tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41840768039177772092024-03-27T16:53:22.548-07:00 The Great Comic Book HeroesA peek into the upper and under world of that 20th century popular culture phenomenon affectionately called COMICS!Pipersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14403106917364296897noreply@blogger.comBlogger210125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4184076803917777209.post-27064757014045767822018-12-08T10:24:00.000-08:002018-12-08T10:24:13.452-08:00
Steampunk X-Men
by Warren Ellis and Adi Granov
Adi Granov has been wowing comic book readers with his realistic, but subtle work since his first work for Marvel with 2005's Iron Man: Extremis. Here, in Astonishing X-Men: Ghost Box #1, (Dec 2008), with Granov's subtle shading and muted colors, has put the X-Men in an amazing steampunk world of whirlygyros and Pipersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14403106917364296897noreply@blogger.com78tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4184076803917777209.post-51345071262011936602018-07-11T10:14:00.002-07:002018-07-11T13:08:09.219-07:00Bob Powell's Hulk from Tales to Astonish #74, dec 1965
Recently I asked a fellow comic fan what ever happened to Bob Powell after the Golden Age? Was he working in the 60's?
Turns out Bob Powell did draw comics in the 60's and for Marvel no less.
Bob Powell was a Golden Age artist who got his start in Eisner's studio drawing Mister Mystic, Black Hawk and Jungle girl comics among other things. After the war, he would Pipersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14403106917364296897noreply@blogger.com88tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4184076803917777209.post-2859112736565722292018-04-29T14:24:00.000-07:002018-04-29T20:07:43.670-07:00Charles Burn's Ill Bred from Death Rattle #1 (oct, 1985)
Charles Burn's
ILL BRED
Charles Burns came on the comic scene in the early 80's. His work was so striking with it's retro 50's style. His work appears on the surface to be silly horror stories but often they address real world problems and fears. In this case Burns looks at young love and the way women can consume a young man's life.
Though, on the surface, Ill Bred looks like aPipersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14403106917364296897noreply@blogger.com45tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4184076803917777209.post-17706753632840637042016-01-01T00:00:00.000-08:002016-01-01T00:00:02.837-08:00Happy New Year with Little Orphan Annie!
Happy New Year!
Pipersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14403106917364296897noreply@blogger.com103tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4184076803917777209.post-26506836666849686782015-12-25T05:30:00.000-08:002016-01-10T12:01:16.749-08:00Merry Christmas from Daredevil and Paul Smith!
Merry Christmas from Daredevil and Paul Smith!
Pipersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14403106917364296897noreply@blogger.com86tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4184076803917777209.post-42130921033130522352015-10-01T06:57:00.000-07:002015-10-01T07:36:26.794-07:00Happy 60th Birthday Michael Golden
born on Oct 1st 1955, has been one of the most influential comic artists of the last 40 years.
Here we see Michael Golden with a Marvel house add that he drew in the early 80's.
Michael Golden got his start in the late 70's in such odd ball comics as Batman Family and Mister Miracle.
Even from the very beginning Michael Golden had something special about his art as you can see Pipersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14403106917364296897noreply@blogger.com45tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4184076803917777209.post-10400473550597686062015-09-28T23:54:00.000-07:002015-09-28T23:54:53.005-07:00Jaime Hernandez' Locas vs. Locos
Love and Rockets was one of my favorite comics in the 80's and Jaime's Locas was my favorite part of Love and Rockets. In it Jaime would create stories that were like amazing jewelry by coming up with a simple plot thread on which he would string his myriad of precious gems of characters on. Impetuous Hopey, sweet Maggie, head strong Terry, crazy Izzy. Each of Jaime's crazy characters are a Pipersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14403106917364296897noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4184076803917777209.post-65451407300004495742015-09-27T00:00:00.000-07:002018-09-27T07:11:28.281-07:00Happy 60th Birthday Charles Burns!
Charles Burns, born September 27, 1955, has been amazing us with his work for over 35 years!
The artist as a young punk rocker.
Burns got his start in the pages of Art Spiegelman's Raw Magazine. His first important work for RAW would be the cover of RAW #4, which featured a die-cut cover.
This is Burn's ingenious cover for Raw Magazine #4. The first picture is Pipersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14403106917364296897noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4184076803917777209.post-27797118262381302012015-09-26T10:28:00.000-07:002018-09-26T09:25:10.242-07:00Happy birthday Winsor McCay!
Winsor McCay
born September 26, 1871, was a pioneer of the comic strip.
He was one of the first comic creators and one of the greatest ever to work in the medium.
Winsor McCay started out doing various strips and political cartoons for various newspapers. One of his earliest strips was illustrating George Randolph Chester's poems titled A Tale of the Jungle Imps byPipersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14403106917364296897noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4184076803917777209.post-75831241512674938682015-09-23T00:00:00.000-07:002015-09-23T00:00:08.728-07:00Special 200th post!
This is the
200th blog post
I've done for the
Great Comic Book Heroes.
Working on this blog has been an amazing ride.
Scott McCloud speaks about the vast world of comics in his classic Understanding Comics.
I started writing the Great Comic Book Heroes in January 2011, about 4 and a half years ago because I was looking for a more rewarding way to spend my Pipersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14403106917364296897noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4184076803917777209.post-61345239802092906472015-08-18T00:00:00.000-07:002015-08-18T00:32:43.871-07:00Crepax' the Man From Harlem
The Jazz Age masterpiece
The Man From Harlem, by Italian master Guido Crepax, is a tribute to the Jazz Age with it's inspired music, brutal crime and deplorable racism of the time.
Crepax had a dramatically unique style inspired by the Op Art movement of the early 60's but reminiscent of the Art Nouveau movement with it's organic, flowing lines.
This early Pipersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14403106917364296897noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4184076803917777209.post-32235633774668017502015-07-09T02:16:00.002-07:002015-07-09T06:29:12.996-07:00Happy 106th birthday Basil Wolverton!
the mad genius of
Basil Wolverton
(July 9, 1909 – December 31, 1978)
was one of the most original and greatest of the Golden Age comic creators most famous for his weird horror stories of the 50's.
Here Basil is with some of his comics.
He got his start in comics drawing superhero stuff like Rockman and Spacehawk for magazines like Timely's USA.
He also Pipersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14403106917364296897noreply@blogger.com21tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4184076803917777209.post-36469536650723711122015-07-04T05:43:00.000-07:002015-07-04T05:43:00.098-07:00Happy Fourth of July with Uncle Sam and Will Eisner!
Happy Fourth of July!
Pipersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14403106917364296897noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4184076803917777209.post-33095566634575663482015-06-30T23:25:00.000-07:002018-02-26T16:01:52.110-08:00Happy 80th birthday Billy Graham!
Billy Graham, born July 1, 1935 - died 1999, was an African-American comic-book artist best known for his work on the Marvel Comics series Luke Cage, Hero for Hire, and the Jungle Action feature, "Black Panther".
Billy Graham came on the comics scene as the 70's Civil Rights Movement was at it's height. It was suddenly cool to be black and Marvel wanted to jump on the Pipersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14403106917364296897noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4184076803917777209.post-71576897576290883522015-06-25T03:41:00.000-07:002015-06-25T15:42:13.955-07:00Happy 87th Birthday Alex Toth!
Yin and Yang
and the art of
Alex Toth!
Alex Toth's art is an art of yin and yang, the balance of extremes.
Happy 87th Birthday
Alex Toth!
(June 25, 1928 – May 27, 2006)
Alex Toth is one of the most visually stimulating artists ever to work in the field of comics. He mastered the craft in the 40's when he worked on such superheroes as Green Lantern Pipersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14403106917364296897noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4184076803917777209.post-90291748511789363722015-06-25T00:00:00.000-07:002015-06-25T07:20:10.408-07:00Charles Burns' El Borba in Robot Love!
El Borba is the brain child of Charles Burns, an Alternative Comics alumnus of RAW Magazine. He appeared sporadically in the early and mid 80's in Heavy Metal Magazine. El Borba is a luchador or Mexican wrestler who works as a private investigator in the style of the great 40's detectives like Sam Spade or Philippe Marlow. His cases are often strange involving cults, secret societies or Pipersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14403106917364296897noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4184076803917777209.post-7302612772006361662015-06-10T05:30:00.000-07:002015-06-10T09:56:30.008-07:00Happy 55th birthday Scott McCoud!
Scott McCloud
born on June 10, 1960
Pipersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14403106917364296897noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4184076803917777209.post-75978044265776173182015-06-09T06:00:00.000-07:002015-06-09T09:24:26.683-07:00Happy 61st birthday George Perez!
George Pérez (born June 9, 1954)
Pipersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14403106917364296897noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4184076803917777209.post-87084886848501770802015-06-06T06:00:00.000-07:002015-06-06T06:00:01.344-07:00Happy 74th Birthday Neal Adams!
Neal Adams
born June 6, 1941
is Mr. 70's. He was the most significant creator of the 70's
virtually representing the whole of that Bronze Age of comics.
Neal Adams with some of the most popular characters that he worked on like Batman, the Spectre, Green Arrow, and Deadman.
Neal Adams showed his incredible skill from his very first story in Creepy Magazine.
Creepy #14, Pipersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14403106917364296897noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4184076803917777209.post-10987892228329783592015-05-25T06:22:00.000-07:002015-05-25T06:22:00.032-07:00Happy 66th birthday Barry Windsor-Smith!
Barry Windsor-Smith (born Barry Smith in London, on 25 May 1949),
d
You can see how much Barry Windsor Smith (depicted in a self portrait in the center) matured as an artist in these two Daredevil covers he drew 16 years apart, one done at the beginning of his career in May 1969 and the other done in his mature style in April 1985. Notice the flowing anatomy on the right and the Pipersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14403106917364296897noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4184076803917777209.post-45651988771505314712015-05-19T00:00:00.000-07:002015-05-20T04:00:57.424-07:00Happy 31st birthday Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles!
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is a phenomenon that happens very rarely. It's the story of a pair of amateur comic fans making good on their dreams to get rich and famous through making comics. It's also the story of the independent comics movement in the 80's and 90's.
Peter Laird and Kevin Eastman stand with some of the merchandise of their phenomenally popular Teenage Mutant Ninja Pipersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14403106917364296897noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4184076803917777209.post-45381254064878789182015-05-16T04:06:00.000-07:002015-05-16T04:06:13.521-07:00Happy 55th Birthday Chester Brown!
Happy 55th Birthday
Chester Brown
born on May 16th, 1960
Chester Brown was one of the 80's greatest Alternative Comics creators.
He started off with his mini comic Yummy Fur which was a series of short cartoons that were usually a bit surreal, strange and funny.
It quickly got picked up by Vortex Comics. The first 3 issues were reprints of the mini comics with all of Pipersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14403106917364296897noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4184076803917777209.post-59176252178455871552015-05-12T00:00:00.000-07:002015-05-12T00:00:11.494-07:00Square Comix by Ian McMurray
I'm sure many of you have not heard of Ian McMurry but I'm sure you will in the near future. Ian is an amazing new talent that you should keep an eye on.
Self portrait of Ian (center) on the cover of his book, Alone in Kyoto
I asked Ian some questions which he graciously answered.
Who are you? When and where were you born?
I’m a Canadian, born in Toronto, raised in the suburbs, but Pipersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14403106917364296897noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4184076803917777209.post-21750346315283862282015-05-10T00:00:00.000-07:002015-05-10T05:21:09.256-07:00Happy 110th Birthday Alex Schomburg!
Alex Schomburg
born May 10, 1905 – died April 7, 1998
He was the preeminent World War II cover artist defining the look of all comic book covers of the time with his illustrations on most of Timely's (Marvel's) comics as well as many of Nedor's.
The great comic artist, Alex Schomburg created some of the most iconic covers of the Golden Age of comics like this 1942 cover of All Pipersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14403106917364296897noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4184076803917777209.post-14469518989419072092015-05-03T06:00:00.000-07:002015-05-05T09:24:38.519-07:00Happy 57th birthday Bill Sienkiewicz!
Bill Sienkiewicz
(pronounced sin-KEV-itch)
born May 3, 1958
Bill with some of his work.
On Bill's birthday I'd like to share some of my favorite images of his work.
Bill's first big series was Moon Knight of which he did 30+ issues. This is where he developed his unique style.
His next project was the movie adaption of Dune where he really showed off his style in a Pipersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14403106917364296897noreply@blogger.com88