Taz-Mania comic page 2 (Original)

Artist: Dave King
Medium: Pen & Ink on Board
Size: 16" x 10" (400mm x 250mm)
Date: 1996
Code: KingTaz02

This is the unique original Pen & Ink drawing by Dave King.

An original pen and ink drawing comic page for a Taz-Mania comic strip.

Taz-Mania is an American animated sitcom produced by Warner Bros. Animation from 1991 to 1995, broadcast in the United States on Fox Kids. The show follows the adventures of the Looney Tunes character Taz (the Tasmanian Devil) in the fictional land of Tazmania (based on Tasmania).

Similar to other Warner Bros. cartoons of its time, such as Animaniacs and Tiny Toon Adventures (both of which were created by Taz-Mania co-developer Tom Ruegger), Taz-Mania frequently broke the fourth wall, and often made jokes showing that Taz could actually speak perfectly normally when he wanted to.

Dave King (born 12 February 1964) is an animation director, producer, writer and artist.

He wrote or drew strips including Count Duckula, Rugrats, Barbie, Beetlejuice, The Spice Girls, Scazza for Roy of the Rovers, Taliska's Travels in Time for Cosmic, and Dennis the Menace and Gnasher and Desperate Dan, for The Beano and The Dandy.

King worked extensively with Warner Bros. Worldwide Publishing, scripting and drawing Looney Tunes, Tiny Toon Adventures, Animaniacs, Pinky and the Brain and Taz-Mania, with many of his strips published by DC Comics.

• Artist Biography
  Dave King (born 12 February 1964)
  Dave King is an animation director, producer, writer and artist.
  
  King started in the comic industry, writing and drawing for UK publishers such as London Editions Magazines, Marvel UK (and later for Panini), Fleetway Publications, H. Bauer, and the Scout Association.
  
  He wrote or drew strips including Count Duckula, Rugrats, Barbie, Beetlejuice, The Spice Girls, Scazza for Roy of the Rovers, Taliska's Travels in Time for Cosmic, and Dennis the Menace and Gnasher and Desperate Dan, for The Beano and The Dandy.
  
  King worked extensively with Warner Bros. Worldwide Publishing, scripting and drawing Looney Tunes, Tiny Toon Adventures, Animaniacs, Pinky and the Brain and Taz-Mania, with many of his strips published by DC Comics.
  
  He also wrote and drew newspaper strips including Looney Tunes and Taz-Mania, along with Ren & Stimpy and The Workers.
  
  In the mid-1990s, King began working more in animation, co-art directing a music video for U2, taken from the film Batman Forever, and went on to work with many UK animation companies. In 2002 he directed the VBirds short series for Cartoon Network UK and in 2012 founded the company, Raindog Studios, directing, writing and producing for animation.