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Back in 5th and 6th grade i made few issues of a Fantastic Four fan-fic comic where i started invents lots of my own characters. It was set in a far future time where Earth had been at peace for a thousand years but a threat had come along so they were trying to remember how to become superheroes and fight - but they had only a dim idea about how to do that. Dream America was one of those characters.
i tried to draw the comic in something like Jack Kirby's style as he was my favorite comic book artist at the time - he'd just come off co-creating The Fantastic Four, Thor, The Silver Surfer, The Black Panther, The Inhumans etcetcetc and then gone over to DC to create New Gods, Forever People, Mr. Miracle, The Demon, and - Kamandi. Kamandi was about one of the last humans left in world full of anthropomorphic cultures and races - dog people, tiger people, etc - It was furry before "Furry" and part of furry history.
- Also i got to meet my hero in my mid teens, and then work with him at Ruby-Spears on 'Thundarr' . Not hanging around the water cooler and chatting, just passing in the halls coming and going from meetings... had no idea what to say to him . When i first met him at a small con i'd told him that he was my childhood hero and that i'd become an artist because of him (i think he had someone telling him that a dozen times at every con) - so i had said the gratitude, the thank you to him. But later when we working at Ruby-Spears - when we crossed in the hallways we were *working* - going from one office to another to check on schedules, designs, revisions, etc. - and there is work that needs to get done that day and so you do not interrupt your co-worker to go down memory lane about your childhood.
- i'd mentioned before that i'd worked with Kirby, but i don't recall if i'd said that it was just working on the same show and passing in the halls. There are people who worked with Kirby on original art stories etc - they have interesting Kirby stories. i got to thank him, then a few years later we passed in the halls a few times.
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i'm not sure if this was made in the '90s or later, the scan was from '08 so it might have been that year ?
Crow-quill pens and ink
clean-up and BG in Krita
i tried to draw the comic in something like Jack Kirby's style as he was my favorite comic book artist at the time - he'd just come off co-creating The Fantastic Four, Thor, The Silver Surfer, The Black Panther, The Inhumans etcetcetc and then gone over to DC to create New Gods, Forever People, Mr. Miracle, The Demon, and - Kamandi. Kamandi was about one of the last humans left in world full of anthropomorphic cultures and races - dog people, tiger people, etc - It was furry before "Furry" and part of furry history.
- Also i got to meet my hero in my mid teens, and then work with him at Ruby-Spears on 'Thundarr' . Not hanging around the water cooler and chatting, just passing in the halls coming and going from meetings... had no idea what to say to him . When i first met him at a small con i'd told him that he was my childhood hero and that i'd become an artist because of him (i think he had someone telling him that a dozen times at every con) - so i had said the gratitude, the thank you to him. But later when we working at Ruby-Spears - when we crossed in the hallways we were *working* - going from one office to another to check on schedules, designs, revisions, etc. - and there is work that needs to get done that day and so you do not interrupt your co-worker to go down memory lane about your childhood.
- i'd mentioned before that i'd worked with Kirby, but i don't recall if i'd said that it was just working on the same show and passing in the halls. There are people who worked with Kirby on original art stories etc - they have interesting Kirby stories. i got to thank him, then a few years later we passed in the halls a few times.
......
i'm not sure if this was made in the '90s or later, the scan was from '08 so it might have been that year ?
Crow-quill pens and ink
clean-up and BG in Krita
Category All / All
Species Human
Size 795 x 1080px
File Size 313.3 kB
... but she was created in a Fantastic Four fan-fic ... The King was still at Marvel when i was in fifth grade. He went over to DC and created 'The Fourth World' when i was mid-way through sixth grade . ... but a Barda cross-over picture ... your jedi tricks are putting ideas in my mind !
i saw Kiby's Marvel comics in my pre-teens and i became a fan - i wanted to draw just like him. Spent years learning his style. This particular pic wasn't trying to copy his style but rather do a mash-up where his style is simplified in an Op-Art way on her costume - but - her skin is drawn in a rather simplified basic comic book style. i wanted the picture to look kike Kirby but a little bit different. Early Jim Steranko and Barry Smith started off imitating Kirby with a little bit of difference ....
Nice Edna impersonation !
In my teens all my money went to comix/sf/art supplies. Furthest back is X-Men #2 - nowhere near mint. And i have one original rl sketch - in cheap broad tip marker on cheap 3 ft news print paper - a sketch i saw him draw and somehow won in that mini-con's raffle - and i got to meet him and tell him how he had inspired me to become an artist. And that must have happened to him everyday, as cons grew bigger countless kids would be saying "You'e why I started". He was like Johnny Apelseed. There were blacklight posters in hippie headshops of his art in the late '60s/early '70s . - i think Kirby's best work was on The Fantastic Four, Thor, The Silver Surfer, and The Inhumans while at Marvel, and then his "Fourth World" at DC.
In my teens all my money went to comix/sf/art supplies. Furthest back is X-Men #2 - nowhere near mint. And i have one original rl sketch - in cheap broad tip marker on cheap 3 ft news print paper - a sketch i saw him draw and somehow won in that mini-con's raffle - and i got to meet him and tell him how he had inspired me to become an artist. And that must have happened to him everyday, as cons grew bigger countless kids would be saying "You'e why I started". He was like Johnny Apelseed. There were blacklight posters in hippie headshops of his art in the late '60s/early '70s . - i think Kirby's best work was on The Fantastic Four, Thor, The Silver Surfer, and The Inhumans while at Marvel, and then his "Fourth World" at DC.
I've started finding some of his Fourth World stuff. Two regrets: Jack Kirby's Fourth World Gallery; a collection of Fourth World art by more recent artists and a series just called Jack Kirby's Fourth World, twenty slim comics mostly written and drawn by by John Byrne. I can't complain too much, I picked them up at a flea market, barely read, for $15 (75ยข each).
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