{"id":2385,"date":"2010-10-20T09:14:05","date_gmt":"2010-10-20T13:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=2385"},"modified":"2010-11-18T10:00:15","modified_gmt":"2010-11-18T14:00:15","slug":"80s-x-men-as-drawn-by-e-c-segar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=2385","title":{"rendered":"80s X-Men as Drawn by E.C. Segar"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m not sure why I got going on this particular tangent, but here’s a drawing of the early 80s X-Men (I used the lineup from the 1982\u00a0 X-Men\/Teen Titans crossover<\/a>) done in the “bigfoot” style common to newspaper strips in the 1920s\/30s. I used E.C. Segar’s Thimble Theater<\/em> characters as my models here. In reverse order here it is–first the final colored drawing, below that the inks, and below that the pencil drawing from my sketchbook:<\/p>\n

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You can find more of my superhero pinups here<\/a>, or by clicking the “Superhero Pinups” link in this site’s tag cloud on the right.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The original art for this is for sale here<\/a>.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m not sure why I got going on this particular tangent, but here’s a drawing of the early 80s X-Men (I used the lineup from the 1982\u00a0 X-Men\/Teen Titans crossover) done in the “bigfoot” style common to newspaper strips in the 1920s\/30s. I used E.C. Segar’s Thimble Theater characters as my models here. In reverse … <\/p>\n

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