Superman Remembered.

Well, after reminiscing last entry I sat down to re-create the very panel I reminisced about! I suppose I should have made it look exactly like a Wayne Boring Superman but that Superman was a little on the heavy side. Looking back on it now he was built like a refrigerator box with a pin head. I wanted to draw Superman as my own ideal and not Boring's. Besides this is MY website. If Wayne Boring wants to put up his version of Superman with his shirt off he can start his own blog!

Oh, and if you want to read the reminisce you can. It's the previous blog entry right down there below this one.

Peace out.
j.

HOORAY FOR SUPERHEROES!!

Allow me to reminisce for a moment, won't you. One of the first comic books I remember was an issue of Superman my dad had in a stack of comics and magazines. The pile was mostly DC thinking back on it now...Batman, maybe a horror comic or two. In the Superman comic there was a panel with Superman removing his shirt to reveal a metal chest plate over his pecs. I was probably too young to read because I don't remember any other part of the story and it led me to believe that Superman was only bulletproof in one area.

I used to look at that panel all the time. Sometimes I was trying to figure out why he had a metal plate on his chest, sometimes mentally removing that chest plate and imagining a glowing kryptonite heart underneath or just an empty cavity. I thought it was embedded in his chest and he would die if it was removed. Mostly I'm pretty sure I kept looking at that panel because it was one of the first times I'd seen a man with his shirt off!

When you grow up in a small town where pin-up girls are a regular sight in your dad's workshop you take your thrills where you can get them, folks.

The hero above is some kind of Owl type guy. I think the Owl is taken by the Watchmen. For now he's just a character I like doodling.

j.

Monster Beach III

Happy New Year!
Let's ring in the new year with another lame gag panel starring everyone's favourite monster muscle-men! This one introduces the mummy...for the "bandage" fetishists out there! There's got to be a waxing gag involving the Wolfman but I've yet to come up with it.
(There's probably a "gagging" gag to be made, too...)
Cheers!
j.

Deck the Halls!

Happy Holidays! This is last years Christmas Card...due to a shortage of time and lack of any good card ideas I'm repeating myself this year. Hope y'all don't mind!

Feliz Navidad!
j.

Monster Beach Party!

Following in the grand tradition of monsters frolicking on the beach I submit to you my second cartoon in the series.

Oh, and you're not mistaken... the punchlines are cheesy. And once again I find myself approaching the frightening territory of the "Furry" (if you don't know what that is I suggest a google search then a cleansing of the eyes and brain). I suppose it's inevitable when you attempt to "hunkify" fictional characters. I even gave the Wolfman a tail for an upcoming joke.

Frankie's pose is loosely based on one of my favourite sculptures, Bernini's David. Even though I didn't copy it I love the look of determination on David's sculpted face.

Y'know, so far the hardest Universal Monster to "hunkify" is also my favourite -- The Creature from the Black Lagoon! He's a fish man! That's not really all that sexy. Not to me, at any rate. The easiest one to do is the Invisible Man!

And wait till you see Igor!

Woof!

Git along, big doggy!

This is a newly inked version of an old drawing I had lying around. I tried a new chest hair technique (which I think is a "brush" in Photoshop now;) and drew armpit hair for, maybe, the first time. It's only subtle there. The problem I always had with drawing armpit hair is that when it's there it's all I notice about a drawing. Don't analyze why, that's not important. But it is why I haven't done it in the past.

Now that that's cleared up let's discuss how hot torn jeans are. And how cowboy boots are both totally sexy and yet so dorky at the same time. Maybe it's their dorkiness that makes them sexy.

Barbarian Man!

Many of the images appearing in this blog were created for a friend of mine. He's a writer and more than a bit saucy! He concocted a barbarian scenario for which I created this image. Unfortunately I have yet to complete any sort of story pages for the guy.

Eventually I'd love to do a sweaty sword and sorcery epic with all the cliche Barbarian stuff. As a kid I watched all those terrible Conan rip-offs like Yor The Hunter From the Future, Beastmaster, Hercules, Krull, Deathstalker, the tv series Wizards and Warriors (which had what I thought were cool drawings before and after commercial breaks leading into and out of the live-action).

Not really a barbarian movie but awesome nonetheless was the He-Man movie. I read once that the director thought of the movie as an adaptation of Jack Kirby's Fourth World.

Happy Halloweiner!

Homage to Frazetta!

Oh, I love Frank Frazetta's artwork. I thought when I came up with this image that I would end up swiping a Frazetta piece whole hog...but as it turns out I was conglomerating a bunch of Fritz paintings in with a bunch of his black and white stuff...in the end I used the chest harness thing from a John Carter of Mars painting (I think) and the delicate, beautiful, ornamental designy-ness of his space clothing. Plus the pose is totally cliche Spaceman/Barbarian with slave-girl/alien chick. And then I inked it with a ham fist and erased any chance that Frazetta comparisons would be drawn!

Winter Tanning!

Best get these out there before the winter images start kicking in!

The L'il Devil

A grown up version of the character Hot Stuff. Usually I dislike taking childhood characters and "perverting" them into a grown up world. (There's a lot of that going on in comics right now and it makes for really crappy reading, if you asks me.) But for the sake of a pin-up I forgive myself!

Smokin' Joe

Drawn in the days before that ridiculous fish bowl was built for the smokers at Woody's. I'm not so sure Joe would ever tuck in a tank top but that's the way I drew it, so that's the way it is.

Fair Leather Friends!

One day I'm going to do the image of the two guys as a t-shirt! I've got the screen printing kit...I'm just too lazy to do it!

Morning Martini

I used to LOVE the Lychee martini from lub (umlaut over the "u"), a lovely little bar on Church St. They put a real lychee fruit in the bottom of the glass, which I love. First of all it looks hilariously like a testicle. And secondly it's something to eat so you're not drinking on an empty stomache. One night I drank so many I got sick. Stupid sick. Just so you understand how devastating that is for me I hadn't thrown up since grade eight...which is a long time ago.

I still love martinis, just not the lychee. (I've got a whole bottle of Soho Liqueur for anyone who wants it.)

Cheers!

Two posts in one day...but I was just so happy with the way this guy turned out! In my old neighbourhood there was constant roofing work being done. I have no idea why that was. Sometimes I'd run two or three errands in a day depending on how good looking I thought the guys might be just so that I could walk past the work site. I suffer from bad vision so more than likely they were best viewed from such a distance lest I shatter my delusions.

Two new old images. The superhero pose is taken from a Tom of Finland drawing, altered slightly. I never finished it. And this...what can I say...I like guys in jeans and tank tops.

Here's a little black and white something or other to start things off.