Oct 29, 2026 · 45 min · 11 segments
Today I'm chatting with Dave Swartz about the finale of his creator-owned series, Confederate Monster. Back the campaign at…
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got you got you nice so you said earlier that you would hesitate to call your art splatter art um why the hesitation
Only because, I don't know, I feel like there's a lot of splatter artists per se that are out there.
It's actually funny that we're talking about this because I'm kind of in the midst of feeling like I need some kind of other creative...
For a long time, I've been working on trying to come up with a concept of how I can take my illustrative work and my abstract painting work and kind of like... meld them together somehow.
I've had an opportunity recently to put some of my splatter paint into my actual coloring of a book, which is turning out pretty great.
But I still want to get, I don't know, I still want to get a little more like weird with it i don't know how else to say it like i just i don't know i do a lot of like like i said before like monster designs and like really weird things so you know if i could combine that with my neon you know splatter palette you know i don't know what it would look like but uh it's where i'm i'm headed next just not quite sure yet
And I mean, this may be on the nose, right? But I'm looking at the art for Confederate monsters, right? And I think there's a couple of things about it that I love, right? I think the one being, because they're monsters, there's a sort of license to be even more gory than you might if everyone was depicted as human, right? Because it's like, okay, even cartoonish violence on humans, like...
But, you know, you turn people green and all of a sudden it's like, oh, okay, this is cool.
But I also just love how, I don't know, the coloring, it just almost reminds me of like sort of classic cartoons.
But when I think about like the sort of cartoon cartoons or even like the Nicktoons era, it's almost like a pop art type of feel.
And I feel like even just like cutting out headshots from something like this and then throwing it on those neon, you know, things you do, you're doing like almost like it's kind of like doing it.
Like you would do an animation where you draw the background and then you place the characters on it.
got you got you nice so you said earlier that you would hesitate to call your art splatter art um why the hesitation
Only because, I don't know, I feel like there's a lot of splatter artists per se that are out there.
It's actually funny that we're talking about this because I'm kind of in the midst of feeling like I need some kind of other creative...
For a long time, I've been working on trying to come up with a concept of how I can take my illustrative work and my abstract painting work and kind of like... meld them together somehow.
I've had an opportunity recently to put some of my splatter paint into my actual coloring of a book, which is turning out pretty great.
But I still want to get, I don't know, I still want to get a little more like weird with it i don't know how else to say it like i just i don't know i do a lot of like like i said before like monster designs and like really weird things so you know if i could combine that with my neon you know splatter palette you know i don't know what it would look like but uh it's where i'm i'm headed next just not quite sure yet
And I mean, this may be on the nose, right? But I'm looking at the art for Confederate monsters, right? And I think there's a couple of things about it that I love, right? I think the one being, because they're monsters, there's a sort of license to be even more gory than you might if everyone was depicted as human, right? Because it's like, okay, even cartoonish violence on humans, like...
But, you know, you turn people green and all of a sudden it's like, oh, okay, this is cool.
But I also just love how, I don't know, the coloring, it just almost reminds me of like sort of classic cartoons.
But when I think about like the sort of cartoon cartoons or even like the Nicktoons era, it's almost like a pop art type of feel.
And I feel like even just like cutting out headshots from something like this and then throwing it on those neon, you know, things you do, you're doing like almost like it's kind of like doing it.
Like you would do an animation where you draw the background and then you place the characters on it.
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