Heavy Metal Monday: #316, "Taarna: The Witness": Montos

 From Heavy Metal #316, "Taarna: The Witness"; story by Helen Mullane, art by Montos.

Heavy Metal #300, "Taarna": Happy Birthday, Butch Guice!

 Happy birthday to artist Jackson "Butch" Guice (born June 27, 1961)! From Heavy Metal #300, "Taarna"; story by David Erwin & Matthew Medney, art by Butch Guice.

Taarna #1: Esau & Isaac Escorza

Reposting from the old Tumblr site: From Taarna #1; story by Alex de Campi, art by Esau & Isaac Escorza.

Heavy Metal Monday: August 1981, "The Making of Heavy Metal": Neal Adams & Mike Ploog

From Heavy Metal August 1981, the feature "The Making of Heavy Metal," an article including a number of behind-the-scenes images from the making of the Heavy Metal animated film. First, some character designs for the "So Beautiful and So Dangerous" segment, drawn by Neal Adams (who was a guest at this past weekend's C2E2 convention):

And some designs and preliminary drawings for the "Taarna" segment, drawn by Mike Ploog.