The Once and Future King

 
 
 

A commission to illustrate a poster for an episodic pilot.

About 10 years ago I tracked down one of my first storyboarding mentors William H. Frake. ( I could write a book on him, and will write a little more later) On this project I invitied him to collaborate. to basically art direct me as I worked out all the pieces of this Image.

The writer/showrunner Keith Kopnicki, put together a beautiful deck and a pretty mouthwatering pitch for what he was looking for as a cover image….

 
 
My thoughts are this image can live very much in the style of your Ninjatune (very Bakshi!), offerings, wave, dharma stuff. And there is some other stuff in your portfolio favs that stands out too.

OK... very briefly.... middle class home, suburb, backyard, halloween time, leaves falling/fallen, overcast... an empty uncovered in ground swimming pool. In the pool, perhaps nearly filling it is a sleeping dragon, curled up. Sitting on the diving board lighting a bong is Ross. Sitting in a lounge chair (?) is our hero Sean reading/holding/looking up at the sky (?) a paperback copy of The Once and Future King (cover details not important?), and sitting with legs dangling over edge of pool is Katie (dressed up as an elf for halloween?) studying her phone.