History of Left Hand Black (LHB)
As a teenager in high school LHB was sort of a running joke, it was going to be my future art studio.
My friends and I would joke about how someday we would all be famous. I picked the name from Danzig's
song "Left Hand Black" the line that inspired me to use this is:
"I can show you God in the palm of
my left hand black"
The symbol in the palm of our logo is The Sign of the Three Rays from the druid belief system.
At the time I was a practicing Druid, now I'm more of a Taoist.
On and off over the last 20 years, I've had both commissioned, and self published work under the LHB logo.
For some reason I am drawn back to this artistic place, the joke that never quit, where this story has been
quietly growing.
The story:
History of Flakes
As a child with a troubled home-life, I would escape into my artwork. Forever developing and re-developing
various characters throughout the years.
The earliest hints of this story appeared in my "Buster Bunny" days.
Ironically a year later Warner Brothers released The Tiny Toons, no connection what-so-ever.
Buster Bunny was a story I wrote in a spiral bond notebook, and the story outline went something like this:
Buster is a crime fighting vigilante hair with twenty-foot ears. He is a cross, if pressed to define,
between Bat Man and Bill the Cat from Bloom County.
His mission is to stop crime no matter the cost.
The story itself, however serious Buster may have though he was, was for all intensive reason a comedy,
think Don Quixote.
The Buster Bunny story was axed, for many reasons after about a year. It might have had some correlation
with the release of TinyToons but who is to say at this point.
As I matured I delved more into the fine arts, getting heavily into airbrushing. With inspiration drawn
from such artists as Larry Elmore, Joe Jusko, Jeff Easley.
Much influence also came from comic strips opposed to comic books, which I got more into later on in life,
although this was highly frowned upon by my family's religion. (See "child with a troubled home life")
Comic book hero's were considered "false Idols. For my art, my reading choices, and other personal reasons,
I was coined the family outcast.
I was supposed to be a doctor and take care of my parents in their old age... well the joke's on them.
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