Eric Trautmann

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Writer/graphic designer. Current project: THE FORGED (with Greg Rucka and Mike Henderson, Image Comics). Put pants on Vampirella; regrets nothing.

Semi-nude image of The Eternal Empress riding atop a falling sci-fi bomb (one of many) through a starfield, with the caption "Of course you realize…THIS MEANS WAR). Art: Mike Henderson. Colors: Nolan Woodard.
Young blonde girl, holding my dog when he was a puppy.
Ozzy, a 3-year old Czech Shepherd, in profile, lying in the grass and generally being Very Best Boy™.
Cover to THE FORGED #11, art by Mike Henderson. Cover text reads "Pitched BATTLE Between FORGED teams! A High-Tech HEIST In T-Space! And A Great Big Holographic DONG!"
A title card from an original STAR TREK ep, featuring a quote from ALIENS, courtesy of an image generator.
Excerpt from THE FORGED #10. Spymaster General Davian walks away from a colorful holographic war map to ponder his next move... Art: Mike Henderson; Colors: Nolan Woodard.
Cover art for THE FORGED #10 (art by Mike Henderson, colors by Nolan Woodard), featuring the Eternal Empress in her younger days, leading her fleet to conquest, and gesturing at a holographic map.
Stock photo of a creepy-looking vintage toy monkey.
Sign in a park with kanji and the translation "Do Not Disturb, Tiny Grass Is Dreaming."
Screen cap of an old X post, which reads: Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from the classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus
Turnaround .gif of a futuristic cargo-hauling robot.
Close up pic of a dark brown Czech Shepherd sleeping.
Madeline Kahn scene from the movie CLUE.
Picture of me, in my messy office, screaming.
A ghoulishly laughing Jack Nicholson as Jack Torrence from the film, THE SHINING.
Movie poster for the movie BLACK RAIN.
Book cover of "The Mad Scientists' Club." Five teen boys sit in a makeshift clubhouse, planning and scheming their next escapade…
Emoji of a weeping "smiley face."
Elon Musk with a stupid, highly punchable expression on his highly punchable face. This fucking guy.
Silhouetted figure of a person carrying an umbrella, about to be swamped by tidal waves from all sides, captioned "HAPPY NEW YEAR 2025 IS GOING TO BE GREAT."
Photo of a US Air Force fighter plane, with the name "Capt. Eric S. Trautmann" and the callsign "Pretzel Goldfish" Photoshopped onto the fuselage.
Cover of HEX #1.
Poster art for "Goodfellas" featuring Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci, and a dead body lying under a NYC overpass.
Movie poster for "A Fish Called Wanda" featuring John Cleese, a fish in a silver dress, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline, and a heavily bandaged Michael Palin.
Movie poster for "The Last Starfighter" featuring Lance Guest.
Poster art for the movie serial "The Phantom Empire" featuring Gene Autry.
Poster art for "Operation Petticoat" featuring Cary Grant, Tony Curtis, and a pink WWII-era submarine.
Poster art for "Never Say Never Again" featuring Sean Connery, Barbara Carrera, and Kim Basinger. (Also, the first Bond movie I ever saw in a theater.)
Poster art for "The Outlaw Josey Wales" featuring Clint Eastwood.
Poster art for "The Great Mouse Detective," featuring the image of the animated villain of the film, "Ratigan."
Movie poster for "The Fisher King," featuring Jeff Bridges and Robin Williams.
Poster art for "Flash Gordon" featuring Max von Sydow, Sam Jones, and Melody Anderson.
Poster art for "The Court Jester" featuring Danny Kaye.
Horizontal movie poster for "Charade," featuring Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn.
"Casablanca" movie poster featuring Humphrey Bogart.
Movie poster featuring Steve McQueen as "Bullitt."
Movie poster of THE ROCKETEER, rendered in an art deco style.
Movie poster for THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD, featuring Errol Flynn and Basil Rathbone.
Poster art from the movie REAL GENIUS, featuring Val Kilmer.
Theatrical one-sheet poster from RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK.
Poster art for THE MALTESE FALCON featuring Humphrey Bogart and Mary Astor.
Poster from the film FORBIDDEN PLANET.
Image of the hardcover edition of Greg Rucka's A GENTLEMAN'S GAME novel.
Image of a hardcover edition, bound in red leather and embossed in gold, of the Complete Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Book cover to the Douglas Adams novel, A HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY.
Cover to a hardcover omnibus edition of several Ian Fleming James Bond novels, including FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE, CASINO ROYALE, LIVE AND LET DIE, DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER, DR. NO, and GOLDFINGER.
Image of the dust jacket for a hardcover edition of HARLAN ELLISON'S DEATHBIRD STORIES.
Mike Meyers as "Dr. Evil" from the AUSTIN POWERS film franchise.
Close up of the puppet/Muppet Oscar the Grouch from the television show SESAME STREET.
Donald Trump, during his presidency, on the front yard of the White House, watching/seemingly yelling at the young boy who had volunteered to mow the lawn. Caption added: "'WE'RE NOT WEIRD PEOPLE. WE'RE ACTUALLY JUST THE OPPOSITE.' -- Weird Guy Donald T. Trump, 2024."
Black and white photo of Humphrey Bogart smoking a cigarette and holding a black station of a falcon—a publicity still from THE MALTESE FALCON.
Cover to the Marvel Comics adaptation of CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND, featuring two figures (one male, one female) watching a UFO soar overhead toward Devil's Tower in Wyoming.
Cover to Marvel's adaptation of the movie RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK, featuring hero Indiana Jones, and his Gal Friday, Marion Ravenwood.
A large spaceship, the Battlestar Galactica, roars through space as a battle between her defending starfighters (called Vipers) and the flying wing-style robot ships, called Cylon Raiders.
Wraparound cover art by Jack Kirby for the Marvel "Treasury Special" adapting "2001: A Space Odyssey." Apes, weird technology, spaceships.
Image of a glowing CASSANDRA (a character from the Image Comics series, THE FORGED) superimposed over a colorful starfield, a profile image of main character VICTORY, and a stylized gear motif.
Cover to the second volume collecting issues 4-6 of the Image Comics series, THE FORGED. Features a gleeful looking female space soldier in high-tech battle armor, being spattered by alien guts.
Cover to the second volume of Image Comics series THE FORGED, featuring a grinning female super soldier in high-tech battle armor being spattered by alien monster guts.
An uncomfortable looking cat being petted on the head, captioned "Me anxious and confused as why someone's being nice to me."