SATURDAY FOREVER!

 

These Drag Racing Cartoons are based on actual cars that dominated Dragstrips across the world in the 1970′s to early 1980′s. It pays homage to the most colorful and amazing Funny cars and Dragsters to ever roar down the quarter mile, but with a humorous twist added. If you are a fan of the 70′s, Zingers, Cartoons Magazine, Roach Designs, “Big” Dave Deal’s Wheels just to name a few, or if you’re just an absolute Nitro Addict, then this book is what you have been waiting for!

 

"Starting from a basic sketch of the car with larger tires, blowers, spoilers, headers–basically, I make a caricature of the original car. Then I scan in my drawing and from there I use the original photo to get all of the colors, backgrounds to get the overall vintage feel. From there I digitally paint over the original paint jobs and put in my own names, as well as changing the colors on some cars and adding or subtracting embellishments like flames. The end result is a tribute to the original car if you will. For example the “Madman Money” funny car in the book was based on Kenny Bernstein’s 1979 “Budweiser King” Funny Car. The icing on the cake is the ’70s looking graphic borders, like what you would have seen on T-Shirts, posters, bubble gum cards, and other art from that era. I finish it off with distressing, scratches and textures to really give it that vintage, beat up magazine look and feel".

 

Liam Garritty, creator and artist of Saturday Forever.