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” Hey, look what I found this weekend! This is a blast from my checkered past, a 20-year-old monster movie design for a movie that was never made.
Back in early August, TMNT fan, Myrant reader and artist in his own right tOkKa wrote my old Mirage Studios friend Ryan Brown, asking about one of the many snapping turtle monster designs I’ve posted on Myrant this year.
Ryan recalled, “My memory is sketchy about this but… The proposed film Steve mentions was by my friend Jon Killough (Skinned Alive, 1990; Robot Ninja, 1989; The Dead Next Door, 1989)…”

Ryan continued, “I was asked by Jon to create a mutant leech monster for the never-produced flick and I mentioned to Jon that I might be able to get Steve Bissette to design for the film.”
Ryan indeed got a design sketch or two from me — and it’s the best of ‘em I’ve put on sale here today.
Ryan adds, “Jon had worked on The Dead Next Door (1989) and was proceeding with new film projects with his friend J.R. Bookwalter. In mid-1985 Sam Raimi put up some money for Jon’s 19-year-old friend J.R. Bookwalter to film The Dead Next Door. Bookwalter shot the film in Akron, Ohio during the summer of 1986 with area residents playing zombies. Fangoria wrote about the film in the March, 1987 issue. Jon was involved heavily with this film.”

But Maggot Man was never made, to the best of Ryan’s and my knowledge.
Thanks to tOkKa’s email, though, I got to thinking about that project and just this past Sunday turned up this wormboy. Thanks, tOkKa and Ryan, for reminding me of that which was long forgotten!
Just to be clear, my Maggot Man sketch is what’s for sale here; I’ve included a scan from the photocopy I kept of Ryan’s sketch for historical purposes only (I am not selling Ryan’s artwork, folks).
This uber-rare Maggot Man sketch is huge — the original measures 14″ x 22″, drawn with black pen and marker, some pencil underdrawing is visible; it’s on 2-ply board that is slightly discolored with age around the edges with a very minor 1/4″ tear at the bottom, center. This is vintage work, and goes for $135 plus shipping — first to email me at msbissette@yahoo.com can forever gaze upon this maggot, man.
Per usual, first Myrant price is forever the best price — in a day or two, I’ll be taking this off its Myrant debut slot and moving it to the sketchstore archives and Comic Art Fans Gallery at a higher price.

**2009 sketches and much vintage art can be snapped up 24 hours a day in the Sketch Store section (click this link), which offers a monstrous menagerie of still-for-sale Bissette sketches — Swamp Thing, Godzilla, Tyrant, Constantine, Vermonsters and many published original art rarities — for your pleasure.

***All 2009 sketches, sold and unsold, are archived in the Sketch Gallery, free viewing at all times, enjoy the show. “– SRB

Maggot Man created by Jon Killough and Ryan Brown, 1989; Ryan Brown’s Maggot Man artwork ©1989, 2009 Ryan Brown; my Maggot Man artwork and design ©1989, 2009 Stephen R. Bissette, all rights reserved.

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“Krang, the exiled warlord from Dimension X from the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series is now available over at 4Kids.tv!

Krang will be making his first appearance since the original series in the upcoming Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie “Turtles Forever“!

Grab him here* – and make sure to do it soon as he will cost 4Kids Rewards Points after a week.  Find out how to get 10,000 4Kids Rewards Points free for visiting Cubeecraft after the jump!

*If you cannot see him the the Ninja Turtles section you may have to log into the site.

Go to 4Kids.tv and create an account.  Then go to http://www.4kids.tv/show/tmnt and type the word “technodrome” while on the page.  This will give you 10,000 4Kids Rewards Points FREE!  There is no place to enter the code, simply have the page open in your browser and type.

BONUS! Enter this code on a TUESDAY and get double the points!  That’s 20,000 Reward Points!” —   **Chris B.

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” UGGHHHH .. BURRRRP!!** ..SAKI, It should be noted that Tokka is a miserable mutant and failure .. his intellect makes him inaudible, intolerable and inept and an absolutely worthless addition to the Foot Clan. BLORP !! ~** !! He provides absolutely NO means of downloading anything viable or alternately. He could hardly handle one kilowatt of the Technodrome’s magnificent technological power let alone download a bologna sandwich !!

Uggh , BLAAWWRRRRFFF .. ~~~** disgusting !! !! BRRAAAP – -

–>> He floats like a Butterfly, stings like a bee and fights like a MANIAC !!

Butterfly Swords A.K.A Righty A.K.A. ZAT .. the Turtle’s competitor and ally from the Battle Nexus and one of my favourite Aliens and contenders in the TMNT 2k3 series. He doesn’t say much but his fancy fightin’ style, and dual blade swingin’ action keeps the competition on their feet, and the Triceratons on their toes like the big bad, Bully ballet dancers they are.

K’ here’s the deal.

Zat is lookin for a new home,and what we got here is the perfect opportunity to get rare,some much requested Tokka art !!

**Head on over to the t2z – Tokka ECKS button Order form **

Place your order for a free button .. and if you are the first within the next 48 hours to make a t2z donation of 5 or 10 dollars .. on top of your requested t2z Sketch of your choice, i’ll throw Zat in your order absolutely free !!

I’m offering this thru’ Sunday, Midnight the 13 of September.

If this is a success, i may offer more bonus illustrations in the future.

But let’s start here.

Those that order AFTER Zat is gone, i’ll give them a little sumin extra as compensation.

BUT ONLY thru’ the 13th.. this weekend !! !! !! !!

So take advantage of this before Zat flutters away !! !!

~ t

The 2009 terrible2z.com – “TOKKA – ECKS ” Buttons are goin’ strong still available for order and while supplies last.

Jake Black Limited Edition Benefit T-Shirt – “Scratch Attack!”

THIS IS THE FINAL DAY TO ORDER THIS EXCLUSIVE, LIMITED EDITION SHIRT AND TO SUPPORT AN EXCELLENT CAUSE !!

**Featuring artwork by Fernando Leon Gonzalez and Ryan Brown

-PLEASE CLICK HERE FOR EXCLUSIVE ORDERING INFO VIA THE OFFICIAL TMNT SITE !! !! **

Shirts must be ordered by midnight tonight .. !!

This is your last chance to steal this opportunity to catch SCRATCH on this awesome and unique fashion piece !!

HURRY, Before the Crooked Kitty Crook gets away from you and your TMNT T-shirt collection for good !!

–>> Not that ya haven’t BUT in case you hadn’t seen this yet.. ::

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“Lloyd Goldfine sent me this image a couple of days ago. It’s something he and the crew at 4Kids worked up as a possible poster for the “Turtles Forever” animated special. I think it’s pretty darn cool… and I surely wouldn’t mind one hanging on my wall.”

– **PL

.. guess ya figured the reason i love it by now..

~t

Jake Black Limited Edition Benefit T-Shirt – “Scratch Attack!”

THIS IS THE FINAL WEEK TO ORDER THIS EXCLUSIVE, LIMITED EDITION SHIRT AND TO SUPPORT AN AWESOME CAUSE !!

**Featuring artwork by Fernando Leon Gonzalez and Ryan Brown

-PLEASE CLICK HERE FOR EXCLUSIVE ORDERING INFO VIA THE OFFICIAL TMNT SITE !! !! **

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..i’ll  throw this in, Ryan was awesome enough to cheer me up  with this little beauty over the weekend !! It’s actually very cute   ::

“I’ve been corresponding with a fan named Arseniy Dubakov for a few years now. I think that I’m correct in saying that he is really into the Turtles and even self-publishes his own Turtle comic. This comic, I don’t know if you’d call it a alternate take of the Turts or just a re-imagining of the Turtle universe but it’s a very gritty/sexy world his version of the Mirage characters operate in. His comic is called SaiNW and issue number 3 is due out September 9. Arseniy’s work has been featured here on Boxburning before- he sent me a birthday card that I posted here last February. Very cool stuff.
Arseniy approached me and asked if I wouldn’t mind if he could translate and post issues from my old Paleo series, and naturally this is the cover from the first one. It just looked so cool, and he did such a nice job that I had to give him credit here for all his hard work. The comic (Paleo #1) is on Rapidshare and available for download **here.” — Jim Lawson

*** You can also get some broody visuals and eye candy from Arseniy’s unique take on the Turtle’s twisted “SAME AS IT NEVER WAS UNIVERSE” – here in both Russian and English !! !!