Thursday, May 08, 2014

Nick Fury Lives

Sorry for my absence--we went back to Ol' Virginiy for Blair's college reunion. I'll get caught up on all the cool posts, but in the meantime here's some FURY (from a Kirby drawing, 'natch). Tho' my back o' book drawings aren't nearly as great as Ellis's Free Comic Book Day sketches--sheesh!! I love that Doc Ock!

UPDATE: Some of my Ellis- and Kirby-inspired faves (note Uncle Goggle appearance--it started out as the sketch I was gonna do fer you, El, but then I came up with the Teen Ellis vs. Frankenstein):


10 comments:

Tom Moon said...

Terrific sketch. That's a Kirby copy? For some reason the gun seems more Steranko-like. What issue is it from?

MrGoodson2 said...

Great hands. I see both Kirby and Steranko. Of course Steranko was killing himself trying to be as Kirby as he could manage. There is a huge latent image effect from Kirby in Steranko's work.

Marty channels Kirby as well as Bruce Timm. He could make a lot of money doing it if he felt like doing it all the time.

Davis Chino said...

Thanks dudes! This is from a poster I bought from the people that run the Kirby Museum (?). THey had a table at Wondercon. From Stange Tales #142, cover by Kirby--and I think the gun, as drawn on cover, looks very Kirby--but Fury's face looks like either the inker skimmed out a bit of the Jack, or it was redrawn by someone else (Steranko?). The un-Kirbyness is just my lax translation....

I am going ot abouse this post and add a few more of these sketches that have a relevance to this wonderful blog and the people who post here.

Gird yrself!!

BDMontag said...

What's the Stuart Eng book deal? I missed the first 10 minutes of this movie.

Davis Chino said...

Sorry, Ben--the Stuart Ng Book shop bought a chunk of my book inventory (that Brushpen Breakfast 2014 I did for E.C.C.C.). He sold out my last book, and when he saw the new one, offered to buy 21 copies (which is over 40% of my inventory--hooray). I always add an original sketch to each copy I sell, even "wholesale" (helps justify our cover price of $20).

(Side note: we came up with the idea of slapping a sticker on each book that proudly announces "ORIGINAL BRUSHPEN DRAWING INCLUDED!"...now that's marketing!)

We are talking tiny, tiny money here--but I am mucho gratified by ANY sale. And I am in the black on this book, as opposed to last years, where I lost a little. That's all down to keeping my cost low--just $5 for this one, as opposed to almost $11 last year.

Of course this year's book is a lot flimsier!

BDMontag said...

That's what she said.

MrGoodson2 said...

I didn't know all the Stuart Ng details. Those are worth 100 bucks easy. With that much content and an original piece. So the best sketchbook deal on the planet.

2 favorite sketches are Teen Ellis vs Hulk and your Uncle Goggle. Both too good to pick a favorite.

Love the others as well. Great Crystal. Who I thought was Medusa and had to research. I'm a pretend comic book fan. I know nothing.

Except I know great art.

Tom Moon said...

I suppose all these sketches will be showing up in the 2015 Brushpen Breakfast book. They are all great!

Davis Chino said...

Dudes, thank you guys so much for the kind words. El, I had to do an Uncle Goggle--he is so funny! Glad you approve.

Tom: yes! The 2015 book (jeez, that sounds so far in the future but it's only just around the corner...sigh.)

Rickart said...

Yeah, just a warning Marty... I'm totally using your path and I'm hoping that I can drop your name and sell some books to Stuart next year. I have a crapton of Creeple drawings and I've been playing around with your idea of drawing convention goers as Creeple with some success.