Here's my visual reference:
All the 1970s - 80s Dope Riders, along with other of my comics, are in my anthology Awaiting the Collapse. The comics I've done from 2015 through 2020 are in my new anthology, A Fistful of Delirium. Both are available at www.paulkirchner.com. If you'd like to purchase Dope Rider merchandise, visit my Dope Rider Store at CafePress.com. I think I finally got the link straightened out. Your patronage is most appreciated!
I was impressed by this drawing of a skull done on a pocket-sized Etch-A-Sketch. The artist is Jan Labowitch, 24, who must be one of the world's greatest Etch-A-Sketch masters. Here work sells for hundreds of dollars. Whatever you do, don't shake it! There's an article about her here.
I recently went through a phase of watching a lot of noir films from the 1940s and early 1950s: "Out of the Past," "Asphalt Jungle, "Double Indemnity," "Strangers on a Train," "The Killers," and one so weird I liked it best, "Detour." I really wanted to do a noir Dope Rider but it took awhile to work out the logic. (Some people say there's no logic to Dope Rider, but they're liars, I tell you, liars!)