Comics these days don’t have enough cutaways.










Comics these days don’t have enough cutaways.
Today would’ve been Jack Kirby’s 97th birthday, we have Jack to thank for probably the majority of Marvel superheroes you’ve seen on the big screen (plus a hell of a lot you haven’t).
Captain America is Jack’s along with Joe Simon, and with Stan Lee he created Iron Man, Hulk, Thor, Nick Fury, the Avengers, the X-Men, the Fantastic Four, the Silver Surfer, Loki, Galactus, and (a considerably more verbose) Groot. That doesn’t even cover his characters that have appeared on screen, seriously, he helped create a lot of characters.
I’ve been playing around with animated gifs this weekend; for some reason I’ve got superhero costumes/general wardrobes on the brain and the logical extension of this seemed to be messing around with animated gifs of the Superman and Bats in their pants.
They seemed a little…flat, so this evening I decided to have a crack at another one; as a kid my favourite member of the Justice League was always the Atom (I loved Super Friends episodes featuring the Atom) and I’m definitely happier with this one:
Even if he does have a bit of a wardrobe malfunction.
(via Drawn)
Seven Hundred has a whole collection of Movie Mr Men (including Watchmen, Batman, Spider-Man & X-Men Heroes and Villians). This also makes me want to start doing some more Marvel-ous (ha!) doodles – I kinda stopped after my Marvel Tapes.
I, no doubt like a million others, instantly thought ‘Steamboat Wolvie‘ at the news that Disney was buying Marvel, but to be honest I’ve left it a little too long to join in with the mashups (see also: Penny Arcade’s take, Kotaku’s Dream Team-ups).
But I still wanted to play and this seemed to make sense as a way to go – this is my two-minute lunchtime sketch version that I’ll work up into something proper soon – I’m looking forward to doing Alice the Homunculus/Roger the Goon…