Archive for the ‘Superheroes’ Category
Friday, July 11th, 2008
A scrap of paper I’ve been doodling on all week. You may notice both Batman and a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle; Clave says I always find a way to fit them into any doodle, even if they’re almost hiding in this one. There’s also a new character here: Mat Cauthon, AKA “The Gambler,” from Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time fantasy series, which I’ve been listening to lately as audio books on my iPod. I don’t enjoy Jordan’s work as much as I do George R. R. Martin’s Song of Ice and Fire (which will hopefully be an amazing new show on HBO very, very soon), but I’m not quite part of the group that artist and writer Abby Goldsmith describes as “[…] bitter ex-fans who continue to buy each new volume because they’re hopelessly addicted,” either. For example, although the series can be quite boring and silly at times, I was frustrated to discover yesterday, halfway through Crossroads of Twilight, that I’m missing the whole middle section of the book! Somehow the files were lost while uploading the CDs to iTunes, or never uploaded in the first place. As Mat himself would say, “Light burn me!”
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Monday, July 7th, 2008
I haven’t posted a drawing from my younger days in a while, so here we go.
1989
I remember that as I drew I imagined the Turtles couldn’t move until I finished coloring them, and they urged me to hurry so they could win their fight against the Foot Clan!
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Monday, April 28th, 2008
Yet another early attempt at comics from 1988 or 1989. Whereas I don’t remember what inspired my “Michelangelo versus Dracula!” comic, I’m quite sure this was very strongly influenced by Leonardo #1, published by Mirage Studios in 1986. A slightly different version of this story can be found in the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie starring Raphael.
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
1989.
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Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
1989. I loved this scene from Tim Burton’s version, where Batman takes on an alley full of bad guys, including a sword-wielding madman! Notice the inner circles of the title “Batman” are made up of Bat-signals.
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Friday, March 7th, 2008
This early attempt at comics is probably from 1988 or 1989, and is most definitely influenced by the kid-friendly Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle comics Archie Comics published at the time. I don’t, however, remember what explains Dracula’s presence.
I had to format the drawing to fit this space but I’m not completely satisfied with the results. To see the original in all it’s pre-adolescent glory, go here.
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Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
I’m back in training, which means doodling compulsively while the teacher lectures. I just read P. D. James’s The Children of Men, which was the basis for the film of the same name, and in the book one of the members of the council that rules England in a dystopian future doodles Napoleonic battle scenes during meetings. The narrator observes this is not out of boredom or distraction but as a way to avoid wasting time. For me it’s half boredom and distraction and half a way to avoid wasting time.
These are all from today. I always try to doodle less but it’s difficult.
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Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
Like most kids between the ages of 9 and 11 I went through a “realistic” phase, meaning I wanted my drawings to look realistic. This was incredibly frustrating because my main artistic influence up to that point was Syd Hoff. Of course, even though my Batman looks somewhat retarded, I now find this drawing incredibly charming. I can even tell which image from the movie I copied.
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Tuesday, June 5th, 2007
In the spirit of sites such as Superman is a Dick, which use imagery from old comic books to prove, beyond reasonable doubt, that Superman is a dick and Batman is a pedophile, I present the following panel for your consideration:
From The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller (with Klaus Janson, Lynn Varley and John Costanza), Book II, Page 2, Panel 8.
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