I went to my hometown recently for my mom's and sister's birthdays, and found these Uniball pen drawings from middle school under my old bed.

"War is Hell"(1985)

Holy Moly! A heavy-metal-hair skeleton machine-gunner. Wow. This is from 6th grade in a Catholic school, when I started getting seriously into Iron Maiden, Ozzy, Black Sabbath, Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, and Anthrax. This sucker's LAMINATED, even.
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This one's short and sweet.
"BURN"(1986):


The inside cover of my 1987 school notebook contained this gem:

The lightning BEHIND the moon is especially awesome. Look at all those bloody skeletons! Somehow, this made me remember Sister Barbara's music class, where we'd have to sing "Were You There When They Nailed Him to the Tree?" and other fun Catholic hits, alongside "The Rose" and "I'm On Top of the World". Once she let us bring in cassette tapes to play for the class, and I made everyone listen to Metallica's "Battery". Amazingly, she listened to the whole song instead of shutting it off once the accoustic guitar intro turned into the fast main riff. Her only comment was "It has a fast beat."

Cover for an 8th grade book report in 1987(I got an A+++, seriously!):


And finally, this insane 1987 heavy metal skeleton warlord guy on 12" x 18" sketch paper. I laughed my head off seeing this again 21 years later (crap, I'm old), but I was totally sincere when I drew this:


Black flag with Grim Reaper cut-out:


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