Robotech Movie Comic Cover 1

This is the actual cover to Academy Comics' Robotech The Movie Adaption issue 1. It is painted in watercolors. I did this back around 1996.

Robotech The Movie was my first professional penciling and inking job. When I was tapped for the project I thought I was going to adapt Macross The Movie. So I did a lot of research and practiced drawing Macross mecha & characters. But upon receiving a video tape from Academy Comics, I found out it was Megazone 23 and had to redo the process. It was hard to get M23 references at the time so I learned to draw everything from clicking the Pause button on my VCR.

We were also under severe deadlines at the time and everything was rushed. Wasn't the greatest experience in my professional career, but I did learn a lot of different aspects to producing a comic book in the process.

Here is cover to issue 2: [link]