Alice Hoffman

This is a very old (circa 2001) piece of fanart I did for Jason Thompson's The Stiff. Jason worked as an editor for Viz comics in San Francisco for many years and last year quit his job and is now writing a book for Del Rey Publishing. My artwork does not do Jasons artwork any justice at all, so I implore you to see Jasons work for yourself at www.sonic.net/~jason

I told him I'd pimp his comic if he'd let me post this old pic in my FAC gallery.

The pic - Alice Hoffman is a leading character from The Stiff. I drew this when I first started working for Amtrak. I know there are gobs of errors - Alice's hands are tiny, her feet are a smigeon too small, the electric cart is small, her head is too round... I could go on and on, but why take all the fun out of finding the errors for yourself?

The locomotive is indeed a General Motors pf59 commonly used on the United State's west coast including Amtraks Capitol Corridor, Cascades, and Pacific Surfliners, as well as the San Diego Northern Railways COASTER trains. Probably many other railroads use use the same type of locomotive too, I'm just too lazy to look them up and write them down here.

Amtrak does not run a "Silicon Chief" but I thought it'd be a cool train name.