Big Shout Magazine Cartoon Issue

(October 1995, Big Shout Magazine)
For our February 1995 issue, staff artist Kurt Brugel suggested a cartoon takeover of sorts. He recommended a fully-illustrated issue, meaning there would be no photos or photo-real artwork. Any photos that were shot were actually illustrated by our staff artist Steve Cobb. And throughout the issue, Brugel suggested we have a little impish cartoon character that would run amok and try to destroy the ads and other content in the issue. Pretty crazy, right?
The cover was a collaboration of Brugel and Cobb. The concept was Brugel’s, as was his gremlin-like character that rampaged through the pages of the magazine. Artist Chris Jenkins created a second character called Big Shout Head who was a super hero summoned to stop the gremlin character. Veteran artist Tom Watkins also weighed in with some of his own artwork.
Here is how it played out in the issue…



Within seconds of him drawing his first few breaths on the material plane, the evil Gremlin submerges into the finished pages of the publication and begins to wreak havoc. Thinking quickly, the editor summons his four best artists to pool their collective energies in an effort to create a force to battle the Gremlin. Bursting from the synchronized mental energy of these four men comes an awesome force… Big Shout Head. It springs into action and soon gives chase…


