Please be kind, I am baring all. Ha! When I was 15 years old (the biggest geek you would ever meet) I met artist John Byrne at a local con. This was just when he finished his amazing kick ass run of the X-Men and I was a HUGE fan of his and would look for any book drawn by him. He was drawing sketches ($20!) so instead of asking for a voluptuous Red Sonja or a sexy Black Widow I asked for the Captain. Whaaa? When he was finished he presented me with a beautiful sketch.I was blown away. My first real piece of art! I had it matted and it hung on my wall. In my twenties I stopped reading comics and got into music and other art and it wasnt until recently that I pulled it out of a stack of art I have and really gave it a new look. Its still great. Im still blown away by it.
Tuesday, August 23, 2005
Saturday, August 20, 2005
WALLY WOOD
Back when I was around 13 years old one of the first comic book artists I ever found out about was Wally Wood. He was primarily known for his work at EC comics from the 50's like Weird Science,Weird Fantasy and early Mad magazine but he also did some cool work for Marvel and Warren. In the 70's he started to self publish with titles like Cannon and Sally Forth. What I really liked were all the details in his work (interiors of space ships!) and the double-lighting effects that he would create on his figures. Very dramatic. Of course my favorite were the 5'2'' women he would draw. They were so cute! Wally Wood took his own life in 1981 but there is so much incredible work he left behind that he is still an influential artist. He is on my top five comic artist list. Check him out.
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