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Flavio Sapha
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| Posted: 09 October 2010 at 11:48am | IP Logged | 1
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When I posted pages in the NEXT MEN thread I mentioned that I am
trying something a little different there, but that I was going to hold off
on discussing just what that was until you'd all had a chance to see a
few issues of the book. I used the same "experiment" on this piece, so
I'll likewise be holding off on discussing just what that is!
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JB has imprisoned Alex Raymond's ghost!
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Stephen Robinson
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YEAR ONE, as a Batman story, though is missing something -- the larger than life sensibility I remember from the great Dick Sprang stories in the 1950s. **************** Question: Did you actually read those Sprang stories from the 50's before or after you had read Year One? ********** SER: Thanks to various collected volumes --Batman and Superman from the 30s to the 70s, for example -- Superman and Batman existed to me in many forms prior to my collecting Marvel and DC comics in earnest in the late '80s.
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Brian Miller
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| Posted: 09 October 2010 at 1:05pm | IP Logged | 3
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Ok. Cool.
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Bill Catellier
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| Posted: 09 October 2010 at 1:44pm | IP Logged | 4
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Really cool commission! It's like staring at the a Batman cover just waiting to find out the story. I honestly felt like I was looking at a batman annual cover. Great stuff, thanks for sharing.
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Mike Norris
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| Posted: 09 October 2010 at 9:40pm | IP Logged | 5
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I really like that thing you do with the underside of noses. Knocks me out every time I see it used.
Edited by Mike Norris on 09 October 2010 at 9:40pm
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Joe Zhang
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| Posted: 10 October 2010 at 4:17am | IP Logged | 6
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Oh gosh, I love this one.
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John Byrne
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| Posted: 10 October 2010 at 4:36am | IP Logged | 7
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I really like that thing you do with the underside of noses. Knocks me out every time I see it used. •• It's a funny thing to focus in upon, but, yeah! The day I stumbled upon that little line to define the shape of the underside of the nose, it really transformed my approach to faces. Especially female faces. Look at my early work at Marvel and my female characters barely have noses at all!
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Carmen Bernardo
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| Posted: 10 October 2010 at 5:50am | IP Logged | 8
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Looking at this commission makes me wonder where all the fun stories have gone. This one could easily have been a part of those campy Silver Age Batman stories of yore. I can imagine myself trying to come up with some dialogue for the villains as they've realized just how quickly the Caped Crusader had managed to catch them in the act of whatever scheme they were pulling... Methinks I should be picking up some of those Showcase volumes just to see how old Edward Nigma was written by the Masters of the craft in those days. It'd beat anything the new kids on the block are doing with him these days.
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JT Molloy
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| Posted: 10 October 2010 at 2:15pm | IP Logged | 9
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Awesome! A nice change of pace in the commissions compositionally too!
I love how you can get a sense of fun from this image as well as all the black from Batman's shadow and the fear therein as he approaches keeping it snugly in the character's "dark" world.
This is the vibe I'd always love to get from Batman. I can't stand when it's too far into the grit and too far the other way into the goofy. I love that middle ground and this just nails it.
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Tony Midyett
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I always seem to pick the most esoteric things to concentrate on, but my favorite parts are the Riddler's mask and his receding hairline. Great commish, JB, as ever!
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Mike Norris
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I really like that thing you do with the underside of noses. Knocks me out every time I see it used. •• It's a funny thing to focus in upon, but, yeah! The day I stumbled upon that little line to define the shape of the underside of the nose, it really transformed my approach to faces. Especially female faces. Look at my early work at Marvel and my female characters barely have noses at all! *************************** Well, I draw a bit myself and tend to look upon with envy anything another artist does better than me. (and plan to steal it). I just love what a true master can do with a simple line. In the right hands it can make an image jump off the page in way all the fancy coloring in the world could never do.
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Lars Sandmark
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| Posted: 10 October 2010 at 10:12pm | IP Logged | 12
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This commission has been bugging me for days.
It's still BYRNE,
...but...different.*
*and trust me, I'm familiar with BYRNE ARTWORK tm.
The linework has a quality that is still JB, but has a new SOMETHING that takes it somewhere else (feathery???)
I LOVE the >new< ...whatever-the-heck-it-is that you're doing. Well done Chief.
This one looks great, AND please pardon the mind-reading, but it shows that you had FUN doing this piece.
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