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John Byrne
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Posted: 06 October 2009 at 7:59am | IP Logged | 1 post reply
A reimagining of the promotional poster I did circa 1986. Approx 11x17 inches.
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Mal Gardiner
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Posted: 06 October 2009 at 8:03am | IP Logged | 2 post reply

Beautiful. Just beautiful. Clean as a whistle, maximum impact, minimum fuss - and that just spot-on smile. Loving your stuff these days, chief.

Cheers,

Mal
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Joe Zhang
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If a picture is worth a thousand words, then this piece is worth more than the thousand most recent Superman comics put together. 
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Brian Miller
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Sweet inks.
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Steve De Young
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JB, I've noticed in your commissions, especially the recent ones, that you draw Superman's nose differently than you used to.  Is that a deliberate change you made, or just something that evolved?
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Bill Mimbu
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A great reminder of the way things should be...

Congrats to the commissioner!
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Wallace Sellars
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The inks on this one remind me of Mark Farmer's work over JB on TRUE BRIT... and that's not a bad thing!
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Sebastien Roy
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Love his expression...there is something almost mischievous about it (in a good way of course).  JB, do you use something in particular (i.e. tools) to draw the symbol on Superman's chest?
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John Byrne
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JB, do you use something in particular (i.e. tools) to draw the symbol on Superman's chest?

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All freehand.

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Peter Martin
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I remember the original poster in a comic shop back in the day when at the time I was a real Marvel Zombie. And as a promo it worked enough to make me want to check out the comic, and that eventually got me into DC (along with Frank's work on Dark Knight).

This a really great commission -- really iconic. And it looks just like Superman should!

JB, did you try to recapture or channel your original line at all? It has something of the super-smooth line you had at the time.

I like the smile on the face -- very 'Superman' expression.
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Juan Jose Colin Arciniega
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It's Super!!!
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Frank Robert
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Your old stuff was not better.  Sorry, detractors.

_Frank Robert
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