on lizard island
Title Cards by Souther Salazar
These are the cards that Souther made. They turned out awesome and I’m still pretty excited that he was willing to do them. Souther often describes intricate tiny universes in his paintings and sculptures. Even in his post-it drawings. For the cards I knew I didn’t want artwork that directly reiterated the designs of “Samsquatch”. Instead, they would serve as an introduction to Sam and his wondrous and mundane world. Originally, I envisioned sweeping tableaus of humans encountering fantastical animals and diagrams of unlikely taxonomies.
However, as these images appear over the course of 10 seconds, that might have been overreaching. To that end, he conceived of these views of a fortean library with the main characters represented as figurines arranged on canted bookshelves among other cryptids. The Dover Demon. Kongamato. See if you can name a few others.


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On April 12th, 2007 at 12:00 am
these are great. I love the Samsquatch title with all the little trees on them. very playful.
On April 14th, 2007 at 12:00 am
awww man. those are so amazing. damnit. everything about adam’s cartoon is great! really great! so great it pisses me off! damn. damn.. awesome .. .. damnit.. damn crap.
On April 20th, 2007 at 12:00 am
seriously. this isn’t one of those froo froo “this is awesome!” comments. Those title cards are .. .. so.. damn.. pretty and perfect. Adam you’re a jerk.
On April 20th, 2007 at 12:00 am
I acknowledge and celebrate that you are not being froufrou. Thanks for your backhanded comments. And, yes, these cards have made me a huge self-satisfied jerk.