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Finished Illos

W is for Will Magnus

January 19, 2010

Creator and leader of the Metal Men, Doc Will Magnus has survived cancellations and disastrous revisions to be one of the most fun, high-concept characters in the DC Universe. Doc and his team  of sentient robots, each named after and having the physical properties of a particular metal, are some of my favorite characters DC [...]

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V is for Volstagg

January 18, 2010

Full title: Volstagg The Voluminous, the Lion of Asgard! (I assume the exclamation point is mandatory, but I can’t say for sure.) Volstagg is a character from Marvel’s Thor series, and is a member of the Warriors Three, Thor’s drinking/fighting buddies. He is known for being (a) awesome, (b) fat, and (c) totally rad. Stay [...]

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Danny The Dragon

January 11, 2010

Here’s a recent shirt design commissioned by Happy Hollow Park & Zoo in San Jose. I submitted three roughs with the same dragon artwork, and this was my favorite. (Unfortunately, the client went with my least favorite, a more typography-centered design. Ain’t that always the way.) This was a fun illustration job, as the client [...]

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U is for Ultron

November 9, 2009

That’s right! A murderous artificial intelligence! Can’t go wrong with Ultron. He/it is awesome. And that’s all for today!

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Rocket Raccoon! Sam Simeon! Ted Kord!

October 6, 2009

That’s right, it’s a comics alphabet triple play! THREE entries jam-packed into one. Accompanying everybody’s favorite defender of the galaxy, Rocket Raccoon, is one half of the Angel and the Ape investigative team, the comics-drawing gorilla Sam Simeon. And standing tall in the back is Ted Kord, alias the Blue Beetle, genius inventor, superhero and [...]

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P is for Paste Pot Pete

September 28, 2009

Paste Pot Pete. Wow. Not exactly Stan Lee and Jack Kirby’s most inspired creation. Even within the comics, PPP wasn’t a villain of any merit at all. He eventually changed his name to the Trapster, in fact, but he’s still a pretty low-rent supervillain. I guess they can’t all be winners. But he’s certainly a [...]

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N is for Namora

August 27, 2009

I had no idea what I was going to do for N. The I read Jeff Parker and Leonard Kirk’s Marvel Comics miniseries, Agents Of Atlas. Namora is, as it turns out, an awesome character. (Apparently hanging out with a kung fu superspy, a Greek goddess, a talking gorilla, a Uranian spaceman and an indestructible [...]

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M is for Mr. Miracle and Metamorpho

August 17, 2009

Mr. Miracle, (aka Scott Free) Jack Kirby’s otherworldly escape artist, has got to be one of my favorite comic book characters, and I think it’s mostly because of his costume. There’s nothing else quite like it. Interestingly, Kirby partly based Mr. Miracle on a fellow comic book artist, Jim Steranko. Before becoming an illustrator, Steranko [...]

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Sweet Pea 2009

August 5, 2009
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This weekend, August 7-9, Bozeman celebrates its big annual arts event, the Sweet Pea Festival. Bands from all over, including some big names, perform while local artists and craftspeople sell handmade goods. Parades, races, theatre performances- it’s all going on this weekend. This year, I had the chance to design the shirt sold every year [...]

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L is for Lobster Johnson and Lady Blackhawk

August 4, 2009
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This week’s entry features two awesome old-school adventurers. Lobster Johnson is Mike Mignola’s other brilliant pulp creation: A mythical 1930s New York City vigilante known for branding criminals with his trademark lobster claw symbol, and who eventually showed up in Hellboy stories as an evil-battling ghost. Lady Blackhawk is DC Comics’ crack WWII flying ace [...]

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