Jan 25 2009
Here’s yet another pinup I’ve done to send along with my art dealer up to the New York Comic Con in a few weeks. This piece is based on a panel from Thor #337, the first Walter Simonson issue. Simonson’s run on Thor was one of my absolute favorite series when I was a young comics-reading kid in the ’80s–and, unlike a lot of the stuff I liked back then, it actually ages pretty well. It’s still a great read.
Jan 22 2009
The New York Comic Con is fast approaching. Alas, I’ll not be going in person; however the good folks from A Cosmic Odyssey, who sell my original art work, will be attending. I sell at least a page or two of original art from my graphic novels at each “indie” convention, like SPX, but at big mainstream cons like Heroes Con in Charlotte, for example, I seem to have better luck with superhero stuff. Consequently, I try to drum up three or four superhero pinups–albeit, drawn in my rubber arm/button eye style–to have on hand for events like that. Here’s one I just wrapped up–a pinup of the classic ’80s John Byrne Alpha Flight:
Jan 20 2009
While the current Obama/Spider-Man buzz making the rounds is Marvel’s (supposedly pretty ham-handed) “guest appearance” by Obama in a current Spider-Man issue, here’s something a bit more subtle that recently caught my eye. Last Sunday’s Parade Magazine newspaper insert contained a contained a letter/essay from Obama to his children entitled “What I Want for You — and Every Child in America.” In that essay was the following passage:
“…with the great privilege of being a citizen of this nation comes great responsibility.”
Maybe it’s just the fanboy in me, but the first thing I thought of was, of course, this:
Or, as it later often appeared both in the comics and in the films:
“With great power comes great responsibility.”
Jan 15 2009
It’s been a grim week or so: first Ron Asheton, now Ricardo Montalban. As slashdot remarked, “The voice of Rich Corinthian Leather is silenced, but we still have the memories.”
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