Here are two Space Usagi drawings by Geof Darrow and Tom Fowler.


I love Geof's insanely detailed art. He worked on the Matrix movie, and comic series Bourbon Thret, Shaolin Cowboy, Hard Boiled, and Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot. Also, a hell of a nice guy. My strangest Geof Darrow moment was when I was a guest at a con in Cedar Rapids, Iowa and he showed up. I did not recognize him at first, because it just seemed so out of place for him to be there. It turns out he grew up there, and was visiting from France where he was living at the time. He saw I was going to be at the con, and dropped in. We share a love of old samurai movies, and he gave me a bunch of posters for chambara flicks.


Tom would make the trek down from Canada to San Diego every year. The con has gotten so big, though, that we have not had a chance to get together for the last couple of years. He is about the only cartoonist I know that looks comfortable in a suit.