State College Area Roller Derby is a skater owned and operated women’s flat-track derby league in State College, Pennsylvania. Also known as “S.C.A.R” these women fight other teams for dominance on their home turf skating rink known as Penn Skates in State College, PA.   My friend and super colorist from UGLI STUDIOS PRESENTS #1, Dani Kaulakis,  skates for these uber violent women, who are also nicknamed the “Happy Valley Dolls”.  Dani asked me earlier this year to bring my talents to the S.C.A.R. Table for an event tenatively called “November to Dismember”… and how can I say no to these ladies?  Of course thinking of women and dismemberment, I envsioned Kali- the Hindu Goddess of Time and Change- who is normally found with some classic old time violent imagery… I modified that with some stock photos of the Dolls Logo and Uniforms and came up with our new Super Roller Bitch– “Happy Valley Kali”!.  Much love to my color goddess Dani- I hope you all enjoy this project as I have creating this wonderful bit of old time religious artwork mixed in with S.C.A.R.’s in your face attitude!

Full Size Anatomy Study of 4 armed Roller Goddess- Kali of SCAR…. Ended up not liking the off center with the constraints of the page size and not wanting to lose any of the body above the hips.  This was a good exercise to the final pencil layout.

Thumbnail of Roller Goddess- Kali of SCAR….

Old Time Lithograph of Goddess Kali and the Happy Valley Dolls Logo- a match made in Hell.

The Zombie Apocalypse- yeah, it’s played out now, and getting really old and cliched- fast.  But some of my close friends at the Vandalettes of Vero Beach Womens Flat Track Roller Derby Team really really wanted me to make a poster- with you guessed it- the Zombie Apocalypse.  “Cute Girl Fighting Zombies” they said.  Ok, so I tricked it out with some nods to  1985’s “Day of the Dead” some 80’s pop culture imagery (I’m having visions of “Big Trouble in Little China” and “Blade Runner”) by throwing in the Rising Sun in the background- for no good reason.  Then I decided to make this go totally Japanese Exploitation/ KILL BILL by adding the big Kanji Symbol for “Samurai” in the background and giving the roller girl a katana- for no good reason.  I’m sensing we will color this with pastels and neon to trick it out like it’s all from 1985 or walking off the set of “Miami Vice” like it’s Friday Night on NBC in 1984- for no good reason.  All that being said, this layout for a poster just pops to the eyes, and yes I’m pimping myself that hard in this post.   I really worked to get the anatomy and pose just right down to the pom poms on the socks to really make our Caucasian Samurai Girl fighting Zombies look as real and dynamic as it comes (sketch studies included), with all apologies to Beatrix Kiddo…. And this is my pop culture kitsch piece of 2012 via the 80’s… I give you….”Not Another Zombie Apocalypse!”