BRENDAN McCARTHY
@MysticMcCarthy
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Artist/writer in comics, movies and animation. Mad Max Fury Road, first TMNT film, Coneheads, ReBoot. SKIN, Rogan Gosh, Judge Dredd, Dream Gang
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Here's the design for the alien from the ENEMY MINE movie, one of my first movie gigs.
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Never seen this before: DC house ad by Steranko for their forthcoming The Shadow comic series, early 70s.
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Sadly, my eyesight has deteriorated to a point where drawing any new comics is unrealistic. I've always worn glasses and done alright, but lately there's been a marked decline.
I can still write and design stuff, and I'll do a final 'Art Of' book at some point. But that'll be it.
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Shade The Changing Man collaged covers, early 90s.
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1/5 FURY ROAD: This is my story diagram that formed the basis of the initial script and the storyboard/screenplay that became the final document.
You can see it's all pretty much there.
For those interested, here's the story beats in more detail. Thread:
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Someone's posted up a storyboard/footage comparison of FURY ROAD. Take a look!
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) | Storyboard to Screen
• Directed by: George Miller
• Written by: George Miller,
@MysticMcCarthy
& Nick Lathouris
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JUDGE DREDD costumes created for 2000AD over the years.
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My first decent JUDGE DREDD image, a cover for 2000AD, from 1979.
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Having retired from drawing comics ( eyesight issues), it's a bit weird looking back on my art over 5 decades and realising that there won't be any new comics to come from me. I have reams of great unmade projects that'll never see the light of day.
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Very early Brett Ewins sketches of Judge Dredd around 1978 I'd say.
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REBOOT: Found an old folder from 1996 of design drawings from the Webworld stuff in season 3.
Not sure how much of this stuff was in that 'Art Of ReBoot' book, but I'll post some up anyway.
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JUDGE DREDD, late 80s I think.
This was one of my better Dredd images, but the scanning/reproduction in the comic was attrocious.
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Looking back, I feel this 80s/90s period was when I was really cooking. Shade covers, Rogan Gosh, Paradax and Mirkin, SKIN, bit of Dredd here and there.
Making comics in that 80s wave was exciting and many good creators broke through.
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DESIGNS and BOARDS from the first TMNT movie, mid 90s. Directed by Steve Barron, it's still considered the best of them.
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Recent JUDGE DREDD art, just printed in the Megazine UK monthly. Dredd done as a Frank Miller Dark Knight homage.
Original B&W A3 art will be for sale. DM for details, make offer etc. I'm planning a new art sale soon of various random drawings, comic pages and Artoons.
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But thanks for the list of retailers I'll make a point of shopping with.
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Really love the design of this character by Brett Ewins.
SKREEMER from DC/Vertigo, late 80s I think.
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JUDGE DREDD 'Rain' cover from Riders On The Storm 2000AD
#473
, in the year of Tharg 1986.
I had the front cover, the Dredd colour spread and B&W story, and Sooner or Later on the back cover.
I think this was my peak 2000AD edition. Downhill all the way after that!
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JUDGE DREDD/MAD MAX commission from some years ago.
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When I'd travel to Italy or Spain as a young fellah, I'd pick up these smaller book-sized comics which often had these racy painted covers and which seemed to be on sale everywhere.
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Absurdly good Steranko spread from his OUTLAND movie adaptation.
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@ScripttoScreen_
By the way, not sure if you've seen this, but it's a photo of me and George Miller snapped the day we finished working out the final storyline on a whiteboard. Look closely, you can see the main movie story beats.
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MAD MAX FURY ROAD
Sketch from 1997 which became iconic image from the movie.
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2000AD Cover 1988.
How can this be over 30 years ago? Another age...
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Brett Ewins original drawing of the floating Mad Hatter head from Freakwave, partially inked.
Eclipse Comics 1984
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MAD MAX FURY ROAD
This is the cover of the original pitch document to the studio, which at that time was FOX. 1997.
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DOOM PATROL cover from 1992. It never got used, no idea why. It's never been seen much really, so here it is.
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MAD MAX FURY ROAD commission: I was asked to put the Mel Gibson era Max into a Fury Road setting, and use my original logo for the piece.
Paint and ink, A3. For a customer in Japan.
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One of the best contemporary comic book artists, Frank Quitely, does a TED talk on things comics do that other mediums can't:
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My vertigo Shade covers were a mixed bag to begin with, but eventually I hit a run of good ones.
Spread from The Best Of Milligan & McCarthy book collection published by Dark Horse.
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MAD MAX FURY ROAD
My first production artwork for the movie. 1997. Took ages to get the movie made!
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Montage of JUDGE DREDD art from my prime 2000AD Dredd period.
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Found this Mad Max Fury Road image on a disc I hadn't looked at in many years: Hovercar zooms across desert, big mesa looming in the sunset.
Also some older abstract painting images - a few of which I posted earlier.
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@afneil
What about Karl Marx in Highgate Cemetery? Are you pro taking that one down too? His philosophy led to the totalitarian mass-murder of the Communist regimes.
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Z-MEN design for a Vertigo comic series that didn't happen. 1995
Retooled it into Dream Gang about 15 years later.
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SUBTERRANIA 1995
Unmade movie designs. Nazi Bat-mutants living underground in giant caverns.
A decade before 'Iron Sky'.
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Old Paradax! Christmas card sent to Brett Ewins 1985.
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I once sent a copy of my art book SWIMINI PURPOSE to Steve Ditko.
He wrote back. He liked it!
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Curio: About 10 years ago I drew this obscure mash-up of Dr Strange and Captain America for Marvel. Written by Matt Fraction.
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My costume designs for the new Mark Millar/Frank Quitely comic series THE AMBASSADORS - out now. Go get it!
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FREAKWAVE! 1983
Still from a Freakwave! movie pitch myself and Peter Milligan put together which morfed into the comic series.
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This was my breakthrough cover for 2000AD from 1979, when I was starting to find my style.... I nicked it off an old Doc Savage image. The artist Ron Smith later used it about ten million times!
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Image from FREAKWAVE movie pitch, created with Peter Milligan, 1984.
I later repurposed the 'retro-gangster' car designs into Fury Road.
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MAD MAX FURY ROAD
Unused character, THE PIANO MAN. 1997
That's yer lot for the time being.
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NINJA TURTLES: I was part of the creative team on the first TMNT movie. We regrouped for a new Hallmark version but it fell apart.
Director Steve Barron got me to do little action images that looked like 'production art' to assure producers that a good movie was being made.
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Terry Hall RIP. Lead singer of 80s TwoTone band The Specials.
Loved his deadpan delivery and glum, elfin persona.
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FURY ROAD Buzzard and retro 'gangster' car. Concepts and designs invented by me for the movie, way back in 1997.
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Z-MEN 1994 Designs for a series for Vertigo which in the end didn't happen. But I retooled the idea as Dream Gang, published about 20 years later with Dark Horse. Bootboy didn't make it and The Moonster became Luna.
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Lordy! Came across this try-out page myself and Brett Ewins did to get a gig on Judge Dredd, back in about 1978 or thereabouts. Pretty shitty, but... We got better!
Back in the day when Dredd as a character design hadn't quite been nailed yet. Bolland/McMahon took care of that.
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STEVE DITKO
I had Steve and Stan meet up in my Marvel story FEVER. They say goodbye to each other in a comic, in case they didn't in real life.
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3 DREDD covers in the style of Kirby, Ditko and Steranko.
IDW the publisher.
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SHADE Cover artwork, early 90s.
I came across this original art the other day clearing out old folders. They're tiny collages, about 4 x 2.5 inches which I then enlarged, using a colour photocopier to create the psychedelic FX (pre-photoshop).
Printed versions below.
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MAD MAX FURY ROAD 1997
Part of the first storyboard sequences I did, this has Max hanging up being appraised by the Blood Banker (later named 'Organic Mechanic').
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Fun Fact 2: Stan Lee approached Mainframe Entertainment in the mid-1990s with a script to animate a THOR movie based on the epic Odinsword storyline. I was super-excited to design a cg movie in the style of Jack Kirby. Sadly, it fizzled out.
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JUDGE DREDD
Four covers done in various comics artist styles: Kirby, Miller, Steranko and Ditko.
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Unused design idea for vehicle. 1997
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SHADE cover original art, before the digital fx applied. Vertigo Comics 1991
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Judge Dredd attacking a phantom Judge Death.
Page from one of those 2000AD annuals of the 80s.
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ROGAN GOSH early sketch 1988.
This character design came pretty easily as the distinctive 'Bollywood sci-fi' concept was brand new at the time.
The sitar-gun was a sonic weapon.
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ROGAN GOSH, mid 90s.
I'd like to have explored the Indian sci-fi elements more, as a kind of 'Bollywood Bladerunner'.
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Having a big clearout of old folders, found this nice drawing of The Shadow by me old buddy Brett Ewins from 1974.
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Seems SKIN won an Italian Comicon award for best edition of a Classic comic. Skin had an Italian-language version published last year.
Nice to see the book finally get some love, even if it's taken almost 35 years!
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For me, looking at art can be just as good as looking at movies.
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MAD MAX FURY ROAD
Mel Gibson was originally in the role. Here's the sequence in the truck towards the end with the blood transfusion. 1997
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Bowie-esque version of Ditko's THE CREEPER. 2012
It was for a pitch for a Creeper miniseries for DC. In my version, rather than being a news reporter, he was a TV chat host based on Craig Ferguson's surreal late night show.
DC said... NO!
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1/ Original 100 page pitch document I put together for director George Miller for Mad Max Fury Road. From the initial 6 months of story/design work in 1997.
Only three were made, and this is my signed copy. Have no idea if the other two still exist.
Wonder what it's worth?
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Sketch for Dredd story pitch I didn't bother with: Dredd takes control of the Justice Space Fleet when it's attacked by pirates and puts together an armada to take on the enemy ships.
Probably just an excuse for another nifty Megacity costume.
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FURY ROAD designs for NUX. This was the 'white body' design closer to the final movie. I tried to sell George Miller on the bullet-hole tattoo style, but he went for something else; engine scarification and 'Day Of The Dead' tattoos.
I still like the pinned-on toys mohawk!
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RIDERS ON THE STARS: About 30 years ago I got the late Carlos Ezquerra to do some cool designs for a 'spaghetti sci-fi' TV series I was developing. It's been gathering dust in an folder ever since. Could still be a gritty cg animated series... maybe a comic. What say you?
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A few MAD MAX FURY ROAD images that I don't think I've put up before:
My first storyboards of FURIOSA turning the War Rig off the road. It's towards the start of the movie. 1997
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I think this was the last Dredd cover of my vintage 80s era, using colour xerox machines to produce the image. I later developed this technique for DC's early 90s Shade covers.
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Original A3 colour xerox art for a MR X comic cover. Early 90s.
Back then, in the steam-driven pre-photoshop days of yore, I used colour copiers that were only just coming onto the market to do all those Vertigo Shade covers - and other ones, like this.
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