Category: Original Art

Bill Everett, Sub-Mariner, and the Golden Days of Youth

Recollecting the golden days of youth, I grow fonder of Bill Everett and Sub-Mariner. Everett guided Namor's emergence in Marvel Comics 1. I was never a huge fan of...

X-Men Artists That Rock: So Many Good Ones

I got excited when I saw that someone else was talking about "the definitive artist".  I can't take credit for that since my blog was written but not published when I...

War, What's It Good For: Artists Joe Kubert and Dick Ayers

Legendary War Artists Joe Kubert and Dick Ayers make you rethink the old song lyric, "War, What's It Good For?"  While no one should glamorize the horrors of war, Joe Kubert and Dick Ayers told hundreds of...

The Definitive Artist: Remember When "Insert Name Here"

Remember when Ryan Sook was the definitive artist for Spectre?  Someone slightly older chimes in.  "Excuse me, the definitive 3rd Series came out in 1992 featuring the artistry of Tom Mandrake." A...

Smashing She-Hulk Art: She's Smart, Strong, and Selling

[caption id="attachment_90521" align="alignleft" width="190"] Fantastic Four 275[/caption] She's Smart, She's Strong, She's She-Hulk.  And...She's selling, just not seashells on the seashore.  It's well documented that She-Hulk's place in the Marvel Media Universe is expanding. Even here at...

Black Lightning Art Strikes--Or has the storm passed?

Black Lightning's character profile lit up like like lightning in the night sky when the CW gave the character his own series.  Before... Jefferson Pierce could have been mistaken for a president not a comic book character.  Now, besides name recognition, the CW made Black Lightning a...

Frazetta on Frank Frazetta (Part 1 of 2)... Insight into the Man and Breaking Product News

Frank Frazetta. To many, he is the greatest fantasy artist of all time. To others, he was the man whose talents lifted the comic book art form. To a young lady named Sara, he was something more…Frank Frazetta was her grandfather. Gatekeeper to the...

Snake Eyes Original Art - Is it about to roll?

Media hubbub is always a good thing for a fictional character.  A quick study of auction prices reveals art featuring Thanos and Captain Marvel fetched interstellar prices since the announcement and success of the movies.  Is...

Amazing Spider-Man 129 Cover Art: $2,000,000 in Hype?

[caption id="attachment_89032" align="alignleft" width="208"] Image from TMZ.com[/caption] I'm not saying it couldn't happen, but let's say I am cautiously...

Spotlight on Rags Morales: 21st Century Da Vinci

 In the last 21st Century Da Vinci, I focused on Greg Capullo.  Today, I spotlight Identity Crisis artist Rags Morales.  Just as Leonardo Da Vinci shaped the future with his scientific thinking and...