Staz Johnson
@stazjohnson
Professional comic book artist & concept artist.
To all my American pals, on this July 4th it's important to remember the words of the Founding Fathers.. "there's a shark in the pond!"
June 28: on this day in 1974 a young Chrissie Watkins decided to go for a swim in the waters off the coast of Amity Island. What happened next was NOT a boating accident.
Here's some more old stuff... these are the first pages from my first story drawn for Marvel US, Thor #477, I'm guessing around '94 or '95. Unfortunately, I didn't get to draw the classic Thor costume, this was during the time that lots of Marvel superheroes were given new EXtreme outfits🙄
Continuing the recent theme of old artwork, here's a sample strip I did in the mid 1980's in the hope of getting work at @2000ad.bsky.social , & although that didn't work, it did catch the eye of @sharkbitesteve.bsky.social at Marvel UK which led to my first work for them on Action Force.
I drew this Lovecraft-inspired strip in 1985-ish for a role playing game magazine, it was the first time I got paid for drawing comics. I had done a ton of comics work in fanzines prior to this, & I roped a mate from those fanzine strips in to write it.... wonder what ever happened to him?
I don't think I've ever put these on Bluesky, I did these cover paintings for Marvel UK's Transformers comic in the early 90's.
A couple of years ago I worked on a comic mini-series with @mrtonylee.bsky.social & @Bruce Dickinson (of Iron Maiden fame), here's some of the pencils from the third & (what I believe was) the last issue.
A couple of last minute space girl doodles & that's me done for today..
Space Girl, private commission. These sort of pieces (A4, single character with full background are now £260+shipping), DM me if you're interested in having on for yourself.
I went with my brother to see @geofftate playing live last night. He & his band played the whole of Queensryche's (his former band) album 'Operation Mindcrime' in full. A fantastic evening.
If enough people are interested, I'll make an A3 print of this image. I will have to remove the Shanna logo & the Marvel reference though (I'm in no rush to get sued). £15+shipping. DM me if you want one.
That wind down sketch from the other night became this fake marvel pin-up of Shanna...
Name your fav non-DC or Marvel comic book movie. Is The Rocketeer part of MCU continuity now that it's owned by Disney? If not, that... if it is, then this...