Author Archives: Jason

Big Barda!

Posted on May 22, 2012 by Jason

The Amazonian Apokoliptian herself, courtesy of Dan McDaid.

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Doom

Posted on May 21, 2012 by Jason

Doctor Doom by Mississauga, Ontario based Andrew Phan. 18 year old Andrew adds in his email, “Attached is a piece I did for myself, drawn, scanned then digitally colored. I’m still learning and hopefully my art will be seen around the world”.

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Black Bolt

Posted on April 24, 2012 by Jason

Black Bolt, inked from original Kirby pencils by Doug Hazlewood. Since winning the inking category of the original Official Marvel Try-out Contest in 1986, Doug has provided inks for numerous comic books including: Animal Man, The Flash, Birds of Prey, Doom Patrol and Teen Titans. You can find more of Doug’s work at his website and ComicArtFans gallery.

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Avenger

Posted on April 23, 2012 by Jason

Cap, on a bike – just for fun, courtesy of Jay Piscopo.

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Thing

Posted on April 10, 2012 by Jason

The ever lovin’ blue-eyed Thing, courtesy of Robert Ball.

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Bad Guys

Posted on April 5, 2012 by Jason

A couple of Kirby bad guys courtesy of Chicago based illustrator and designer Tom Kelly. You can find more of Tom’s work at DeviantArt and daportfolio and his latest web/app comic Sword of the Savage Samurai is available through Graphicly.

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Thing Collage Returns

Posted on April 4, 2012 by Jason

Way back in January Kirby-Vision featured Loston Wallace‘s black and white commision piece, Thing Collage. Loston has now very kindly forwarded two very different colour treatments of the piece which we present for your viewing pleasue. Below you will find Matt Webb‘s rendition which utilises the sort of colour palette widely used on 1960s comic covers. This is followed by Steve Downer who brings his impressive digital skills to the artwork. Great jobs by both artists we’re sure you’ll agree.

Matt Webb

Steve Downer

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Arnim Zola

Posted on April 2, 2012 by Jason

“Eh-oh!”, it’s Nazi Teletubbie Armin Zola, courtesy of Derek Langille. Derek is an illustrator and designer based in Calgary, Canada and you can find more of his work at his website, blog and Flickr photostream.

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Kirby Sketchcards

Posted on March 19, 2012 by Jason

Just a small selection of the Kirby character sketchcards that New York based artist Cory Smith has been posting over at his Twitpic gallery. Cory took up a daily sketch challenge in June of last year and has notched up an impressive 168 cards so far. The full gallery, as it stands, can be found here and you can find more of cory’s work at his blog and DeviantArt page.

A big Kirby-Vision thanks goes out to Travis Ellisor for the link to Cory’s Gallery.

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X-Men Pin-Ups

Posted on March 8, 2012 by Jason

Kirby-Vision regular Marc Basile pays tribute to Lee/Kirby era X-Men with these marvellous (there really is no other word for them) Pin-Up Pages.

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More Fun!

Posted on March 7, 2012 by Jason

More Kirby derived humour from Pete Von Sholly.

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Surfer Ornament

Posted on March 6, 2012 by Jason

“Something fun” from the pen of Pete Von Sholly.

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March MODOK Madness

Posted on March 4, 2012 by Jason

It’s that time of year again when Brendan Tobin and Pedro Delgaro unleash their monstrous celebration of one of Jack’s most bizarre creations, March MODOK Madness. The collaborative art blog is now in it’s fifth year and boasts over 500 unique interpretations of the Mobile Organism Designed Only for Killing from an international roster of artists. If your preference in villains is balloon headed cyber-enhanced psychopaths then make sure that March MODOK Madness is part of your 5-a-day.

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Captain America

Posted on March 1, 2012 by Jason

A glorious Captain America in watercolour courtesy of Ron Salas.

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Orion

Posted on February 29, 2012 by Jason

A moody take on the son of Darkseid courtesy of Grey Williamson. Grey is an artist/writer/sculptor/designer and founder of the design team Carbon-Fibre Media. You can also find more of his artwork at his DeviantArt page.

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Gallery of Heroes

Posted on February 28, 2012 by Jason

Many thanks to Kirby-Vision regular Jay Piscopo for this latest collection of Kirby inspired artwork.

 

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Kirby Style

Posted on February 27, 2012 by Jason

A stylistic take on Jack’s X-men characters courtesy of San Francisco based illustrator Kevin Wada. Kevin’s work “tends to range from mainly editorial to character/fashion…” and you can see more of his gorgeous artwork at his website, blog and DeviantArt page.

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Black and White

Posted on February 22, 2012 by Jason

Today we bring you a magnificent black & white gallery from East Texas based artist
Jun Bob Kim. Jun Bob is a freelance illustrator who’s first published comic work was an adaption of John Bunyan’s The Holy War for his university newspaper. More recently he has been providing the art for Cipher: The Sorceror Pope for Atomic Tiki Studio. for more of Jun Bob’s work be sure to visit his website – here.

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Galactus

Posted on February 21, 2012 by Jason

The Devourer of Worlds courtesy of Pittsburgh based artist, Dave Wachter. Dave is the artist, co-creator and co-writer of the Eisner nominated webcomic, The Guns of Shadow Valley. His artwork ha appeared in various antholgies as well as Tell Them Johnny Wadd is Here for Terminal press and Robert Bloch’s That Hellbound Train for IDW. You can find more of Dave’s work at his blog – here.

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Magneto

Posted on February 15, 2012 by Jason

A unique take on Magneto from the brush of Jeremy Sorese. Jeremy is a commercial illustrator/typographer and creator of the webcomic In the Parlor Room. You can find more of his work at his blog and flickr account.

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Captain America

Posted on February 14, 2012 by Jason

This lovely piece, rendered in graphite with digital colour, comes courtesy of New York based artist, Sam Wolfe Connelly. Sam has exhibited extensively and has forged a career in magazine and book cover illustration. You can find more of his work at his website
and blog.

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Kirby versus

Posted on February 13, 2012 by Jason

A huge Kirby-Vision thanks to Travis Ellisor for sharing two recent commisions from his ever-growing Comicartfans gallery.

Silver Surfer vs. Silver Star by Andy Khun.

Kirby OMAC vs. Giffen OMAC by Derec Donovan.

 

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Barda, Jean & Max

Posted on February 6, 2012 by Jason

A big Kirby-Vision welcome to San Francisco based artist, Arvin Bautista. Arvin has a background in video game design but has recently moved into comic book illustration with the creator owned, The Bomb Squad.
You can find more of Arvin artwork at his blog – here.

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Hero, Number One

Posted on January 24, 2012 by Jason

Mario Zuccarello pays homage to “the creative genius who has built a large part of American comics, my hero number one, Jack Kirby”.

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OMAC

Posted on January 23, 2012 by Jason

Many thanks to Elliot Fernandez for this portrait of the DC New 52 version of Buddy Blank’s alter-ego, OMAC.

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