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Friendly Fridays: Val Hochberg’s Hawk & Croc

My friend Val Hochberg, creator of the comic series Mystery, Babylon, does these Patreon Hero postcards for folks who subscribe to her Patreon at the $10/month tier or higher. And…

Retro Andy March 18, 2022

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Hawk & Croc: WTF!?!

Probably from 2004. I don't know why I drew this, but it still makes me giggle.

Retro Andy March 17, 2022

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Hawk & Croc Apocrypha: Battle in the Snow!

I want to say this is from 2004. To practice my action scenes, I swiped the combat scene at the beginning of Eastman & Laird's Leonardo: Teenage Mutant Nina Turtle…

Retro Andy March 16, 2022

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Hawk & Croc Apocrypha: Dorm Daze

After the first year and change of the original Hawk & Croc comics, Brandon and I did a story that showed the characters during their days in High School. That…

Retro Andy March 15, 2022

Pro Wrestling

RIP Scott Hall

I didn't want to break up the Hawk & Croc anniversary celebration posts going on this month, but sometimes real things happen when you're not expecting them. Earlier tonight, we…

Retro Andy March 14, 2022

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Hawk & Croc Apocrypha: Meet the Parents

During the hiatus Brandon and I had taken in 2005, I came up with some ideas for future possible stories. One of them was this tale of how Hawk and…

Retro Andy March 14, 2022

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Hawk & Croc Apocrypha: Fire Raven’s High School Diary

I don't know what I was ever going to do with this, but at some point in 2005, I took a couple of nights to write out the events of…

Retro Andy March 13, 2022

Hawk and Croc Illustration

Dark Raptor

No big behind-the-scenes reveals on this one. I just wanted to practice my lighting effects, and used a quick Dark Raptor drawing to do so.

Retro Andy March 12, 2022

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Hawk & Croc’s Justice League International Tribute

Using the art from the Hawk & Croc wallpapers I made back in 2004, Brandon whipped up this H&C-themed tribute to 1986's Justice League International #1: Brandon will be the…

Retro Andy March 11, 2022

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Hawk & Croc: The Board Game?

Okay, so let's start with this: I never finished this game, and the above graphic was a "it could be something like this" idea. But here's the basic premise: Each…

Retro Andy March 10, 2022

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Hawk & Croc Trading Cards: Bad Guys

The same deal as yesterday's post, but now featuring all the villains from the series. Were I to do this now, after the end of New Hawk & Croc I'd…

Retro Andy March 9, 2022

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Hawk & Croc Trading Cards: Heroes and Allies

In addition to all of my other nerdery, I have a lot of early 1990s Marvel trading cards, and the first series I collected was Marvel Universe Series II from…

Retro Andy March 8, 2022

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Hawk & Croc Present: Spaceman Biff???

Brandon and I thought about making a spin-off comic where Hawk & Croc's buddy, Biff J. Rockenheimen, was abducted from backstage at a wrestling match by a bird-like alien named…

Retro Andy March 7, 2022

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Hawk, Croc and Fire Raven sprites?!

Brandon and I had talked about the possibility of making Hawk & Croc video games for years. At one point, I thought, well, what would these characters look like in…

Retro Andy March 6, 2022

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Dani Nighthawk sketches

After designing Lizzie for Hawk & Croc: Generation 2, we had to come up with something for Dani Nighthawk. I conceptualized her with a non-natural hair color, and kinda knew…

Retro Andy March 5, 2022