Right: This fetish illustration became a cover for Negative Burn. Below: Illustration for White Wolf’s Ghouls: Fatal Addiction RPG. White Wolf decided to “push the envelope,” and Guy’s work certainly fit the bill. Next Page: Vampires take a train. Okay, it’s a pretty freaking cool train, but after the freedom he had doing illustrations for Ghouls, it must have been difficult to have to go back to drawing the more mundane things they wanted for Vampire: The Masquerade.
MM: That was during White Wolf’s peak, I think. They did the Vampire: The Masquerade roleplaying game and a bunch of spin-offs from that. Were you just doing illustrations for their game manuals? GD: Spot illustrations, some color work, character designs for the character sheets—things like that. I met one of the editors at a convention while I was doing Mystery Theater. It might have been the same convention where
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I met Gary Gianni. I was with Vince Locke, and I said, “We should try doing this stuff on the side. It could be fun.” He said okay, so I got up and went by their table and introduced myself. The editor, Larry Snelly, read comics and knew of Sandman Mystery Theater. He said, “Oh, yeah. If you’re interested in doing some illustration work for us, that would be great.” When I got back from the con, he had called and given me a small project for one of their darker lines, Ghouls: Fatal Addiction. I didn’t know about this ’til later. I had still been doing some fetish illos on the side. He wanted some weird stuff, so I sent him some drawings. He said, “Oh, that’s great. Sure, we’ll push the envelope.” I was like, “It’s not that weird.” But one of the illos I did was this woman in fetish gear with a symbiotic twin sticking out of her stomach. Her ghoul slave was in front of her looking like he was about to go down on her symbiotic 36