[David C. Matthews]

One of the reasons (but not by any means the only, or even a major reason) why I haven't posted new art to my site is that, for our past few days off, my wife and I have been cleaning out shelves and going through Boxes O' Stuff, deciding what to keep and what to throw away. (Usually, no matter what it is, she wants to toss it, I want to keep it.) And I've made some incredible finds among the papers: artwork I didn't remember drawing until I saw it again!

I found a Tetsuko drawing dated 1989, which throws off my (dimly) remembered timeline for her creation by at least two years. I found sketchbooks full of "Leenah of the Lions" sketches and story notes. (The Tetsuko stuff will be scanned a posted soon; I've culled ten of the better Leenah drawings and placed them in an actual "Leenah of the Lions" Gallery.

But the most interesting drawing is this one.

There's no date on it, but I'm guessing from the girl's almost painful slenderness that it's from 1979, 1980 or thereabouts. If women's bodybuilding had even been started then it was in its very early infancy, when Rachel McLish would've been considered outrageously muscular and the idea that women would ever gain actual mass was almost unheard-of. Nevertheless, the subject of this drawing does raise pretty impressive peaks on her biceps (given the size of her arms), and she is demonstrating stupendous strength.

I remember almost nothing about actually drawing it, but looking at it now I can guess that I was motivated by who-knows-what to finish it it rather more quickly than it deserved. Nonetheless, as a harbinger of what was yet to come from my brain and my pencil, I think some of you at least might find it interesting.

(So far it's an Amaz0ns "exclusive", since I haven't given it its own site link yet; that'll come in a couple of days when the Tetsuko stuff goes up.)

[egad]

Thanks Dave,

I especially enjoyed the Indiana Jones themed pic of Leenah.

[Ashlee]

Its better than Tarzan and the smelly Apes! 😀

It reminds of Tanya the Jungle Queen for LHART.
She really cool.
Is there a nerdy stud mate in her life? 😉

[JimmyDimples]

Very nice vintage on both Leena and our relatively small chain-breaker.

The latter kinda reminds me of the intro to Thundarr the Barbarian.  "But one man breaks his bonds to fight for justice." or something like that.  Wasn't that in its first run when you drew that?

[btx]

MUSCLES on a WOMAN?!!!…. Shocking, shocking… What could they POSSIBLY come up with next a SHE HULK???

You better stop this sort of thing NOW Mr. Matthews! Who knows how big they can possibly get?

BTX

[AlexG]

Talk about timing, a new gallery "Jungle Tails" just opened on AMG-lite, so it seems we now have someone to play Leenah . . .

http://www.andysgalleries.net/JungleTails/Pics/JungleTails0001.jpg

Source: http://www.amg-lite.com/jungle_tails/

By the way, the style of the "Leenah" work reminds me of the Gold Key adventure titles from the 70's such as "Brothers of the Spear".

“I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.”
~ Mark Twain / Samuel Clemens (1907)

[Bane Dorrance]

Talk about timing, a new gallery "Jungle Tails" just opened on AMG-lite, so it seems we now have someone to play Leenah . . .

http://www.andysgalleries.net/JungleTails/Pics/JungleTails0001.jpg

those links are not actually going to anything
try http://jungletails.com/

Also just came across tumbler link for DCM: http://davidcmatthews.tumblr.com/

[AlexG]

Just myself, but what I’d like to see is some REALLY new DCM work
– as in finishing what he started, and has left hanging in limbo for several years now. B)

“Shopping Nightmare! The Klebold Project”

“Tetsuko vs. The Klebold! Who Will Survive?””

“Derek”

“I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.”
~ Mark Twain / Samuel Clemens (1907)

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