The "Ellinger" Arc: Portraits and Bios

"Ellinger" is a FLICKER STREET story arc which I began writing in early 2017. In-story, it spans the years 2010 to 2014, the climactic event being the 2012 "Election Night Massacre". I began a series of character portraits and accompanying bios to tease the project in 2017 also, originally posting them on my Facebook page, 'Henry Covert's FLICKER STREET'. I uploaded 31 character pieces between 2017 and 2021. I will be migrating all of them, as well as all pertinent FS work now on social media, to this site over the coming months. 

Included here are the first six portraits/ bios I posted for the "Ellinger" arc. I started off a bit naively, in both my art - which I had not seriously explored for several years prior to this - and in the accompanying bios, which I began with the most threadbare of information, not overly helpful to those new to Flicker Street. As I added to this portfolio, my art became more realized as I began to eschew the cartooning of my original Convy Lee piece in favor of a combo of portraiture and impressionism. My character synopses grew vastly more detailed as well. I'll be updating and expanding the shorter character bios as time goes by. Actually I added a few things to these that I'm posting today. Thence, these bios on the site contain exclusive material never before released online.

I will post the next five pieces in a few days - or sooner - and so on, until this entire portfolio now permanently resides on this site.

Enjoy, 

Henry

Ellinger 

Pivotal character
Created 2017

Mysterious prime mover of events. Has connections to many characters, to be slowly revealed. His single word name has been linked to a kind of modern Black Power movement that several characters have ties to, but his ultimate motives remain unclear. 

Convy Lee Sutch 

Longtime Pivotal character

Created 1986

Convy Lee Sutch was born in 1962 in the working class town of Augensberg, south of Hallmark, MA. He had dreams of being a rock musician from a very young age, and eventually found a great deal of success with the band Mercyless Dogg, a group that has explored numerous subgenres in its long existence, with Convy Lee being a key singer/ songwriter/ lyricist - and the band's bass player - for most of its duration. 

Convy Lee has had numerous adventures along the way, becoming something of an activist/ advocate/ crusader and crucial agent of the Zed Foundation, after reforming from a brief criminal career. He's been married and widowed, and has three children, one adopted. As "Ellinger" opens, Sutch has decided to leave the Compound installations of Zed and venture back into Hallmark's uptown to reside as a public figure, retiring from Mercyless Dogg indefinitely. He purchases a notorious, now vacant penthouse skyscraper where he lives and also houses some close friends and family members. 

He'll be coaxed into composing some music with new Dogg frontwoman Gersten C for Luca Stenoretti's upcoming horror film BEAUTIFUL DESTROYER. After being resigned to being a loner and rejecting Gersten, Convy Lee unexpectedly becomes involved with married artist Anouk Levage, whose mother Fauve is production designer on Stenoretti's film. His feelings for her will draw him into a whole new era of romance and adventures.

Anouk Levage

Supporting Character

Created 2017

Canadian and part Native American fantasy, horror, and glamour illustrator, Anouk Levage moves to Hallmark MA to marry Josef Grissom, a romeo to the dreamy Anouk that carries a certain darkness in his family lineage. They have a young daughter, Lone, named for Josef's half-sister Lone Fenech, a computer hacker and and martial artist descended from Hallmark's infamous Sebastian family. 

Anouke's mother Fauve Faucette is production designer on Stenoretti's aforementioned film, which will cause her to cross paths more than once with Convy Lee, who she begins to nurture an admiration of. Anouk's past holds several dark secrets, including connections to several longtime key characters. 

Blake Hawkmoor 

Older supporting, now major, character

Created 1986 

Believed dead since 1988, Blake Hawkmoor resurfaces as the head of the Zed Foundation - originally the Bradcroft Foundation - and is involved in many business, creative, and political ventures, many rather paradoxical to others. He Answers directly to Bradcroft heir Clive Dharma, who has inherited the Foundation. 

Blak also owns his own indie record label, Aquarian, which Mercyless Dogg signed to for the release of the album Threshold, released some time after it was actually recorded. Blake was once an aspiring musician, literally in another life, and helps direct Dogg through a new phase in their long career from 2010 to 2012. Blake also invests in Luca Stenoretti's film, BEAUTIFUL DESTROYER, scored by the current Mercyless line-up in association with former member Convy Lee Sutch. 

Blake keeps an ominous secret room in his office under lock and key within his two-story penthouse base of operations at the Zed Foundation skyscraper. Blake seems to answer to an unseen benefactor, someone versed in the magick that has now resurrected Blake from death on two occasions. With all his contradictory activities, Blake Hawkmoor's current [2010-2012] motives remain oblique. 

Reverend Vidal Wynan 

Older major character

Created 1986 

Key member of the band Mercyless Dogg, Produced, wrote lyrics and music, played keys and his amazing electric violin. He was tragically killed in 1995, and died a hero of sorts saving his young disciple Michelito Mourning during the climactic events of the so-called Nihil War. 

Vidal emerges, reborn somehow, in 2010, but initially keeps his return a secret dwelling in the Zed building, until he manages to sneak out and reunite with his old friend and bandmate Convy Lee Sutch. 

Tana Disraeli Thorne

Longtime Major character

Created 1983

Daughter of sorcerer Janos Disraeli and doomed poet/ musician Sophie Pavlincak, Tana is currently staying in a town called Desolation Falls in the Pacific Nortrhwets with her half-sister Kirillian Creed and her own young twins. She believes her husband and father of the twins, Cal Thorne. died in late 2009. 

Tana is very strong-willed and devotes herself to her children as well as Kirillian and Kirillian's soon to be husband, Leo Rosegrave. She is a powerful and formidable woman - having been the result of many TSD [Trans-Somatic Distortions} trials in her youth, but has partially withdrawn into herself of late and carries a great sadness over Cal.

All art, characters, designs, and story elements are Copyright 2022 George Henry Smathers Jr. All rights reserved.