Tuesday, December 25, 2012

SONS OF SATAN, THE ALL-FATHER and RICK GRIMES

The three sons featured today are all children of men who have made powerful names for themselves in their own ways...

You can enlarge any of these images for further review--it's fun even!

(Carl Grimes, son of Rick, a survivalist family during a zombie plague)

(Hellboy and Thor measuring each other up--it's a hero thing.)

(Thor looking as pissed as usual.)

(Hellboy's hunting down some kind of nasty sumbitch)

Friday, December 14, 2012

SPIDEY, GANDALF, CLAYFACE, KRAMPUS, TOO!

This weeks collections of drawings and sketches of which there are four...
click on any of these and view super-sized...

(Clayface of Batman: The Animated Series)

(The Christmas Krampus--he who handles the naughty children, quite severely I'm told.)

(Gandalf the Grey unleashes one of his "fireworks".)

(That thar Spider-fella swinging around town!)

Monday, December 10, 2012

THE ANGEL IN A RED CAPE & DRAGON IN GREEN SKIN

Supergirl sketch in pencil on paper.
Silver Age vintage.

(Click to Enlarge)


Iron Fist ballpoint on board sketch.
Bronze Age vintage.

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Thursday, December 6, 2012

OLD MAN LOGAN

As fun as regular modern Wolverine is to draw, I've just found out how much funner, wrinkly old Logan is to draw from the 'Days of Future Past' storyline.  Gray hair, bomber jacket, holstered gun all add up to equal more mutant manliness for your bottom dollar.
(Click to embiggen and embolden)
(Always fun to stretch my Byrne-fanboy genes)

Saturday, December 1, 2012

COMFORTABLE DOWN SOUTH


Like the fantastic advertisements for Keystone beer a few years back that featured my favorite alcohol-related character of all time (Keith Stone), this ad campaign has spoken to me in some strange way.

If I were a liquor man, I'd be a Southern Comfort candidate as of seeing
this commercial for the very first time:

or


It is brilliant in its singular purpose of making that man the viewer and making the viewer WANT to be that man!  Carefree and happy to be who he is, burgundy swim trunks and penny loafers on a beach and all!  He is who he is and enjoy the view ladies and gentlemen!  Or so he seems to think.



There is one other thing that this commercial taps into that I'm almost certain they weren't intending to make a connection to and that is old-school RASSLIN' or wrestling for the uninitiated.



You see, this guy looks an awful lot like he BELONGS in a wrestling family... one that is legendary, one that dominated a period of wrestling alongside a few other greats by being half of the greatest quartet of all time: THE FOUR HORSEMEN.



I'm talking of the Anderson family, of which there was Ole and Arn and this Southern Comfort ad fellow seems like he should be right in that family, the younger brother with the looks of Arn and the brains of Ole.

 



Same trunks, same build, maybe a little bit more tanned, but he's in there.

And lest we forget the oldest Anderson brother, Gene... alongside Ole earlier.

Gene may be a little further away in the gene pool, but that familial sense of fashion clearly started with him!

Nonetheless, the Southern Comfort man proudly carries on the tradition!


AUTUMNAL IMAGES

My annual look at the fallen leaves from around my abode... thrown on the scanner and manipulated in the ways of color and arrangement.  All of which make interesting backgrounds and screen-savers for the home computer.

(Enlarge any of them or download them and enjoy)