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Trouble Shooter
“I wanna be Jim’s Shooter!” some ‘clever’ wag in fandom said once in the 80s. HA HA GOT ‘IM. Cool way to enjoy comics, bro. There was a LOT of vitriol around Jim Shooter then in those times (and certainly extending into the 90s as he launched several failed publishing ventures), some of it warranted,…
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When cometh… THE COMMUTER
Peter Allen David got it. He was a journalist. He wrote stuff. The amazing thing was… Marvel editorial didn’t want him. They were locked in battle against the forces of the Sales Department, which is where PAD got his foot in the door at Marvel. It took maverick editor Jim Owsley (now known as the…
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Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth with Money in My Hand
I was led to believe that yesterday was Superman Day. It was not; but strangely both April 18th and June 12th are listed online as a POSSIBLE candidate for same. Perhaps it was serendipitous luck that I accidently selected MIRACLE MONDAY (IYKYK) instead and that seems appropriate enough to have drawn the following: This image…
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Strange highs and Strange lows
“Time to get my Paul Smith on, know what I’m sayin’?” There’s a reference for like two people, but here’s a knockoff homage to Paul Smith’s glorious cover for Doctor Strange #56. Yes, it was difficult, no it doesn’t look as good as the real thing and yes my hands suffered immensely? “What’s up with…
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Relive the pictures that have come to pass
‘Twas Bruce Timm’s birthday yesterday and the thought occurred that I’ve never drawn the animated Batman style Batman EVER. Like EVER ONCE IN MY LIFE. And that’s not due to a lack of fondness for it… I love Batman: The Animated Series! It just never really occurred to me to try to rip off do…
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I yam what I yam
The other night, I was a bit bored and wanted to draw but couldn’t really find anything I wanted to do. The missus suggested “Why not Popeye?” We both have a mutual fondness for Thimble Theater, particularly under EC Segar’s pen… and of course the character (in)famously just fell into public domain. Actually, before I…
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A Death in the Family
It was a long time ago; we are talking 1988 or early 1989… but I distinctly recall sitting at the kitchen table. Mom walked by, telling me that she and Dad were leaving for the weekend, and that I needed to be good while they were gone. I nodded, picturing eating ice cream and watching…
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Men of Iron
“I prefer fact to fantasy, no matter how inviting,” Stark smirked at the apparition before him. The otherworldly face of the unknowable Goddess twisted into a sneer. “You have no belief in anything, then,” she thundered. “You are a hollow, soulless being who can never achieve transcendence.” Tony Stark never met a challenge he couldn’t…
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I wanna be EVERYWHERE people are doin’ ART
A few things I’ve drawn recently and a few words about the artists and comics I ripped them off from that they came from: Toth meets Kirby in a show I probably would have watched religiously had it made air It was the great Alex Toth’s birthday a few weeks back and I felt like…
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He’d like to blow our minds
If you knew me in what we call the elusive and increasingly laughable “real life,” you probably wouldn’t be surprised to learn that the 1994 DC Comics series Starman means one hell of a lot to me. An example of what I would call my “$30 at a convention table” style. Tony Harris used to…
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