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 tuned for more [...]

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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 wanted to [...]

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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 all [...]

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Q is for the Question

September 29, 2009

The Question! Steve Ditko’s faceless Objectivist crimefighter is another oddball character that’s so much fun to draw.
Tomorrow’s entry is one I’ve been looking forward to ever since it was suggested near the beginning of this series. Stay tuned!

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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 lot of [...]

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O is for OMAC

August 31, 2009

Who else could it be but Jack Kirby’s One Man Army Corps?

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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 robot [...]

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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 had [...]

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