Ever seen a textless version of the #spaceghostcoasttocoast musical bar-b-q cover art? Of course you haven’t! This is a color xerox that was given to me by the artist who painted it, the late and great #cmartincroker .He was always giving me cool stuff and I just wish I had asked him to sign even a fraction of ‘em. For this he painted the background and went so far as to hand paint the characters on acetate, inks on the front and painted fill shapes on the back. So damn cool! And guess what? I had a hand in making some of the art. One of the nights where I went to his house he asked me to work on the back cover art. I roughed out this pose of a very stuffed #brak and also the overturned furniture. As I recall he dug it and the pose remained largely intact after his cleanup. That was the form of high praise at Big Deal Cartoons. That and him saying “…I don’t hate it…” One thing that always bugged me about this original were the two terrible tangents of the spatula lining up with the fence and the apex of the distant house looking like a hat that Brak is wearing. Glad it got resized for the final art. I guess I’ll never know who made that change. Enjoy! #spaceghost #zorak #adultswim #cartoonnetwork #matthewijenkins