Monday, December 20, 2010

Superheroes.


"avengers assemble".




"any criminal anywhere".



"frank does ralph"---The Mighty Heroes,Ralph Bakshi's comical superheroes of the late '60's,done Frank Miller-style.



"belles from beyond venus"---I found inspiration in the work of Dave Stevens.



"belles"...a re-do of the above piece,created for a contest on DeviantArt.




"pronounced mist-THREE-kay-ah".



"the war on children"---a commentary on one of this past century's most infamous and,unfortunately,successful blows against artistic freedom.


"melvin and emil"




In the late 70's,Marvel Comics published "How To Draw Comics The Marvel Way"...I believe it's still available today...an informative and entertaining collection of hints on how to create superhero comics using the many time-tested methods used by the company and its artists.
Midway through the book is two rough sketches of a page of panels depicting the Avengers going up against a massive beast,showing the reader the wrong and right ways to illustrate such a situation.Sometime in '84,I made a copy of the "right" page,colored it and added dialogue.I recently discovered it in a scrapbook,and used it to create this...although many,many enhancements were made,I left the dialogue as is,much of it inspired by what I read in comics at the time.


"the killing joke"
In 1975,DC Comics decided to give the Joker his own comic.Intended as an ongoing series,
it was unceremoniously cancelled after its ninth issue...which included a teaser for the next
issue,which promised a clash between the Clown Prince Of Crime and the Justice League.
It occurred to me that the artwork for this unpublished issue may have been finished,so I
checked the internet,and found several pages...according to the blog I found it on,it had been
auctioned off several years ago...so I finished the opening page,which is what you see above.


This,as you can see,is the original artwork,with the artists credited in the 
lower left-hand corner.Because of its rough nature,I had to do a fair amount 
of improvising,such as the inclusion of the Joker's logo.


This version is an experiment,to make it 
look like an actual comic book page.



"75 years of Batman"
A slightly irreverent look at the Caped Crusader,created for his 75th anniversary.
In this piece,it should be noted that I also pay tribute to the works of Bob Kane,Bill
Finger,Jerry Siegel,Joe Schuster,Gil Kane,C.C. Beck,Carmine Infantino,William
Moulton Marston,Dave Gibbons,Steve Ditko,Wally Wood,Bruce Timm,Tim
Burton and Frank Miller.



Captain Action was created by the Ideal Toy Company in 1966;he was meant 
to be their answer to Hasbro's G.I. Joe,known for the many different uniforms 
he wore.By contrast,Captain Action could be dressed as famous superheroes 
and adventurers...among his available costumes were that of Superman,Batman,
Spiderman,Captain America,Aquaman,The Phantom,The Lone Ranger,Flash 
Gordon,Buck Rogers,Sgt. Fury,Steve Canyon and The Green Hornet.
For whatever reason,he never caught on,and was discontinued in 1968.
The piece above, "the captain modernizes",is my answer to the question...
What if he were still operating today?


"trinity"



"the fickle finger of fate"


"the freedom four"


NOBODY'S ''topping the bill''
A re-imagining of a pivotal event from 
Alan Moore and Brian Bolland's 
Batman:The Killing Joke.


Trivia: During the 1966-68 run of the Batman TV show,his nemesis Two-Face 
was considered for an appearance...and Clint Eastwood was a choice for the role!!!

Hence,this imagining,titled "dirty harvey"

Had they done it,the character was to be,instead of a district attorney whose face is 
splashed with acid by a vengeful criminal,a TV newsman who is the victim of a TV 
camera exploding in his face. Unfortunately,the idea was ultimately considered 
inappropriate for the campy tone of the show,and was dropped.


"no,YOU shut up!!!"


"atomic batteries to power"


"once more into the spiderverse!"


"sentinels of the night"


"liberty guard"


"terror above the midway"


"clobberin' time"


"retro batman family"


"retro justice society"


Sunday, December 19, 2010

Risque' Disney.

The internet is filled with sites that depict famous cartoon characters,especially those of Disney,engaging in sexual activities.I don't really like any of them because,9 times out of 10 the artwork isn't very good,and more important,as a matter of personal taste,I don't like hardcore sexual material---so I do these.
Here you will also find some not allowed on my page at deviantart.


"a beauty but a funny girl".



"skin white as snow".



"jasmine's tattoo".



"eye of the beholder".



"no,not THAT rapunzel".---in the now-defunct Mr.Toad ride that used to be at Disney World,there was a "nude painting" in the part of the ride that was Winky's Pub;this is my depiction



"princess rendezvous"



"private chambers".



"tiana changes back".



"jessica enjoys the breeze".



"beware stepmothers"



"cupid at work"


"before my prince does"---as in,the song most readily associated with this person.



"my new tail"---an artist calling himself aeolus06 created "on human legs",a black-and-white depiction of a newly-human Ariel rising bottomless from the sea.Upon seeing this on deviantart,it inspired this piece.
The exclusion of her seashell bra was intentional---thought it looks better this way.


"my new tail 2"...obviously,the same subject as above,but this was done entirely by
me; normally,a re-do like this,and I'd delete the original.In this instance,however,
I've decided to keep both.



"forbidden kiss"



---and for those of you who may have come here from deviantart---"forbidden nude kiss"



"wardrobe time limit"



"sarah hawkins undraped"




"I just teach that way"



"uhm...from Umbridge"
I put this on DeviantArt,but made the mistake of not pointing out that this version 
of Alice isn't underage,so in keeping with their policy against underage nudity,they 
deleted it ; it's for the same reason that all my Ariel pics,as well as those of Snow 
White and Cinderella...those two?Seriously?...were also banned.



"princesses playing poker"....with absolutely no apologies to
C.M.Coolidge.

 Looks like a whole lotta ball gowns on the floor there.



                                                                   "two for flinching"


                                                           "the inaccurately named dwarf"



"strip for my girlfriends"
This is actually a new version;I decided to replace the all-princess
roster from the original with some Disney 'toon females
I hadn't yet done.



                                                                  "another side of beauty"

                                           I'm not even going to try posting this on DeviantArt.



"secret life"---the third,and most likely the last version of this
picture;the first two attempts,for one reason or another,I
found lacking.With this,I've finally gotten it the way I wanted.



"dishonor"

                                                                 

"abject humiliation"

         Oh,it's sad,Aladdin's hit the bottom...


"no more gypsy guests"

Seems only fair---after all,she saw him naked.


"can't hold it back anymore"


"phillip awakens aurora"
A revised version of an earlier work.


"behold the secluded spring"


"behold the secluded spring A"
...A as in alternate version,as you can see.



"you just got ZAPPED!"
Before the recent Disney Channel movie about the girl who comes into
possession of an app that can control boys,there was another movie
with the same name...and it had nothing to do with apps,believe me.


"her head,she keeps"
...and unlike the Alice piece up there,in this one she IS...well,you know.


"no fury like bimbettes scorned"


"big hero sex"


"the princess who goes native".


"cass and calhoun friendly"


"cass and calhoun unclad"



"call of the wild"