Sam & Max

The first Sam & Max comic appeared in print 25 years ago. A few more followed, then some LucasArts strips, an Adventure Game, Trade Paperback, a Network Animated Series, a couple of unrealized games >snif<  but then...
Telltale Games jumped in. They were able to actually achieve something others couldn't, creating downloadable games on a schedule. Sam & Max were one of Telltale's early licenses. The series would be like a TV show, a few hours of gameplay for each...

Here's the comp art for one of my old t-shirts. It was printed on a black shirt and was a very limited run.
Why's that you ask?
Well, my local shirt vendor (who I have never used again and had nothing to do with previous and subsequent Sam & Max shirts which were implemented in a entirely professional fashion) made the whole process more difficulty than you would think necessary...

I did this ink and marker image to help promote the Sam & Max animated show for Fox Kids in the 90's.
Since the network frowned upon the use of actual pistols in the series I tried to think of a solution that was creepy or weird enough to replace the guns, hence the Rat Gat, a gatling gun designed to fire living vermin....

The Lucasfilm adventure game Sam & Max Hit the Road was first released in 1993.
Here are a few of the rough sketches I scratched around with in search of the properly lively final "driving and antic-ing" concept for the box cover. The Highway Surfing version (above) eventually became the cover of the Sam & Max comics collection...