There’s been a whole slew of blogs cropping up lately featuring cartoonists and illustrators “covering” a comic book panel, comic book cover, or even just the little corner/logo. I’m working on a submission for the Covered blog at the moment, but just before Christmas I submitted something to the Repaneled blog that was accepted. Since it’s been posted there for a bit, I guess it’s safe to repost here.
The Simonson run of Thor was one of my very favorites when I was a kid and the initial Beta Ray Bill story arc was what initially grabbed me. In fact, if you’d looked at any of the comics I was doing in my sketchbook at about age 13, you’d have seen something that looks like Walt Simonson’s retarded evil twin using a Sharpie marker held in his left foot to draw a really bad Blade Runner rip-off. I doubt anyone would look at my work these days and see much of a Simonson influence, but it’s there for sure. I even occasionally find myself drawing characters with the trademark Simonson “grump lines” at the lower corners of the mouth. You can see I’ve added them to Thor in my drawing here even though the original didn’t have them.
So, here’s my version of a panel from Thor #340. My version isn’t terribly different than the original. Without a full-body framing of the characters, I didn’t really have the opportunity to do my usual “spaghetti arm” treatment of the characters. Also, it’s pretty hard to cartoon-up Beta Ray Bill.
And here’s the original:
The original art for this is for sale here.
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