Yet Hidden Meanings

Here is a hidden meaning in YETS!. If you have this issue:

In the first story the Tracker Commander, Bruce fights the Yets.


Then he makes friends with the Yets.
Well, the character of Bruce is based on the real life dentist Dr. Bruce Johnson.
Dr. Johnson was the technical adviser for the dental parts to the story and he had an idea for a comic book about dental hygiene back in 1990.
The story was originally written about "The Ortho Team!", bio-naughts that entered a mouth to fill cavities and fight cavity creeps. The story was a lot like the movie "Fantastic Voyage".
Unfortunately the project died a death filled with good intentions
but it was reborn with the Yets.

In the second part to the story, Bruce asks the Yets to enter the mouth of the largest Yet in the TreeWorld and help him find his wife
whose name is Judy.
Judy is based on Dr. Johnson's wife of 42 years.
Judy fit well into the story to show a strong woman who held a family together in times of trouble.
Judy is based on Dr. Johnson's wife of 42 years.
I even fit a cameo of their daughter, Dawn.
She had a smaller role because the real Dawn Johnson is an adult and a doctor in psychiatry.
The real Judy and Bruce liked this YETS! story.
On September 2, 2010 Judy passed from cancer. If you bought this issue of YETS!, and you enjoyed that adventure, and laughed along the way you have honored the memory of
Judy Johnson and

I thank you.


If Art is your life, then put life in your Art.---- a TreeWorld proverb.

Pippen Hill

...after Walt Kelly.

Merry Christmas.

Origins Game Fair 2011 part 5

I gave this proof to the executive director, who will show it to the committee and I'll find out what changes need to be made. Anyway, here is the painting as it looks, it is 18"x24" and I left plenty of room so the right side of the painting can be cropped to size of the convention cover.

The power of YETS?!

So I was teaching some fourth grade students how to draw my infant Yet.
It looks like this:

I always tell my students that, you have created your own personal Yet and that is why your drawings don't look exactly like mine.
Then the next day Mat did two beautiful drawings to fit into my world, two new infant Yets:

The designs are so simple.
Animators can learn a lot from the simplicity of fourth grade students.
What can you do?
Let me know.

Staying in contact....

Here's a new painting.
I've been busy with other things so I haven't had time to post.
Hopefully, I will post again this week.

ConDor convention Feb 25-27, 2011

Here is this year's convention t-shirt & logo!
ConDor is here.
It's San Diego's longest-running science fiction & fantasy convention!

Origins Game Fair 2011 part 4

Well, it is inked and ready to paint!
Does the gag make sense?