Monthly Archives: September 2009

New Gods

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Darkseid, Orion and Lightray courtesy of Jay Piscopo.

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Doctor Doom

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Victor Von Doom courtesy of Australian artist Dylan McCrae. Dylan is currently providing colours for the forthcoming trade paperback, Gladstone’s School For World Conquerors. His colour work has also graced the pages of Savage Dragon, Strange Tales and Popgun. You can find more of Dylan’s work over at his blog and the art collective site SatelliteSoda.

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Speedboy

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Speedboy inked and coloured from Jack Kirby pencils by Steven Brower.

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The Thing vs The Hulk

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The Thing and The Hulk in a head to head bout courtesy of Rusty Shackles. Rusty is currently working on The Hard Ones, a new title coming soon from Action Age Comics. He also the regular artist for War Rocket Ajax‘s weekly podcast. Rusty is a bit of a boxing fan and drew inspiration for this piece from an original Ali-Frazer poster which can be found here. For more of Rusty’s work be sure to visit his blog here.

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TorpedoMan

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Chicago based artist Joe Zierman brings a dynamic Kirby flair to this pinup of TorpedoMan from issue #2 of The Undersea Adventures of Capt’n Eli. Joe is perhaps best known for his work with Big Bang Comics, on characters such as The Savage Dragon, Venus, and Teen-Rex, a character which Joe co-created, inspired by Jack Kirby’s work on Kamandi and Devil Dinosaur. More of Joe’s work can be found by visiting Comic Art Fans.

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Against the Brotherhood of Mutants!

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Californian artist Brandon Bird re-imagines The X-Men #4 with a Steven Segal cameo. More of Brandon’s celebrity and pop culture influenced art can be found at his website here. The original cover, by Jack Kirby, can be found here.

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Orion

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New God Orion courtesy of Jay Piscopo.

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Captain America

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Captain America convention sketch by British illustrator Chris Weston. Chris came to prominence in the late 80′s with story Killing Time for stalwart British weekly 2000 A.D. His extensive comic-book credits include Swamp Thing, The Invisibles, The Filth, Ministry of Space and The Twelve. Chris has recently provided concept and storyboard art for the latest Denzil Washington movie: The Book of Eli.

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Captain America

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Captain America convention sketch by Missouri based writer/artist Matt Kindt. Matt is the creator of the graphic novels Pistolwhip, Two Sisters, Super Spy and the forthcoming 3 Story: The Secret History of the Giant Man. You can find more of Matt’s work at his website and blog.

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The Demon

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Etrigan the Demon and alter-ego Jason Blood courtesy of Colorado based cartoonist Evan “Doc” Shaner. You can find more of Evan’s distinctive artwork at his blog and Deviantart page.

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Call Her Crystal

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Marc Basile re-imagines the classic Kirby pin-up from ‘Fantastic Four Special #5′. Marc hails from New Jersey and is a professor at Sussex County Community College where he teaches digital illustration and graphic design.

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Oh RION

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Orion sketch by New Jersey based artist Andre Szymanowicz. Andre is the writer/illustrator/publisher of Groove Junction. His art has also graced the pages of Elephantmen, Popgun and Comic Book Tattoo. More of Andre’s work can be found at his Blog and DeviantArt.

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Doc Savage

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Portland based writer/artist Jay Piscopo poses the question, “What if Jack Kirby had drawn Doc Savage?”. Jay is the creator of the all-ages graphic novel series, The Undersea Adventures of Capt’n Eli. He also presents comics workshops for children, teaching drawing and storytelling techniques in schools and libraries. Find out more here.

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Ant-Man fan comic

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Title page of Chris ‘Elio’ Eliopoulos marvelous Ant-Man fan comic, available in it’s entirety here. Chicago based Chris is currently working on his first book, to be published early 2010. His animation has also appeared on the hit Nick Jr. show Yo Gabba Gabba! More of Chris’s work can be found at his blog and Flickr page.

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The Mighty Chiar

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The Mighty Thor #131 re-imagined by Kevin J. Mulder. Kevin describes himself as a “hobby-level cartoonist… specializing in funny-animal/”furry” art”. This piece is one of several ‘Furry’ cover spoofs which can be found at Kevin’s Gallery via Furaffinity. Original cover, by Jack Kirby and Vince Colletta, can be found here.

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The Demon

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Pop Art Etrigan from Memphis based graphic designer Chris Haley. Chris also provides art to Curt Franklin’s words at their webcomic (“It’s a comic about comics”), Let’s Be Friends Again.

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Phenomenal Tangents

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Phenomenal Tangents is a “celebration of the kinds of stories Kirby wrote in the 70′s” by Steven Stwalley and Danno Klonowski. All twenty-six pages of this one-shot comic are available for your viewing pleasure, along with a commentary on the concepts and evolution of the book, at Danno’s blog Staplegenius.

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Una Aventura Fantastica

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This pulp fiction homage to Kirby comes courtesy of Vancouver based illustrator Josue Menjivar. Josue is the author of the comics Cicada and Broken Fender and the newspaper strips Everyday Things and Way Off Main. You can view more of Josue’s work at his website Fresh Brewed Illustration.

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Kirby’s Angels

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Medusa, Crystal and Big Barda by Terry Beatty.

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New Gods

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New Gods courtesy of Texas based artist Antoine Dennison.

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New Gods #7

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New Gods #7 re-imagined by Josh Burggraf. Original cover, by Jack Kirby and Mike Royer, can be found here.

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Fantasia Fun #49

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Now that Disney have agreed to buy Marvel Comics, will we see a return to more child friendly comics?

A more cynical first draft of this piece here found at my flickr page here. The original cover to Fantastic Four #49, by Jack Kirby and Joe Sinnott, can be found here.

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What-if?

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“What-if Jack stayed at Marvel and decided to introduce his ‘Midnight Men’ there?” poses Australian artist, Shane Foley, in this piece based on a Kirby pin-up. Shane’s work has been published in numerous Australian comics, including ‘Australian War Stories’, ‘The Dark Nebula’ and ‘Krash’. He is also is a frequent contributor to The Jack Kirby Collector magazine. Shane is currently without a website but you can see some of his work at the site of friend and frequent colourist Randy Sargent.

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Star Wars #49

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This re-imaging of the cover to Fantastic Four #49 is by American artist Otis Frampton. Otis is the creator of the ‘Oddly Normal‘ graphic novel series, published by Viper Comics. His other credits include sketch cards sets for Topps and online content for Star Wars.com. You can watch live recordings of Otis colouring this piece here and here.

The original cover, by Jack Kirby and Joe Sinnott, can be found here.

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