Category: Art

If you’re a fan of fanzines, then you’ve got to check out Ken Meyer, Jr.’s monthly column Ink Stains.  Each month Ken (who is an amazing artist) posts… well, let’s let Ken explain…

I have a collection of over 200 fanzines from the 60’s-80’s that I plan to scan and talk about, one at a time. I hope to have some of the participants answer a few questions. Many of those participants are established comics professionals now, while some have gone on to other things. I will show a few snippets from each zine and give you a link to download a pdf of the whole thing, which I hope all of you will do!

For Ink Stains 5, Ken took a look at CPL #12 from 1975 published by Robert Layton (who later went on to fame as comic book artist, writer and publisher) and edited by Roger Stern (who became a popular comic book writer).

CPL #12 features a beautiful [NSFW] cover by Paul Gulacy, a front piece by Syd Shores, an interview and art from Mike Vosburg, full page pieces from John Byrne and Dennis Fujitake, a humorous centerspread by Herb Trimpe of the Hulk, Steven Grant [who also went on to fame as a writer] comic reviews, a profile of Darkseid by John Byrne and more.

This is the first fanzine that Ken profiled that I actually owned.  Ah, the memories of the glory days of fanzines.  Thanks to Ken Meyer, Jr. for making these available!

Michael Golden has four Dr. Strange pieces of art showcased at The Bristol Board… and there’s not a good one in the bunch… they’re all great!

John Byrne probably isn’t one of the first names that comes to mind when you hear the words: Conan artist.  But John Byrne created the piece above which appeared in The Savage Sword of Conan #9.

I’d have never seen it had it not been for the fine folks at Diversions of the Groovy Kind and their post of three John Byrne drawings from Savage Sword of Conan.

Diversions of the Groovy Kind is a regular stop on my daily website visits.  This time out they’re featuring a Tony DeZuniga Conan portfolio that originally appeared in The Savage Sword of Conan #56 from July, 1980!

Michael Edward Taylor and ScreenRant present The 15 Most Groundbreaking Covers of All Time.

There are some excellent choices in there — Steranko’s Nick Fury [of course], the Iron Man alcohol cover, Neal Adams’ Green Lantern/Green Arrow drug abuse cover, even Shatter Special #1 with the first comic cover entirely created digitally.  Limiting the choices to just 15 makes it tough… otherwise we might have seen…

• At least one cover from the Byrne/Austin X-Men run
• some love for a Marshall Rogers’ Batman cover
• a Chaykin American Flag cover
• a Master of Kung Fu cover by Paul Gulacy
• a Zeck cover for The Punisher
• one of the Dark Knight Returns covers by Miller
• a Sin City cover by Miller
• any cover by Darwyn Cooke
• any cover by Michael Golden
• and so many more…

Here’s a nice little interview with Elliot Fernandez conducted by Rich Johnston for Bleeding Cool.

Today we have a Steranko Captain America drawing from 1984.

Source: The Bristol Board.

Today we have a very cool Star Lord piece by Chris Stephens.  You can see a bigger version at Bleeding Cool!