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Starlog Cartoons 1991-93

My first cartoon published in Starlog, Issue #169 August 1991.
Starlog #171 October 1991
Starlog #173 December 1991. I got one detail wrong - the Pillsbury Doughboy didn't appear until 1965.
Starlog #174 January 1992. References Kevin Costner's Robin Hood and Errol Flynn's depiction.
Starlog #174 January 1992. References "The Martian Chronicles", "War of the Worlds" and "My Favorite Martian"
Starlog #175 February 1992
Starlog #176 March 1992. My first color cartoon in the magazine, spoofing "The Rocketeer."
Starlog #176 March 1992. Based on the movie "Hook" that came out in 1991.
Starlog #177 April 1992. The Terminator meets Robocop
Starlog #177 April 1992. The first in my "Cosmic Improbabilities" series.
Starlog #177 April 1992. The Little Mermaid meets the Creature from the Black Lagoon
Starlog #177 April 1992. Star Trek: The Next Generation meets The Love Boat
Starlog #178 May 1992
Starlog #179 June 1992
Starlog #179 June 1992
Starlog #179 June 1992. Features "The Terminator", "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure", "The Time Machine" (TV), "Back to the Future" and "The Time Machine" (1960)
Starlog #179 June 1992
Starlog #179 June 1992. The Orkin corporation bought the original to display in their corporate office.
Starlog #179 June 1992. Can anyone even remember what happened in Star Trek VI?
Starlog #179 June 1992. Anyone even remember the movie "Freejack"?
Starlog #179 June 1992
Starlog #181 August 1992
Starlog #181 August 1992. One of my most popular cartoons.
Starlog #182 September 1992
Starlog #182 September 1992
Starlog #181 August 1992. Tribute cartoon done after the passing of Isaac Asimov on April 6, 1992.
Starlog #183 October 1992
Starlog #183 October 1992. This cartoon was a spoof of a scene from Alien3 (1992) with Sigourney Weaver with a shaved head. I think I over-exaggerated her wide jawbone a bit...
Starlog #183 October 1992
Starlog #184 November 1992. One of my personal favorite cartoons. Who else would try to give Batman a ticket? I was pleased with the renderings of the Batmobile and Robocop and the expression on Batman's face.
Starlog #184 November 1992
Starlog #184 November 1992
I was asked to do a series of cartoons for the 10th Anniversary of "Blade Runner." This first one was a comment on the fashion-disaster outfits in the movie, particularly those of Edward James Olmos' character, Gaff. As you may recall, he also played Lt. Martin Castillo on "Miami Vice." Since Crocket and Tubbs were the epitome of fashion in the early 80's I thought it would be funny to contrast them with the "fashions" of the "Blade Runner" characters.
Starlog #184 November 1992
The second cartoon in my series commemorating the 10th Anniversary of "Blade Runner." This time lampooning replicant Roy Batty's (Rutger Hauer) "Tears in Rain" monologue. What if after he recalled his serious memories he perked up and moved on to some funny stories that came to mind? Harrison Ford, of course, played Han Solo in "Star Wars' and was always annoyed with C-3P0's jabbering.
Starlog #184 November 1992
The third cartoon in my "Blade Runner" series, this time commenting on the "Unicorn Dream Sequence" that had been cut from the original release and included in the 1992 Director's Cut. There were a lot of theories about what the unicorn meant, but I just went with why the heck is a grown man dreaming of unicorn's? Rachel, being a replicant, is developing emotions but they are confusing and the unicorn dream is even more confusing.
Starlog #185 December 1992
Bela Lugosi's Dracula complaining to Nosferatu about The Lost Boys David's (Kiefer Sutherland) 80's fashion sense. I probably still had Miami Vice on my mind from the Blade Runner cartoon series in the previous issue.
Starlog #185 December 1992
Starlog #186 January 1993
This was the first cartoon in a series featuring famous science fiction authors. For those of you who don't read science fiction, Frank Herbert's classic novel is "Dune."
Starlog #186 January 1993
I really have no clue where this idea came from...
Starlog #186 January 1993
Starlog #187 February 1993
And we thought 30 cable channels was excessive!
Starlog #187 February 1993
Another Blade Runner cartoon! For those of you not familiar with the movie, the Spinner was Detective Rick Deckard's (Harrison Ford) flying police car. Ridley Scott was the movie's director.
Starlog #188 March 1993
In the early 90's Patrick Stewart (Star Trek: The Next Generation's Captain Pickard) performed one-man shows of Charles Dicken's "A Christmas Carol" in which he played all forty-plus characters in the story because he wanted a challenge. Here I'm imagining him going back to science fiction for a bigger challenge, a one-man show of Isaac Asimov's "Foundation" series which includes fifteen books and spans a 4,078 year timeline. "Foundation and Empire" was only the second book in the original trilogy.
Starlog #189 April 1993
As I recall, "The Lawnmower Man" was about a mentally deficient man who mows lawns being turned into a genius by a scientist using computer technology. As the man gained intelligence and power he seeks revenge on people who mistreated him by putting his mind into a super computer. This cartoon is what happened if he chose the wrong computer.
Starlog #189 April 1993
Starlog #189 April 1993
One of my all-time favorite cartoons, this one was made into a mug for a sci-fi convention. I still have several in my cabinet.
Starlog #189 April 1993
This cartoon was based on the 1992 movie "Dracula" starring Gary Oldman and Winona Ryder. The story was based mostly in London, thus the "Ye Olde Blood Bank."
Starlog #189 April 1993
Another personal favorite as I always enjoy drawing superheroes in a goofy way. I also liked the way the colors and composition balanced. As far as the topic goes, Superman died in a multi-issue story arc spanning multiple titles in 1992. Of course, he returned at the end.
Starlog #190 May 1993
The Simpsons had only been on the air about three and a half years when this cartoon was published. Hard to believe it's now in its 26th season!
Starlog #190 May 1993
Starlog #190 May 1993
I thought I would share this one as it appeared in the magazine, busting through the article page.
Starlog #191 June 1993
An elderly version of Indiana Jones was featured in the short-lived "The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles" on ABC in 1992-93. Each episode was bookended with segments of the old Dr. Jones talking about the adventure that made up the plot of each show.
Starlog #191 June 1993
For all you non-Trekkies, Odo was a shape-changing alien character from the TV show "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine." A running theme was that although he usually used a humanoid form he could never master it, especially the nose.
Starlog #192 July 1993
Starlog #192 July 1993
Starlog #193 August 1993
I didn't have a copy of this cartoon and for some unknown reason I'm missing my copy of Starlog #193, but I was able to grab a screenshot from the online Starlog archive at https://archive.org/details/starlogmagazine
Starlog #193 August 1993
Starlog #194 September 1993
This cartoon is based on the "Highlander" TV series that ran from 1992 to 1998. The main character, Duncan MacLeod, is the relative of Connor MacLeod, the main character in the "Highlander" movie series. They are Scottish immortals and feel other immortals when they are nearby which I equated with feeling queasy. The woman is Tessa, Duncan's mortal companion. If you're not familiar with haggis, it's a Scottish dish consisting of sheep's heart, liver and lungs, with onion, oatmeal, suet and spices, usually stuffed into an animal's stomach. Yummy!
Starlog #194 September 1993
Starlog #195 October 1993
Starlog #195 October 1993
This cartoon was based on the superhero comedy movie "Meteor Man" from 1993. I never saw the movie so I don't know whether or not he had to learn how to use his newly acquired super powers. But I imagine if he did, an out-of-control Meteor Man must make a meteor crater, right?
Starlog #196 November 1993
This cartoon is based on the TV show "Time Trax" that ran from 1993 to 1994. The main character was Christopher Lambert, a police officer from the future tracking down fugitives in 1993. He was equipped with a computer that he interacted with via a holographic woman. Here she has been replaced with the hologram of Arnold Rimmer from the TV show "Red Dwarf."
Starlog #196 November 1993
This cartoon was based on the Elvis stamps vote in 1992. That was the first time the postal service had put a new stamp design up for public vote.
Starlog #197 December 1993
This cartoon was done early on in my experimenting with Berol Prismacolor Art Markers. Prior to this I had been using transparent acrylics and was looking for a faster method. I eventually went back to the acrylics, but I still use the same set of markers to this day. I did have to replace a few much-used colors recently but most are still in good working order after 22+ years.
Starlog #197 December 1993
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