Anyway, skip ahead about five years, and as I'm working on stuff for Star Trek and Star Wars fanzines, I was asked by one editor (Anne Zeek, I think) to come up with an original idea, as she was expanding what she wanted to publish. I returned to Hazardman and revamped the concept as "H is for Hazard". The character was much the same--a human raised by aliens and returned to Earth as their agent. He operates in disguise, under the name Hazard, and in pretty much the same outfit I drew him as when he was a comic-book superhero. I added to the regular cast his girlfriend, Caroline, who knew his secret.
I needed models for those characters in illustrating the stories, and I chose Parker Stevenson (The Hardy Boys) for Sheridan/Hazard and Valerie Bertinelli (One Day at a Time) as Caroline (admittedly, she was something of a crush of mine at the time). Again, that art is long disappeared, but here's a recreation of it:
A side note: Chris Sheridan's name comes from a subway stop on the Number 1 line in New York: Christopher Street/Sheridan Square.
No comments:
Post a Comment