Erik Larsen
@eriklarsen
Savage Dragon perpetrator
I am not a fan of this logo. I find it objectively ugly. That it's slapped on books which are supposed to be artsy is just rubbing salt in the wounds. How did this get past anybody? Is Matt Murdock their art director?
Hunter Biden is a lot nicer than I would be under the same circumstances.
Well, I enjoyed Supergirl. Minor spoilers ahead. Milly Alcock is not what I pictured as Supergirl--but that's okay. She's unusual looking in some ways and there was no effort made to give her glamor shots. She's much prettier on the red carpet than she is in this movie.
The editor wanted his proper colors. I’d already been dicking around with it, adding stars and experimenting with different colors. So, I suggested a version with a starry sky. My initial thought was this but he wanted his proper red.
My cover to The Amazing Spider-Man #1000, my initial sketch, the inked art, and my initial color pass.
erik.larsen.75 If I was casting Dick Tracy today I'd pick Enver Gjokaj, who looks like Dick Tracy just stepped right off of the comics page.
I keep seeing A.I. tourist style maps that are crazily inaccurate. Is this just engagement bait to get people to angrily respond? They're so incredibly unhelpful. (The first map here is the only real one).
Another new-to-look-old cover for mighty Marvel. They had me dress up and color this cover as well and draw it.
Here's what the original art looked like prior to pasting up the logo and coloring it.
If you can read Alter Ego #199 and not want to dig up Julie Schwartz and strangle his rotting corpse you're a better man than me. It details how Julie absolutely shut down C.C. Beck, drove him off the book and essentially torpedoed the first SHAZAM series. An infuriating read.
What do you do when your reprint title ends but the last story you're reprinting was a continued story? Well, if you're Marvel in 1982--you do THIS--!
Here's a Jack Kirby spread which seemed to have been stopped mid-page. The Boy Explorers was cancelled and this page gives you an idea of how they worked. The drawing was outlined with a dead line and details were added to it. You can see what figures were finished and what had yet to be completed.
Here's the process for my Youngblood 100 cover: Step one: pencilled the image, then outlined the figures and background with a marker, giving it a dead line. Step two: erased the pencils. Step three: added shadows with a blush. Step four: added rendering and detail with a Hunt 102 and white out.
Saddened to hear of the passing of Sam Kieth, a brilliant artist, writer, and all around human being. One of the earliest artists to jump aboard Image in its infancy. Sam used Mako and Savage Dragon in the Maxx and I used the Maxx in Savage Dragon. We only collaborated once and Sam bailed on that.
The recent Golden Age-sized DC reprints are actually slightly larger than real Golden Age comic books. At the same time, the interior art is being reproduced proportionately too small. Actual Golden Age comic books didn’t have such gigantic margins.
If I was to amend the DC logo I would suggest something like this--which is similar to the 1977 (and current) DC logo but eliminates all of the outlining which doesn't reduce well and isn't very uniform.
DC's best logo was their logo from '72-74. Marvel's best logo is their current one. Both are easy to read. Both look good when reduced in size. Both are a bit boring but that's fine--they should be boring and unobtrusive. They shouldn't be competing for attention with their book logos.
That flying Superman had been a fixture above the logo for some time. He was there up until #275, which was just a couple issues prior. That trade dress with his chest emblem only appeared on three covers.
In other cases I wanted to restore Jack Kirby’s original faces and earlier, more iconic, logos.
In some cases I just preferred a different trade dress. Always loved that original Action Comics logo and thought that “Amazing world of” thing was clumsy.
Compared to the calendar image I thought the redrawn Treasury Edition cover was a bit weak.
In this case I took a Byrne/Austin calendar piece and reimagined it as the cover of the Incredible Hulk 178. John and Terry‘s Hulk calendar piece was based on the covers of Hulk 176 and 178. Marvel liked the calendar image and had it redrawn for a Marvel treasury edition cover.