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Summer of Minis 2010 – Part IV

(Continuing my look at the minis I’ve been reading from this summer’s comics events. Earlier installment(s): Part I, Part II, part III) Too Far – Anthology Daily Catch – Anthology I make a point at every SPX to pick up a few anthologies from Center for Cartoon Studies folks and this year the two I …

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Superhero Pinup: The Red Ghost

Yes, here’s yet another of my mini-superhero pinups of a B-list Marvel character: The Red Ghost.  Once again, I didn’t know a whole lot about the character before setting out to draw him.  I did know the important things, though: 1) created by Jack Kirby 2) super-powered apes. Like 94% of all Marvel characters from …

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Superhero Pinup: Polaris

I’ve got a new policy for end-of-the-day sketching: if it takes me more than about thirty seconds to decide what to draw, I’m just gonna randomly grab an old issue of The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe and do a mini-pinup of one of the characters. I really enjoy drawing them and they sell …

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Caricature: Ray Kurzweil

I’m really bad at caricatures, but I do them anyway. That’s how you get better, right? (In theory, anyway..) This is an odd subject, but it was the only thing I found interesting leafing through the most recent TIME magazine recently: author/inventor/futurist Ray Kurzweil. Here’s the drawing (with some sloppy Photoshop color) and a picture …

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Shameless Self-Promotion Holiday Sale!

Yeah, that’s right: a shamelessly self-promotional holiday sale! Enter HOLIDAY2010 at checkout for 20% off everything in my store. In addition to an assortment of original pages from Midnight Sun and Amelia Earhart: This Broad Ocean, there’re: Signed and sketched-in copies of Amelia Earhart. Great for anyone maybe 8 to 14-ish, especially girls! My convention-fave …

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