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All of these pics were scanned and cleaned up a little. The urge to tinker is not one that I can easily resist, so in a couple of places I also replaced deteriorated dry transfer lettering or hastily-done hand-lettering with computer lettering. In order to be more-or-less true to the originals, I only used fonts that I also had as sheets of Chartpak and Letraset dry transfer lettering, way back when. Scroll to the bottom of this page to view a handful of contemporaneous self-portraits, if you want some idea of who the guy drawing this stuff might have been. And yeah, I relettered the Christmas card sketch there, too. Looking back at all of these makes me kind of wistful--I haven't picked up a pencil or pen and done any real drawing in probably 15 years. |
This was
one of the first posters I did when I started freelancing back in late 1976.
I'm pretty sure that I swiped the figure from AMAZING SPIDER-MAN ANNUAL #1. |
This one was from the early eighties, and is obviously patterned after
the cover of my all-time favorite, AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #33. |
This was actually a mock comic cover that ran in a 1979 ad for Greg "Dreamhaven"
Ketter's old store. We listed it as a "Bid Item: Perfect copy, $600 min.
If we get a bid, we'll start drawing!" |
This was one that I did shortly after I discovered the wonderful
Marshal Rogers/Terry Austin version of Batman in DETECTIVE COMICS. |
I retouched this one a little to make it look the way I intended it to
be, with the Boom Co. logo and map reversed out. Heavily inspired by Mike
Kaluta. |
Another Spider-Man job, but this time for myself, as the invitation to
the annual Halloween bash. And yes, that's me in the costume. It was COLD
on that roof! |
This one
is from all the way back to the fall of 1976, before I started freelancing--probably
one of the last times I drew just for the heck of it. Kinda trite, but there
are a lot of influences hanging out where you can see them here! |
