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Brian O'Neill
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I'm 40, and I thought most of those drawings were crap. Sticking 'The Saturday Evening Post' on a drawing does not make it look like a 'Norman Rockwell painting'. As for the Clark Kent one, go figure, it's the one I liked! I can't figure out if the artist was sober when he drew that one and high when he did the others, or vice versa, but that one seems plausibly 'Rockwellian'..and evokes any number of covers where someone was shown reading either that very issue(an 'infinity' cover, as shown in that tacky Wonder Woman piece), or a generic issue of the title character's adventures.
Edited by Brian O'Neill on 15 September 2014 at 5:17pm
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Stephen Churay
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They aren't, but that Poison Ivy cover wouldn't see print, content-wise.
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This from the company that was going to put WTF on there covers
until they received fan backlash?
I agree with you about the HULK cover. I think it's a better homage,
even with the high price of spaghetti.
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Sam Parker
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John Byrne
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You would not have to look too far to find even more versions of that particular iconic image. I remember the NATIONAL LAMPOON doing one, and I'm sure there are others.
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Jonathan Watkins
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Norman Rockwell is baffling to me. How do you produce such quality and nuance and still produce the large volume of work he managed? I don't care for most of the homages. They look crass next to the original they draw from.
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John Byrne
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I've visited the Rockwell Museum a couple of times now, and it is a humbling experience. Not only is there the quality of the work to contend with, there is the sheer SIZE. Some of those paintings are huge. The size of the canvas in his artist-at-easel self-portrait is scarcely an exaggeration.
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Thom Price
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I don't care for most of the homages
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Ignoring whatever aesthetic value they may or may not possess, they strike me as inherently odd. "Superheroes eating Thanksgiving dinner -- cool! Just the comic book I've been wanting to read!"
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Brian Miller
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That FF cover by Hitch is most puzzling. They proclaim thru the text that the cover is lame, yet still used the image as the cover.
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John Byrne
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That FF cover by Hitch is most puzzling. They proclaim thru the text that the cover is lame, yet still used the image as the cover.•• Fanzine crap again. Trying to be clever AND cool. Failing at both.
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Brian Floyd
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Frankly, I'm surprised that FF cover didn't have Johnny
using his powers to cook the turkey as Sue is serving it...
(Yes, I wouldn't put it past the House Of No New Ideas to
do something that dumb)
Norman Rockwell is one of my favorite artists, so most of
those covers make me ill (well, even more ill. I have a
really bad cold at the moment)
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Tim O Neill
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I'm a big fan of Norman Rockwell, and a lot of these pieces really miss the mark.
The piece JB did is excellent - Ben is in character while the scene still evokes Rockwell. And while I like the B&W image posted upthread, I also like that it was used as a cover for Back Issue magazine
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Doug Centers
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HUGE fan of Rockwell, the one and only. Especially loved his baseball pieces.Hats off to JB for giving him a nod on his piece.
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