The Ancient Kinky, a space-faring family rock band, was the brain-child of Marco Croner, and were but one set of characters in a larger story setting called Stereo World: a world shaped like a giant audio cassette, floating through space.
I did the visual design for the characters, and illustrated one short story, BLOODBUZZ (scroll down for that). The whole project/concept was wonderfully mad, and a lot of fun to work on.
There are four human band members, and a couple of pets. Unfortunately, I seem to have misplaced my preliminary sketches for these characters, but I do have the finished design drawings:
The family flies around on a living asteroid named Laszlo. I didn't do the first design of Laszlo, but this is my sketch for how he would appear in the comic:
For the cover, Kits was supposed to be sitting on a vehicle of some kind. Here are the design sketches I sent to Marco for the TAKmobile:
And finally, there's a big kaiju fight in the comic. The big dude on the right in the following sketch is Jet Plastic; I didn't design him, but I did this preliminary drawing to get an idea of how I'd draw him. The other guy is Pascal, who is my own design.
And then there's the story. Now, I'm more comfortable doing professional work digitally, but Marco had seen some of my traditional work and specifically requested that this thing be drawn on paper. I think it hurt the quality a little bit, but there are some okay panels in here!
This one is indexed under comics, characters, and at year F.
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