Scarlet Street Magazine

During my tenure at Scarlet Street Magazine, I drew dark-humor cartoons for such things as regular column headings and feature articles. Everything here is pen-and-ink. The color art is versions of the magazine illustrations colored for their webpage, using Pantone markers. The concept for most art was written by SS magazine editor Richard Valley. All art copyright John Payne and Scarlet Street.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS

RECORD RACK
(Regular Column Art)

BOOKENDS
(Regular Column Art)

THE CRIMSON CHRONICLES
(Regular Column Art)

THE NEWS HOUND
(Art for coffee mug)

SHERLOCK HOLMES VS JACK THE RIPPER
(Article Illustration)

COLLINWOOD REVISTED
(Article Illustration)

SCARLET O'HORROR
(Publication "mascot")

CIRCUS OF HORRORS
(Article Illustration)

CIRCUS OF HORRORS
(Article Illustration)

CIRCUS OF HORRORS (Deteriorating clowns spread across the foot of two pages)

ATLANTIS: THE LOST CONTINENT
(Article title art)

HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES
(Article Header)

BACKGROUND
(grayed behind text, 2-page spread)

BACKGROUND
(grayed behind text, 2-page spread)

BACKGROUND
(grayed behind text)

COMIC CORNER
(Regular Column Art)

SINGING IN THE RAIN
(Um. With Frankenstein?)

HARDY BOYS
(Article full-page art)

CHARICATURES
(Alfred Hitchcock)

STAR TREK MYSTERY
(Variation on Holmes art above)

HORROR ITALIAN STYLE
(Article title)

SCARLET LETTERS
(Letterhead art)

MUSEUM PIECE
(Article title)

NEWSBITES
(Varying Column Art)

NEXT ISSUE
(Noir, Holmes, invisible Man)

NEXT ISSUE
(Franky, Miss Marple, Tarzan)

PARTY BEECH
(Article Art)

PUBLISHER'S COLUMN
(Regular Column Art)

IT'S MAGIC!
(Pieces Wrap Article)

SIDESHOW
(Richard Valley as the barker)

VAN HELSING
(Making His Point)

I WAS A TEENAGE FRANKENSTEIN
(Article Art)

UNIVERSAL VS. HAMMER
(Article Art)

THE GENUINE DINGUS
(SS T-Shirt Ad)
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