scribblelogue

A travelogue of scribbling in the margins

9.15.2005

Make mine Marvel (for once)


So I did read a lot of comics in the 1980s, most notably DC with a lot of indies like First, Comico, Eclipse, and Fantagraphics. I was not a big Marvel guy except for the X-related titles; X-Men, X-Factor and the New Mutants. I had picked up on NM when Jackson Guice and Kyle Baker were on the art chores and what a solid team that was. Baker had not moved into his more cartoonish period yet, and his inking was some of the best of the period. Their take on a techno-organic being named Warlock (who could be described as Saturday Morning Cartoons without ritalin running through a schitzophrenic episode of goofiness). Later I would discover the creator of this character was Bill Sienkiewicz, an artist who I still place in the same range as Jasper Johns and Gustav Klimt.

That being said, I started doodling what I would want to lay out as my own version of the inimitable toaster on psychotropics guy, and while I have not started on an actual illustration, I was quite amused by the thumbnail I scratched up one evening.

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