Guy Sparger

Here’s a multipanel sketchbook doodle from around 1990. My earliest art influences as a kid in the late 70’s were Heavy Metal Magazine, Ralph Bakshi animation and Frank Frazetta. I was 18 (in 1982) when Pink Floyd’s The Wall (movie) opened in the US. I had never seen British artist Gerald Scarfe’s work but his animated sequences totally blew my mind. I went back to the theater 3 times in the first week. Years later when I sketched this it was just another nihilistic tantrum scrawled in my journal. In hindsight I realize it basically paraphrases The Wall storyline.

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Here’s some early animation that inspired Pink Floyd’s collaboration with Gerald Scarfe:

An excellent (my favorite) animation from The Wall: