By: Jeff Lee with Warren Davis
Another installment from Jeff Lee’s Gottlieb Video Game Secret Archives. 32 pages reproducing original design documents of the ’80s arcade classic Q*bert. This collection features concept sketches, Jeff’s original game proposal, a sample of Warren’s code, grid-paper sprite renditions and other behind-the-scenes peeks of old-school video game creation. Includes commentary from Jeff and Warren.
8.5″ x 11″
Q*Bert and We is an in depth chronicle of the Gottlieb video games such as Q*bert, Mad Planets, and M.A.C.H. III (and many more) and of the crew which created them. With 50 pages of illustrations from the Secret Archives of Jeff Lee, Gottlieb’s original pixelator!
An Advanced Reader’s Edition for mature readers only.
On St. Patrick’s Day, 1879, the Irish-American Henry McCarty aka Henry Antrim aka William H. Bonney aka Kid Antrim aka Billy the Kid met secretly with Governor Lew Wallace (a famed Civil War general) of New Mexico to make a deal regarding his activities during the Lincoln County War. The Kid agreed to submit to token arrest and give testimony in exchange for amnesty. However, the district attorney refused to play along with the arrangement and the Kid slipped jail and resumed his outlaw ways. While governor, Wallace wrote the beloved novel “Ben Hur”. I drew this with Rapidograph, brush and ink and it is one of the series of T-shirts sold at the Billy the Kid Pageant.
A gentleman representing a groundswell of public opinion requested graphics of root vegetables. That is not a subject matter which I have assayed much in the past…but I found several tenuous examples. Here is a piece I did for the Chicago Tribune in 1979. If this looks familiar to followers of this blog, it may be because I based one of the cards in the OD deck from it a few years later.
Yes, another lovely tree from Louisville. You know, I think that is the last time I set foot in Louisville, though I have driven through it since. When visiting my kids’ cousins there we always went to a certain barbeque joint, Mark’s Feed Store on Shelbyville Road, which wasn’t too bad even though I don’t much like barbeque. You got your drinks in a fruit jar, which I suppose was evoke the atmosphere of being in some down-home hayseed roadhouse, which it isn’t at all…being part of chain in a solid middle-class neighborhood.
The wonderful tree! The various species provide shade, homes for critter and human alike…timber for a trillion and one useful or beautiful objects…fruit and nuts, syrups, medicine and spirits…they clean the very air and bind the soil- and all they ask of us in return is carbon dioxide and manure. I salute the tree!
