IRON MAN /ARMOR WARS MEETS X-MEN #141

This project was one of the more creative and fun assignments that I've received in a long time. Matt Hull, Iron Man aficionado extraordinaire, dreamt up the idea of adapting the now-legendary cover to X-Men #141 by John Byrne into a Armor Wars poster featuring the villains that were part of that saga. My thanks goes out to Mr. Hull for his creative suggestion.

iRON MAN #215 VARIANT RECREATION

This piece started as a doodle that I did one day recently while watching TV. 

I really liked that positioning and composition of the figures, so I decided that I'd go ahead and do the thing as a finished  cover recreation.

Iron Man #215 was the first issue of the second Michelinie/Layton run on the title. The actual published cover was penciled by Mark D. Bright.

IRON MAN #219 COVER recreation

This particular cover was interesting due to the fact that it was the first time ever that I showed the backside design of the Silver Centurion armor. 

This was the second attempt at this cover.  The first version was rejected but you can see it on page 7 of the art gallery pages.

Personally, I always loved this cover for it's simplicity and use of negative space.

IRON MAN #131 unpublished cover

I recall that I rejected this version of #131 myself because I realized that I didn't want Iron Man to look like a total wimp against the Hulk (I.M getting beaten up on the covers is one of my BIG gripes about the Colon-era ). So, I lightboxed everything off this one except the Iron Man figure which was altered to face-off against the green Goliath on the published version.

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 MaYHEW/LAYTON SHE-HULK

This pencil drawing that I recently inked was commissioned by a long time fan --Gary Sella for himself and his good buddy in Italy, Ivan Rauseo. Recently, Gary and Ivan won a Ebay auction for two penciled composition roughs by Mike Mayhew that were used for a She Hulk and a Spider-Man: The Pulse cover.

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MaYHEW/LAYTON SPIDER-MAN VS. THE GREEN GOBLIN

This drawing posed a few, interesting problems for me, as far as interpreting what to alter to make it work as a black and white line illustration.

Ultimately, I think it came out looking fairly complete.

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I think Herb is one of the most underrated Marvel illustrators of the Silver Age.  Part of that may be due to the fact that Mr. Trimpe is a humble and very easy-going fellow-- not prone to 'blowing his own horn', so to speak.  I was absolutely thrilled to have a chance to ink him again--especially on an all-time favorite character of mine, Doctor Doom.

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TRIMPE/LAYTON punisher

Herb drew a really cool shot of the Punisher here--armed to the teeth and ready for action.

Thanks again to Gary Sella and Ivan Rauseo for allowing me to ink them and display the results here.

IRON MAN #90 KIRBY RECREATION

Going through my files, I came across a xerox of a penciled version of this cover by Jack Kirby. Since Jack's input on Iron Man was limited, I never had the opportunity to ink him on the character. So I slapped it onto my lightbox and this is the result. I made a few subtle changes--like getting rid of that god-awful faceplate nose.

X-MEN WOMENS' LOCKER ROOM

This illustration was done through my art agent at The Artists' Choice, so I don't even know the name of the fellow who commissioned it.

BTW: The hand splayed in the foreground belongs to the mutant, Gambit, who obviously has an issue with timing and discretion in this piece.

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SHADOWFLAME #2

Here's an Indy comic cover that I recently completed.

Shadowflame is one of the creations of industrious publisher-- Joe Martino.

For any of you who may be interested in seeing more of Joe's independent comic projects, check out :www.jgmcomics.com

The excellent coloring on this piece was done by Ian Sokoliwski, who has an entertaining website, as well.

 ZOOM SUIT #1 COVER

In this independent comic, the Zoom Suit is stolen and the thief is forced to bail out of the air transport carrying him.  As he struggles to put on the suit, he will discover that it doesn't have the capacity to fly! An extreme case of concrete poisoning is obviously in this guy's future. John Taddeo, the creator, was kind enough to ask me to create this homage to my previous work.