For some reason my wife remembered this little dude. This kid was really good. I saw him beat Tony Hawk one time in this game on the Chicago blow out ramp one time. I used to staple the comics in little books back then they where kind of neat. Those where the days, I was king of the world with a skateboard. Hanging at that park made you famous. One time this magazine from Australia had me pose for picture for them. I would meet pros like steve Stedham in the parking lot and show him my art for sale. The problem was when I moved away to San Luis Obispo, I lost touch with every one. The funny thing was about 6 months before they Mike McGuil put the park there I had heard about it from some skaters and used to hop the fence and skate there. I remember one time convinsing the guys that worked there to let me skate and they did. I could not believe it because every one said how tough they where. I think it was a skate park in the 1970’s. I heard they had to shut it down because the skaters used to get into fights with the race car people. It was on the same land as a race car track. By the time they built the park I was already good at skating the old cement. I used to do this one trick where I would drop in like a fall for a 5 foot high vertical lip of concrete. It used to impress people. I remember Larry Balma told me that was pretty good. But since my street skater buddy’s where always against sponsor ship I never wanted to be sponsored because I thought of all the really great skaters around Vista, San Marco’s and Escondido that should be sponsored and where not. that park was so close to where I lived. The picture on my web site now is of the industrial park in back of the apartment I lived in Vista. Carlbad park was on the other side of that. The only thing was there was no roads that way. The weather was perfect and the sky was blue every day.
Sk8er
This is one my favorite comic I ever did. My love for sk8 boards where at a all time high. I did this comic on art board, not official size. It was just before I attended the Comic Con. If fact when I make reference to the Deadman comic the dude at the convention was talking about that very comic. I make reference to crazy moms allot in my comics. My mom is very cool and has always been. you no scan or camera takes the place of the human eye! You have to see my art to appreciate it.
Skate Man
I wrote this comic just before I thought up Radman. Can you tell? Look, I was a body builder and sk8 boarder in the 1980’s. I always felt as if I was looked up to. I did every thing I could at all times to set a good example. That is why most of my comics are like they are from back then.
Skulls
I handed out copies of skulls at the comic convention. It went over well. I handed out page two to one booth page 1 to another. There was this one guy from a booth who was collecting them from people trying to make a set. This is a example of movies like omega man having such a big influence on me.
SC was about skaters that never got sponsored that should have. I used to run into these dudes allot around Vista California they where so good it was amazing. Yet they where against sponsorship. These guys hated contests. Me and my lady where at a contest in Escondido Cal back then and this dude ollied 5 trash cans and got a low score. I thought there was going to be a riot. This is the reason allot of my comics from those days where like that.
Tracker Man
TM was aimed exactly at Tracker cause I loved them. Taco land was a ditch I used to skate allot. I had been run into at Mike’s park one time that was why I mentioned it in this comic. Skating in ditches in the woods with thugs tended to cause you to think of a possible fight breaking out. I owned and loved my Honda Shadow 500 here I drew it. This comic is from a true story that involved Larry Balma the owner of Tracker Designs. I drew this comic because of a newspaper article I saw about this ditch they blocked skaters from.
This was for the company in Las Vegas that was supposed to publish my comics. Its is based on every thing this dude told me about Las Vegas and skating there. the names are names of him and his friend. I took notes on what he said and did the comic for him.
Upland
Upland is my favorite memories of skating. It was a huge cement park. Steve Alba was a legend there. This comic is based on that park and it’s bitter end shortly after I skated there. I was very angry when they tore it down. I remember this one story some of the skaters told me about Alva skating around with a switch blade threatening people. I guess cause of stuff like that they closed it.
