Category: Art

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.

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!

If you’re considering a donation to aid the people of Haiti, then you might want to check out Dave Wachter’s blog.  Dave 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.

As promised yesterday, here is my favorite non-MOKF cover by Paul Gulacy, my favorite artist from junior high through high school.

This cover is for Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man #8.  It has a publication date of July 1977.

I would have been 18 years old [on my way to 19] and just graduated high school.  As Bruce Springsteen says, Glory Days.

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?

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 aliens.  I was pretty much sold when I learned Tommy Lee Edwards was doing the art, but with that crazy mix of characters, I’m in.

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.

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!