Category: Art

Dick Giordano’s Demolition Man #6

Dick Giordano, the comics legend is back! During his fifty plus years in the biz he’s done everything from ink all the greats (including himself) to serve as Editor-in-Chief of DC Comics, to co-founding his own comic company.

I had the good fortune to pick up six model sheet headsketches of Sly that Mr. Giodano did before starting work on DC Comics adaptation of “Demolition Man”. This is the sixth. To see all of the other headsketches, click here.

Hang the Batman

I’ve always liked this drawing of Batman.  It was pencilled by Mike Nasser [aka Mike Netzer] and inked by Joe Rubinstein with colors by Cory Adams.  The art appeared as a panel in a comic story written by David V. Reed called “Hang the Batman” which was part of Batman Spectacular, Summer 1978.

As a kid, I loved those big comic anthologies.  You always got more bang for your buck!  The Batman Spectacular, Summer 1978 also featured a Marshall Rogers cover; “I Now Pronounce You Batman and Wife” comic story written by Denny O’Neil with art by Michael Golden, and a prose story by Denny O’Neil called “Death Strikes at Midnight and Three” with spot illustrations by Marshall Rogers.

At any rate, I’ve always liked this drawing of Batman.  I hope you do as well.

Dave’s New Deal: Everyone is a Winner

Less than a week ago, I wrote about a neat idea that Dave Wachter had to encourage folks to make a donation to aid the people of Haiti.  Dave was doing a raffle for free drawings to anyone who donated to Doctors Without Borders to aide earthquake victims in Haiti.  Several people took Dave up on his offer and some of the raffle winners’ art has started to show up on his blog.

Today Haiti was hit with another devastating earthquake.  They’re going to need help more than ever so Dave decided to make a new offer to those considering a donation to help the Haiti relief effort:

NEW DEAL: No more raffle, everyone gets a sketch

That’s right EVERYONE who makes a donation to Doctors Without Borders and sends a copy of the receipt to Dave will get a FREE SKETCH CARD.  Click HERE to read Dave’s post.

It’s a cliche that the worst times bring out the best in people.  It’s also true.  If you can spare a few bucks or more, why not send some to help the folks in Haiti?   You’ll feel good and get a great drawing for your troubles.  And if you believe in karma, you’ll earn some points… you know Dave should surely have some good mojo heading his way!

Wachter’s Charity – Drawings for Drawings

If you’re considering a donation to aid the people of Haiti, then you might want to check out Dave Wachter’s blogDave is doing a raffle for anyone who donates to the Doctors Without Borders in aide of earthquake victims in Haiti charity.  That’s right, Dave’s doing drawings for folks to win drawings.  There are a few simple rules which you can read here.

I’ve always thought of Dave Wachter as an excellent artist.  It’s even nicer to know that he’s an excellent human being.

Gulacy and The Kid

It’s no secret that back in the day Paul Gulacy was my favorite artist.  Although Paul is best known for his work on the classic Master of Kung Fu series, it’s not the only thing of note that he did.  I thought today it would be cool to look at my second favorite, non-MOKF cover that Paul did.  It’s for Rawhide Kid #147 which came out in September of 1978.  Hope ya dig it.

Perhaps tomorrow we’ll check out my favorite non-MOKF cover by Paul.  What do you think?  Good idea?

Treece’s “Machine Gun” Joe

This week we have Jeremy Treece’s take on Sly as “Machine Gun” Joe from “Death Race 2000”. This sketchcard was gifted to me by a StalloneZone fan [LittleJohn312] and arrived in my mail unannounced. I really like what Jeremy did and hope to get more work from him in the future.  You can also see more of his art here.

Thanks to LittleJohn312 and Jeremy for a great surprise!

Gangsters, Vampires and Aliens

CBR.com recently posted the cover above and took a look at a new series from Image by Jonathon Ross [writer] and Tommy Lee Edwards [artist].  It’s called “Turf” and is set in New York in 1929“Turf” features a war between gangsters, vampires and aliens.  Yep, gangsters, vampires and aliensI was pretty much sold when I learned Tommy Lee Edwards was doing the art, but with that crazy mix of characters, I’m in.

Gulacy’s Shang-Chi

This Paul Gulacy drawing of Shang-Chi originally appeared [at least I believe it did] in an issue of The Comic Buyers Guide.  It ran as a small spot illo or perhaps as a part of an original art ad probably in the early 80’s.  My guess is between 1980 and 1983.  Despite all the things I don’t know about the piece, the one thing I am sure of, is that I like it. I hope that you do too!

Otis Frampton’s Cosmo

Otis Frampton loves sharing his talents with his fans. Every Sunday [okay, ALMOST, every Sunday], Otis has a live UStream broadcast that he calls the 7×7 Sunday. Lucky fans can get a headsketch of ANY character drawn live by Otis on a 7X7 inch bristol board for 7 bucks postage paid. It’s the best deal going.

I’ve been lucky enough to get four pieces from Otis and the Cosmo Carboni from “Paradise Alley” shown above is one of them. I’ll be showing the rest in the coming weeks. In the mean time, check out Otis’ Gallery. Most likely, after seeing more of his work, I’ll be competing against you in Otis’ next 7×7 Sunday.

Mike Zeck Covers Shang-Chi

Today we have Mike Zeck’s cover to Master of Kung Fu #86 from March 1980.

Although Master of Kung Fu might sound like a silly title, it was actually a fairly serious series about the son of Fu Manchu [Shang-Chi] who teams with a group of British agents a la James Bond.  The series ran from 1974 to 1983.  Although several writers and artists worked on the series over the years, the writer most associated with the title is Doug Moench and artists Paul Gulacy and Mike Zeck.

Moench & Gulacy began their run in issue #22 and despite an occasional fill-in continued on the series through issue #51.  Although other artists worked on the series, [and Mike even did a few issues] it was with issue #64 that Mike became the regular artist on Master of Kung Fu.  The team of Moench and Zeck stayed with the series until Mike left after completing issue #101.

But back to the cover at hand… I like the intensity of this cover and Mike really caught the look of Shang-Chi.  He doesn’t have a generic super-hero face [or even a generic Asian super-hero face].

We’ll be back tomorrow with a classic Paul Gulacy Master of Kung Fu cover.

Mike Zeck & the Blue Beetle Drop In

Here’s the April 1977, Mike Zeck cover to RBCC [Rocket’s Blast Comic Collector] #135 that I promised to post.  As you probably know Mike was a regular contributor to RBCC back in the day.   Although I’ve never read any Blue Beetle comics, I always liked this piece by Mike.  Hope that you do too.  And since we’re on a Mike Zeck kick, we’ll keep it going tomorrow with a classic Zeck cover from Master of Kung Fu!

Mike Zeck: Vintage Spidey

Happy New Year, ZONErs!

I thought we’d jump into the new year by taking a trip back to April 1977 to see a Mike Zeck spot illustration that appeared in RBCC [Rocket’s Blast Comic Collector] #135Mike was a regular contributor to RBCC back in the day.  In fact, Mike drew the cover for the very same issue.  If you come back tomorrow you’ll see it here!