Russell Mark Olson

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Comic artist and writer. The Phantom . Past Time. Gateway City. SKRAWL. 2000AD. Mad Cave. Rootbeer aficionado.

A samurai sketch by Pete Taylor
An on-the-board colored page from Gustaffo Vargas featuring a Peruvian-cyber-punk river scene.
Two pages of the comic Gateway City. Well, the same page really, but on the left a sample of the reformatting and on the right the original. The left has been reformatted to fit an A4 paper size and all of the lettering--originally digital lettering--has been redone by hand.
The cover to SKRAWL 3 at its inked stage: printed blue line pencils on A3 bristol board, inked with brush and pen. A butcher in her shop, flanked by two poodles, one in a barrel of pickles and one tugging on hanging sausages that spell "SKRAWL."
Haunted Moonlight: A spell to make you glow in the dark.
A gorgeous, hand drawn and colored comic page from Gustaffo Vargas. A jungle river scene in greens, blues and pinks.
A tombstone with a winged skull on it, drawn in blue ink on a sheet of paper.
Vertigo's Death, viewed from the reflection of a puddle, holding a parasol in a graveyard. B&W
Big Barda standing on top of a fallen Darkseid minion. B&w except fo Barda who is in full color.
A b&w image of an Alien from the Alien film series in a trenchcoat, holding a glass and a bottle of spirits, a cigarette dangling from his rictus maw.
A digital painting of Odin and a raven looming over castle ramparts with spear tips in the foreground.
The crest of the SKRAWLLORDZ: two rampant pink poodles astride a shield bearing a mokapot, a black and tan, and a bent spoon. Flanked by a pen and brush and dripping with ink.
The rolling English countryside with two pink chalk poodles cut into the side of a hill.
SKRAWL #3 is Live on Kickstarter!
Today!! SKRAWL 3 in (Gustaffo wrote this. It's cute) Kickstarter. 80 Pages. Comics. Stories. Interviews. Guest Creators.
A panel from Gateway City. An alien's face, he's sweating, looking down, nervous. A speech bubble for a character off screen reads "He's halfway, ladies and gentlemen..."
An ol' timey clown with a cigarette in his lips sits on a rafter beam and lowers a megaphone down to floor level using a fishing pole.
The cover to SKRAWL #3. A butcher stands in an apron in the center of the image. She's holding a knife and leaning back against the counter. A pig's head wearing a straw boater is hanging beside her. On the other side a row of sausages hang that spell "SKRAWL." Two pink poodles are on either side of her, one tugging at a strand of sausages, the other submerged in a barrel of pickles. Art by me.
A splash page from Gateway City Vol. 4 depicting the boiler room of a 1920s cruise liner. The elegant passengers are shoveling coal into the red hot furnaces.
The cover to SKRAWL #2: a green and pink cover of a Peruvian cyberpunk woman designed by Gustaffo Vargas.
The cover to SKRAWL Comix Magazine issue #1. A woman with a side-shaved fauxhawk in profile, with a pen and paintbrush behind her ear. Artwork by Martin Simpson.
Rees-Mogg stans frozen as the ectoplasmic ghost of Mosely in his blackshirt leaks out of Mogg's mouth.
Behold, the eyes of the pink poodle.
A panel from the comic Gateway City. Two clowns (circa 1920s) are beaned in the head by an apple and a tightrope walker's balancing pole. The one hit by an apple makes a BOK sound effect, while the pole makes a "FANK" sound effect.
Two small clay cameos featuring cartoonish versions of 17th century fancy people.
Panel 1: the entrance to a bullfighting ring. A poster featuring a matador reads: El Matador Panel 2: Interior of the ring. A matador receives adulation from a sunlit crowd. Panel 3: The adulation continues. From the left of the panel a charging bull appears. Panel 4: The matador bows, the bull is about to butt him in the keister.
The Haymarket Theatre, Basingstoke: Mike Wozniak, The Bench
A sketch of Adele Blanc Sec in natural history museum standing in front of a partially visible dinosaur skull with menacing cultural masks on the wall behind...though one of them may be more real than it seems. Adele has a handgun drawn.
A loose pencil sketch of a t-rex smoking a cigarette and playing a baby grand piano while a a pterodactyl plays upright bass. The t-rex sings: Can't hold ya 'cuz my arms are too small/ can't hold ya cuz my arms are too small/ but I can kiss you honey/ you just gotta climb into my maw/ won't eat you babe, no I promise you/ Won't eat you babe, no I promise you/ Just want a nibble honey/ just a nip will do.
A 90s notebook made with "environmental paper" which contains real coffee beans.
A poster announcing that I'm a contributor to an upcoming Thunderbirds comic anthology.
European Bee-eaters
Manny Calavera from Grim Fandango.
A panel from Gateway City. An alien woman with long floppy ears and a long tunic is in the middle of dense alien vegetation. Black inks over blue pencil lines.
15th century relief from St. Winifred's Chapel at Selsey. A knight with a lance. Big boy!