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Jason Waltrip · Post by **Jason Waltrip** » Mon Apr 15, 2002 4:01 pm

Hi everyone,
I believe this is my first message here. Just wanted to let you know I'll be dropping in more regularly ( more than once a year to be sure). 'til later.
Gotta go, the library's kicking me out the door.

RebLaw · Post by **RebLaw** » Mon Apr 15, 2002 5:22 pm

hey! it's the artist dude I think!

I'd just like to say, great work

it's cool how the characters are so simple yet detailed!

RebLaw

Meganeguard · Post by **Meganeguard** » Mon Apr 15, 2002 5:38 pm

Welcome to the board

FrustratedPilot · Post by **FrustratedPilot** » Mon Apr 15, 2002 5:58 pm

Hi. I've been following your comics since the days of Robotech II the Sentinels, Metal Bikini, Amazon Gazonga and the Mekton II game illustrations you and John did.

Ray Radlein · Post by **Ray Radlein** » Mon Apr 15, 2002 8:38 pm

On 2002-04-15 18:58, FrustratedPilot wrote:
Hi. I've been following your comics since the days of Robotech II the Sentinels, Metal Bikini, Amazon Gazonga and the Mekton II game illustrations you and John did.

You forgot Bohos!

FrustratedPilot · Post by **FrustratedPilot** » Mon Apr 15, 2002 9:09 pm

That must have been after I was forced to give up "dead tree" comics in 1994. :|

Pennyangelos · Post by **Pennyangelos** » Tue Apr 16, 2002 6:08 am

Hi! I'm afraid I'm not familiar with your work outside of Fans, but inside of Fans you're spectacular! I'm curious, how long does it typically take you to draw a strip?

Tom the Fanboy · Post by **Tom the Fanboy** » Tue Apr 16, 2002 10:29 am

I'm with Penny, I don't know any of your "pre-Fans" works. I;m very curious about such things though.

It'd be really great to at least put some info on my fanpage for you. It is a FANS! page and not just a T Campbell page. Maybe you could help me out with that FPilot?

FrustratedPilot · Post by **FrustratedPilot** » Tue Apr 16, 2002 10:48 am

*Looks over huge pile of old Waltrip dead-tree comics*

Uhh...I think I'm going to have to get back to you on this. I'll scan some sample pages from a select few comics and cross the next bridge when I come to it. Watch this space.

Wish · Post by **Wish** » Tue Apr 16, 2002 6:29 pm

Jason, welcome to the board. I believe that I speak for all of us when I say: WE LOVE YOU!! Or maybe that's just me.

Speaking personally, your style and verve were what first drew me to Faans, and one of the elements that continues to draw me back week after week. Your character designs are clean and your sense of balance keeps even a black and white comic fresh and visually interesting. Thanks for giving me plenty to steal.. err.. I mean.. learn from.

Now that I'm done sucking up... I'll just go stand over here.

-Wish
The People Have Spoken And They Are Morons.

Jarnor23 · Post by **Jarnor23** » Tue Apr 16, 2002 9:00 pm

Glad to see you on the board! Although T's amazing writing keeps me hooked, your equally amazing art brings the whole thing to life and gives it emotion. As much as I have liked a lot of the guest artists, I always find myself waiting for your return to FANS! each time.

Jarnor23

PS Did Jason do the art to the comic books aforementioned, or are those RPGs?

FrustratedPilot · Post by **FrustratedPilot** » Wed Apr 17, 2002 12:46 pm

They most certainly are comics, with the exception of Mekton II, which is an RPG.

Robotech II: The Sentinels, based on the unproduced second season of the Robotech TV series, began its run about 1989 and lasted about 80 issues. Eternity Comics printed it most of its run but when DC took over Eternity, it went on hiatus and was later resumed under the Academy label.
Jason and his brother John, for the most part of the run, alternated the art work between issues: Jason would do one issue and John would do the next, and in the words of the Long twins of Heinlein's Lazurus Long books, "make it march". This began to end when Tom Mason left the writing job for the books and John took over, meaning Jason's portion of the artwork got greater and greater.

Metal Bikini was a short run comic, only six issues long. It had one run at Eternity and was later reprinted by Academy. It was basically a parody of the Japanese OAVs of the time, borrowing a little from MADOX-01 and Megazone 2-3 in its story and from Cream Lemon in its imagery...so to speak. The setting is a Japan that looks more like California, either today or the near future.
The story revolves around a young woman named Kenji who aspires to be a fashion model. Her grandfather designs weapons for an arms manufacturer and his latest creation is an antigravity suit of armor with integral blasters...a technology that threatens to make both jet fighters and tanks functionally obsolete.
A combination of errors (and a scheming General in the Army) force Kenji and the armor suit (stripped of its skin to become literally a Metal Bikini) into action.
A minor character, Yojo (the assistant/test pilot for Kenji's grandpa), is practically an older and more macho Rikk Oberf.

Amazon Gazonga originally appeared in Triple Action, and anthology comic printed by Eternity. Like Metal Bikini it appears to have been reprinted by Academy.
Gazonga is a young warrior maiden from a clan in the pre-Columbian South American jungle. In her tribe, women rule and men are livestock. Her life changes when she falls in love with the boy she captures on her first raiding party.
Like Metal Bikini, Amazon Gazonga is heavy with sexual imagery and slapstick humor.

I tried to scan some pages last night and found that the zip tone that was used made the scans look horrible. Watch this space...

Tom the Fanboy · Post by **Tom the Fanboy** » Wed Apr 17, 2002 5:03 pm

Wow, that was great FP! Keep it coming! I've updated Billberg with your data and credited you appropriately.

Thank you.

FrustratedPilot · Post by **FrustratedPilot** » Wed Apr 17, 2002 5:37 pm

Mekton II is a role-playing game developed by Mike Pondsmith of R.Talsorian Games in the late 1980s. Both John and Jason Waltrip contributed mecha designs and some illustrations in the series; Jason provided the cover to the Roadstriker II module/supplement, as well as several of that book's transforming robot/car mecha (including one that looks suspiciously like Optimus Prime of Transformers).

Mekton II was eventually superseded by Mekton Zeta so the books in the preceding series are out of print and hard to find.

Pennyangelos · Post by **Pennyangelos** » Wed Apr 17, 2002 6:28 pm

Heeey, lookit what I found!

http://waltrips.hypermart.net/Jasonam.html