Comics these days don’t have enough cutaways.
Category: Comics
King Kirby
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.
The Atom
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.
Charlie Brown
(via Drawn)
Mr Bat & Friends
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.
A Logical Extrapolation?
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…