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This was created for use on the staff badge issued to me for Further Confusion 2006, alongside a photo. Unfortunately, for whatever reason, it didn't appear there.
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The mediocre sound quality of a low-budget television advertisement for a local Honda automobile dealer inspired this very bad pun.
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A couple of the Lab Mice (without their body armor) respond to a surprise attack, carrying their CPAW “lightning guns”. The weapon design is based rather more closely than intended on the FN P90.
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Role-playing Aida as part of an on-line MUCK was hugely entertaining, and it was a terrible disappointment when the MUCK collapsed before her storyline was resolved. This scene is set a little later, when the plot would have come to fruition. The Le'enle and individual examples thereof created by M. C. A. Hogarth and used with permission.
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Grey and Sabriel were the principles in a meandering romantic subplot that, unfortunately, was just getting up a head of steam when the on-line MUCK collapsed. Before it did, though, discussions with Sabriel’s player touched on the possibility of Grey losing an eye and being thrown from his horse in battle, with Sabriel coming to his rescue. Of course, in the end, they would marry and live happily ever after. Sabriel used with permission of her creator.
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“Berries?” was done as a doodle at work. Icara thinks berries of all kinds are goodness. “Thank You, Alpha Mummie!” was the first piece drawn in a sketchbook given as a Christmas gift, expressing appreciation to the giver, Maggie Hogarth. It refers to her nickname of “Alpha Mother” to the group of friends known as the “Tampa Pack”. At the time, Icara was suffering from the “muse flu”—hence the vitamin C tablet hidden in the strawberries.
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Ross was a secondary character on a role-playing MUCK, created on the spot for a scene requiring a page. To tease one of the other players, Maggie Hogarth, he was designed specifically to be painfully cute—as were these sketches and his punnish name. The high-angle sketch recalls a moment when the small kitten looked way up at Maggie’s very tall character. Daelin created by Mike Fannin and used with permission.
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Kestrel Peryton Solstice, daughter of Peregrine Peryton and Cleopatra Sphynx of Fourth World, sings to the Le’enle Empress of the East, Distant Song. Distant Song created by M. C. A. Hogarth and Fourth World created by Charlie Luce Jr.; used with permission.
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Trying to match the creator’s vision of the character’s appearance resulted in this series of sketches. Fourth World and Cleopatra Sphynx created by Charlie Luce Jr. and used with permission.
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To sleep, perchance to dream . . . of the women who have been near and dear to the heart. Each of them demanded a copy—which I intended all along to supply, of course!
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Walther Brass was the Duster, a pulp-era mystery-man hero who retired after the Second World War, when the world no longer had room for men like him. Decades later, still fit and hearty and looking only half his age, he returned to teach a new generation of superheroes the ropes.
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Members of and support personnel for an élite antiterrorist powered-armor team, designed for a science-fiction pen-and-paper role-playing game. Characters used with permission of their creators.
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Caroline was a private joke shared with my girlfriend of the time, who had adopted a snow-leopard persona. What would happen if you crossed a snow leopard with a Bombay tomcat? You’d get a negative snow leopard, of course—a black cat with white rosettes!
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This was a response to Zjonni’s comment that many artists in the “furry” community at the time seemed interested only in drawing their own characters and not in trading depictions of other people’s characters. Katya Kostchyevkova created by Zjonni and used with permission.
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These montages show pivotal moments in the characters’ lives, though the scene showing the three of them together didn’t actually happen. The central figure of “Crystaal’s Life” was intended as a possible T-shirt design. Characters created by Chris Grant and used with permission.
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Allaina is shown with mechanical arms, a plot element dropped in favor of regeneration therapy to repair injuries sustained during damage control after her light attack spacecraft suffers battle damage. During her recovery, she discovers Allain is her father. Characters created by Chris Grant and used with permission.
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A patrol cop argues with a hunter uncomfortably near the boundary of a ranch, somewhere on the colony world of Unity. This was “envelope art”, drawn before the Web existed, back when artists traded photocopies through the mails.
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This was a holiday card design showing a group of friends on the colony world of Avalon, camping out in a deserted cove. Nearly all of Avalon’s inhabitants are bioengineered life forms or are descended from such.
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One of the more vivid characters created for this milieu, Lacan is an embittered ex-mercenary bioengineered as part of a pilot project intended to produce soldiers and other useful types. The concept was, of course, quite impractical—but corporations don’t always make rational decisions. Character created by Wayne Shaw and used with permission.
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A rural cop stationed somewhere in the outback on the colony world of Hatikvah is shown with her patrol vehicle—a tiltrotor. This was “envelope art”, drawn before the Web existed, back when artists traded photocopies through the mails.
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The ambassador of Hatikvah argues her case to the king of Avalon, trying to persuade him to intervene in the Colonial War on behalf of her embattled world. She is accompanied by her military attaché and the captain of the courier vessel who brought news of the invasion.
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From a short-lived pen-and-paper role-playing game set just after most of the world’s population vaporized. (This was one of the inspirations for “Tunguska Variations”.) The players played themselves as characters, and for some reason they decided to track down my character.
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Playing around with characters and story ideas in the Star Trek universe seems to be almost inevitable at some point in a science-fiction fan’s career, and I was no exception. However, in a departure from the abundance of “galaxy-famous” fan characters, I decided to concentrate on an ordinary officer with a reasonably distinguished but relatively quiet career, ending as a commodore behind a desk somewhere in San Francisco. Star Trek is the intellectual property of Paramount Studios.
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This deliberately androgynous character was bioengineered to be the perfect blank canvas for disguises, with pale, colorless hair, skin, and eyes and a nondescript build. Originally intended to be an intelligence agent, “Spook” was instead pressed into service as a mecha pilot. Though initially nonfunctional, Shin was, while briefly a prisoner of the enemy, reengineered to be able to function as male or female at will.
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