Saturday, December 28, 2013

Axus the Great by Barry Smith










The first and fifth are especially good to embiggen, but I must apologize for the wrinkle in the poster (first image) I could not seem to overcome

Green Lantern./ Green Arrow Starts by Neal Adams


Okay, I gotta admit some DC editor made the right call on having this first cover redrawn (and this published cover IS a comic icon), but the unused one is also way cool

Thursday, December 26, 2013

Mandro by Barry Smith








Here's some of the art Barry did for the movie The Hand, with Michael Caine playing a british comic book artist (!)  If you know where I can find more of this, please holla

Tuesday, December 24, 2013

Hans Solo by Jim Steranko and Princess Leia by Art Adams




Merry Christmas!  Christmas Eve, and the bookstore calls to say my special order of Star Wars Art:  Comics is in----what a great book!  If you don't want to special order it, check out all the great ways to get all the great Steranko books at Tony Robertson's blog The Drawings of Steranko

Monday, December 23, 2013

Embiggened Masterworks by Jack Kirby


Remember when Marty blew out Doc's speakers near the beginning of Back to the Future? ("Whoa!")  Well, I got so excited over this recent acquisition, I think I did the color cover TOO big

Flame Winds by Jeff Jones




Sunday, December 22, 2013

Marvelmania Hulk VS Foom Hulk by Jim Steranko


Never really noticed until now that these are very different.  Still so broke I can't even pay attention