We haven't had a Monster Monday here for quite a while. Here's a Mike Ploog piece to get us back in gear.
A nice gluey gloppy Man-Thing commission for ComicArtFans Simon Reed. Nuff Said!
It's the weekend, which means it's time once again for the Silver Surfer. He has a small role in this illustration, next to his master, Galactus.
Mike Deodato did a kick-ass job on this one. Nuff Said!
Moebius Marvel work was extremely rare, but here are three pieces that I featured previously on GSM.
Thing Tuesdays: Moebius Poster
Moebius Iron Man Poster
Silver Surfer Saturday: Moebius Marvel Age Cover
Nuff Said!
Gil Kane is one of my favorite all time artists. There will never be another guy ever who draws like Kane. But we'll always have this work, which I've featured in previous posts.
Click on the links below for the giant-sized versions and associated content:
Marvels of Gil Kane: Warlock Covers
Duck! Gil Kane's Cover for Kid Colt 200!
Marvels of Gil Kane: Captain Marvel
Marvels of Gil Kane: The Beast Kills Iron Man!
Even more goodies below in these links--click on 'em!
Marvels of Gil Kane: The Inhumans
Marvels of Gil Kane: Giant-Size Conan #1
Gil Kane and Dave Cockrum on John Carter, Warlord of Mars
Marvels of Gil Kane: Ka-Zar and Zabu, too
Two of my favorite off-beat characters are in Secret Avengers. Here are some posters, in the original black and white versions from Mike Deodato.
Valkyrie was one of my favorite Defenders. The version in Secret Avengers isn't quite the same, but in looks and spirit she's close enough for me.
The Beast is back--let's hope he stays with the Avengers for 10 years before going back to that crowded island of mutants. I wonder if drives Deodato nuts to draw all that hair? He's very good at it. Nuff Said!
I just feel so awful about that Jean Grey Black Queen picture from yesterday. Can I redeem myself somehow? With this wholesome image of Jean Grey, before the Phoenix force robbed her soul?
Yes, I feel cleansed, like I'm back in the 7th grade reading about Professor Xavier's School For Gifted Youngsters. When Jean was a Marvel Girl and Marvel Girls ruled. Nuff Said!
Link: Mike Mayhew on DeviantART.
Here's a great illustration of Jean Grey, as the Black Queen, from the malevolent mind of Mike Mayhew.
Because, sometimes, it's just good to be bad, especially when she's wearing a leather corset.
Link: Mike Mayhew on DeviantART.
My 1970s tribute to Jack Kirby ends with a couple of pages from one of his most daring and different projects of all, his adaption of 2001 A Space Odyssey! When the Bullpen Bulletins announced that Kirby was returning, the kicker to the news was that he would adapt the Stanley Kubrick film in the Marvel Treasury format.
The adaption was a mixed bag. From a story standpoint, it was weird to see all of these captions and thought balloons explaining everything, which was almost completely non-verbal in the movie. But from an artistic viewpoint, it was completely triumphant for Kirby. He was allowed to draw all kinds of apes, spaceships, and cosmic stuff in giant splash pages like the one above. Dave Bowman blasting back into the Discovery spaceship!
Here's a medium sized pic of the original pencils to the Bowman page. Think about all the time Kirby spent filling in the blacks/shadows on the hands and everywhere. Most comic book artists don't bother to that anymore, do they? How long did it take Kirby to draw this page? One day at most? Wow.
This gigantic double page spread took place earlier in the story, where the scientists are flying over the moon towards the Monolith. I always thought this drawing of the moonscape and base were awesomely detailed by Kirby.
Link: 2001: A Comic Book? A Look at Jack Kirby's Controversial Adaption.
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