Trash!
Shaenon: The last sample page of Trash! Jesse did this one in color to offer a look at his mad coloring skills. Thanks again, Jesse, for working with me on this book. I’ve been amazingly lucky over the years in the caliber of artists who have agreed to draw stuff for me (look over the artists on Li’l Mell if you have any doubt), but Jesse Hamm is one of the best. He’s one of those guys who used to send his work to the legendary Alex Toth for art lessons and general abuse.
As mentioned a while back, you can see more of Jesse’s art on his blog, and be sure to check out his recent story in Hawkeye.
Channing: This is in no way to diminish his other fine work, but the best thing about this picture is the purpleness of the lemur. I’m fond enough of the normal monochromatic coloration, but I also think nature should provide me with a full-spectrum lemur experience when I want it. Nature keeps letting me down.
If there’s a kickstarter for this book, I’d participate. It looks like a great story.
I like how it promptly drops into a conspiracy.
Then again – I’ve been reading alot of things that HAVE hidden conspiracies to decipher – Like SH…
I’m guessing it’ll be either some sort of smuggling/crime, they are secret agents, or a hide the existance of a new race of sapients, or possibly the existance of a superior tech society.
It’s not really a conspiracy, except insofar as three people working together to use their government owned trash barge as a smuggling vessel is a conspiracy. There’s no indication there’s anything more sinister going on than some minor lawbreaking.
(TUNE: “Travelin’ Man”, Ricky Nelson)
He’s a coloring Hamm!
He’s drawn a lot of strips …
With ink and with pen!
And when it comes to talent, he outstrips
All the best of comics men!
He’s got lots of sample pages
There on his site …
You can see them for free!
And then he drew some Trash-y art one night
Just for Shae-non Gar-ri-ty!
Oh, his Marvel art is a class apart!
It’s the finest we know!
And his Hawkeye girl sets my heart a-whirl …
(I would be her “beau”!)
I’ve been slogging through his blogging,
Reading about …
All the art that he saw!
All these essays, they make me wanna shout,
“Would you please shut up and draw!?”
Oh, he’s a coloring Hamm …
Yeah, just a coloring Hamm …
This is the last? Waaah! I’ve been enjoying this very much. I’d love to see more.
Oh no, this can’t be the last page. Surely you wouldn’t have stopped here. What do we need to do to see the rest of it?
No more…. i think I may cry, it has been so awesome so far!
Hey cool! I was so swamped in March that these last couple of Trash posts slipped my notice. Thanks Shaenon, for the chance to work on Trash, and thanks to you folks in the comments for the kind comments. (And to Eddurd for the sweet song!!!)
It was such a cool story, in a genre too rarely seen in American comics; I’m still sad the market wasn’t strong enough to support it. But at least we still have superhero comics, and other, less mainstream superhero comics.
… is this still for sale? I couldn’t find it in the store.
Unfortunately, it never was for sale. These samples are all that ever got made.
http://jessehamm.com/2013/02/03/trash/
And now, even the blog is gone. ;_;
There’s always the Archive…
https://web.archive.org/web/20201023032505/http://jessehamm.com/2013/02/03/trash/