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So after sorting through old builds I found my little Jack Kirby minifig I built right after Stan Lee's passing, and was inspired to make some more influential faces from the comic industry across the decades!
So I made eleven more to go alone with him and Stan! I wanted to include even few more, like Scott Snyder, C.C. Beck, George Perez, Julie Schwartz, Kevin Smith, Bill Finger, Siegel and Shuster (...just to name a few) but I had to stop at some point before I had a photo that was wider than I am tall :P
So yeah, I don't really think this is all that impressive of a photo, so Patreon has this image (plus one more) publicly available to all that want to see it there! (maybe I'll post that one later too, but who knows!)
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L-R: Neal Adams, Bruce Timm, Paul Dini, Alan Moore, Geoff Johns, Jack Kirby, Stan Lee, Darwyn Cooke, Neil Gaiman, Frank Miller, Mark Waid, Alex Ross, and Grant freakin Morrison
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After seven years of writing Batman, Grant Morrison ended his run on various titles including Batman and Robin and Batman Incorporated. While many of the ideas from this run were controversial, the introduction of Batman's son, Damian Wayne, with Talia al Ghul certainly brought out compelling new story lines. In the last year of writing Batman Incorporated, Morrison and artist Chris Burnham introduced Damian's fondness for animals with the introduction of Bat-Cow.
Built for the second round of Mr. Xenomurphy's Superhero Contest 2013 in the category of superhero's pet.
A small group of three characters from my favorite Batman story ever told. Everything I’ve read from Grant Morrison can effortlessly transport my mind to such a fantastical yet coherent depiction of the DC Universe, and there aren’t many writers I’ve had the pleasure to read who can do exactly that. If I had more time, I would have made several more characters from Incorporated, namely El Gaucho, Zavimbe Batwing, Nightrunner, the Hood, and more. Knight & Squire and Lord Death Man have already been done to perfection by Roman and Taylor, respectively, so I wasn’t planning on touching those.
I’m quite happy with how Doctor Dedalus turned out. He’s written so well by Morrison that he easily falls into my top 5 supervillains of ANY fictional property. His fetishization of the Ouroboros symbol and labyrinthine deathtraps made me shudder at times. It might have been more accurate to use the S6 Bandit CMF torso for the X-shaped bandoliers, but eh, I didn’t have that part to work with at the time of shooting. To clarify, I’m a much bigger fan of the first part of Batman Incorporated than I am of the second. Don’t get me wrong: both are excellently written and illustrated. It’s just that Doctor Dedalus was a more unsettling villain to me than was Talia Al’Ghul.
Zero more to go.
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Fig formulas:
Doctor Dedalus: S11 Jazz Musician CMF hat, 6873 Doc Ock head, S17 Highwayman CMF cape, black neck bracket w/red hubcap tile from 75875, Star Destroyer Microfighter minifig torso, LBM Commissioner Gordon CMF hips, evil cane
Batman (Incorporated suit): 2012 light bluish gray torso with erased S16 Spooky Boy CMF legs
Red Raven: Calendar Man head, reversed Scuba Robin torso with Hyperion arms, LBM Batgirl utility belt, N52 Batman legs, Native American longbow
From the words of Mr Benito Cereno (taken from his tumblr: benito-cereno.tumblr.com/post/109693534618/can-you-explai... )
I kinda paraphrased a little, but the idea still remains.
"Much has has been made about how the Captain Marvel concept is the ultimate in wish fulfillment for kids: say a magic word and suddenly you’re the hero and you can do anything. But I feel the connection to childhood goes deeper than that: at its best, a Marvel Family adventure has all the whimsy of children at play. Thanks to a kindly old wizard, you and your best friend (and reluctantly, your sister) can fly around and punch monsters. Sivana is very much a child’s view of evil: cackling, hunched over, married to the queen of Venus. Wouldn’t it be pretty sweet if your pal was a talking tiger in a checkered sports coat? I have great news for you, if you’re Captain Marvel.
That whimsical sense that anything can happen and which follows its own kind of childlike dream logic is not often found in superhero comics. Even when Otto Binder moves over to the Superman comics and starts building the Superman Family the same way he built the Marvel Family, it doesn’t quite feel the same (partially because ’50s Superman was your charmingly square dad rather than the idea of what YOU would be if YOU were a grown-up). Honestly, the comic that feels closest to Captain Marvel at his best (when his stories are imaginative and fun and topsy-turvy and he’s not just punching Nazis for twelve pages) is Axe Cop. It’s a small step from a tiger in a blazer to a T. Rex with crank guns for arms.
Obviously some people aren’t interested in reading about (or writing about) a child’s idea of a grown-up fighting against a child’s idea of evil, and so they change or completely omit the things that make the Marvel Family special. That, I think, is part of the reason Cap has never again reached the heights he saw in the ’40s and ’50s. That perfect balance of childlike but not childish is very difficult to attain."
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Alright, now as promised, here is a couple individual views of Christo's new Shazam MF. An excellent rendition to Jim Lee's fantastic new design of the character. Christo knocks another one out of the park :)
P.S.
Grant Morrison's, The Multiversity: Thunderworld Adventures #1, is a fantastic read, and I highly recommend it to Captain Marvel Fans :)
From the words of Mr Benito Cereno (taken from his tumblr: benito-cereno.tumblr.com/post/109693534618/can-you-explai... )
I kinda paraphrased a little, but the idea still remains.
"Much has has been made about how the Captain Marvel concept is the ultimate in wish fulfillment for kids: say a magic word and suddenly you’re the hero and you can do anything. But I feel the connection to childhood goes deeper than that: at its best, a Marvel Family adventure has all the whimsy of children at play. Thanks to a kindly old wizard, you and your best friend (and reluctantly, your sister) can fly around and punch monsters. Sivana is very much a child’s view of evil: cackling, hunched over, married to the queen of Venus. Wouldn’t it be pretty sweet if your pal was a talking tiger in a checkered sports coat? I have great news for you, if you’re Captain Marvel.
That whimsical sense that anything can happen and which follows its own kind of childlike dream logic is not often found in superhero comics. Even when Otto Binder moves over to the Superman comics and starts building the Superman Family the same way he built the Marvel Family, it doesn’t quite feel the same (partially because ’50s Superman was your charmingly square dad rather than the idea of what YOU would be if YOU were a grown-up). Honestly, the comic that feels closest to Captain Marvel at his best (when his stories are imaginative and fun and topsy-turvy and he’s not just punching Nazis for twelve pages) is Axe Cop. It’s a small step from a tiger in a blazer to a T. Rex with crank guns for arms.
Obviously some people aren’t interested in reading about (or writing about) a child’s idea of a grown-up fighting against a child’s idea of evil, and so they change or completely omit the things that make the Marvel Family special. That, I think, is part of the reason Cap has never again reached the heights he saw in the ’40s and ’50s. That perfect balance of childlike but not childish is very difficult to attain."
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Alright, now as promised, here is a couple individual views of Christo's new Shazam MF. An excellent rendition to Jim Lee's fantastic new design of the character. Christo knocks another one out of the park :)
P.S.
Grant Morrison's, The Multiversity: Thunderworld Adventures #1, is a fantastic read, and I highly recommend it to Captain Marvel Fans :)
After seven years of writing Batman, Grant Morrison ended his run on various titles including Batman and Robin and Batman Incorporated. While many of the ideas from this run were controversial, the introduction of Batman's son, Damian Wayne, with Talia al Ghul certainly brought out compelling new story lines. In the last year of writing Batman Incorporated, Morrison and artist Chris Burnham introduced Damian's fondness for animals with the introduction of Bat-Cow.
Built for the second round of Mr. Xenomurphy's Superhero Contest 2013 in the category of superhero's pet.
1st appearance of Bat-Cow from Batman Incorporated v2 #1 by Morrison and Burnham
After seven years of writing Batman, Grant Morrison ended his run on various titles including Batman and Robin and Batman Incorporated. While many of the ideas from this run were controversial, the introduction of Batman's son, Damian Wayne, with Talia al Ghul certainly brought out compelling new story lines. In the last year of writing Batman Incorporated, Morrison and artist Chris Burnham introduced Damian's fondness for animals with the introduction of Bat-Cow.
Built for the second round of Mr. Xenomurphy's Superhero Contest 2013 in the category of superhero's pet.
After seven years of writing Batman, Grant Morrison ended his run on various titles including Batman and Robin and Batman Incorporated. While many of the ideas from this run were controversial, the introduction of Batman's son, Damian Wayne, with Talia al Ghul certainly brought out compelling new story lines. In the last year of writing Batman Incorporated, Morrison and artist Chris Burnham introduced Damian's fondness for animals with the introduction of Bat-Cow.
Built for the second round of Mr. Xenomurphy's Superhero Contest 2013 in the category of superhero's pet.
The Invisibles / Collected editions (Book 7)
The Invisible Kingdom (Collects Volume 3, issues #1–12)
Illustration: The Invisibles #11
art: Brian Bolland
Published by Vertigo / DC Comics (USA; 2002)
Copyright: Grant Morrison (1999/2000)
ex libris MTP
I'm sitting here, waiting to go to dinner, and I realize I'm backed up on posting photos. I've got dozens. Dozens.
So my "one a day" guideline might go out the window for myself. I'll be posting more here, and I'm currently posting three new shots up on my BLOG, which I'm actually having quite a bit of fun with.
And so, before I go eat a tasty burger, I present to you: Grant Morrison.
My favorite author of all time.
I could go on about the man for days, talk about his work until everyone around me falls asleep.
Sufficed to say, I've been reading his stuff for 15 years, and those years would've been both different and worse if not for him.
It was one of my goals to get a shot of him at Comic-Con this year, one good O' Bedlam shot before Polaroid film goes the way of all flesh.
We were crunched for time, my friend Sam had worked his magic to get us a few moments between panels, got The Man himself to pose for a few shots, both with my friend Megan (seen here the other day as Ragged Robin) and on his own.
Not sure I love the shot, but it's enough.
Maybe now I should try to get him with the Mamiya.
A free Sunday... and my office desk is just glorious.
But first, Issac Newton once said, "Pictures, propagated by motion along the fibers of the optic nerves in the brain, are the cause of vision."
Light would enter the eye through our pupils. Light is then focused into the retina by our lenses. The retinas converts the light into nerve impulses. Then, the nerve impulses are sent through the optic nerve to the brain for visual processing.
Finally, I can let go of everything logical to spend some time to unwind after an entire week of dealing with neuroscience lectures and lab data. Before I settle down (not that I haven't already) and watch some Sunday night television to end my weekend, I thought I'd lay out some of these backlog issues and play some catch up. Sometimes we need a break, even if it is one day of the week.
Chopra once said, "Self-awareness is not just relaxation and not just meditation. It must combine relaxation with activity and dynamism. Technology can aid that.
I'd like to add "....but so can comic books."
"KILLJOYS"
18x24
Screen Print
Edition of 100
comic con exclusive available at booth 4503
TRUE LIVES OF THE FABULOUS KILLJOYS
This is a team from a comic book called, of course, The Invisibles. It was written by Grant Morrison. One year at San Diego Comic-con I went to a ''Meet Grant Morrison'' talk. I asked, ''When will we see a Ragged Robin action figure?'' He said, ''Probably never. But someone once made a lovely King Mob that they sent me.'' The next day I went to a panel on making customized action figures and I got inspired.
I submitted pictures of these figures to a Vertigo contest in Toy Fare magazine and I won!
The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys #1 with a Forbidden Planet variant cover
Here's a cover I designed for Gerard Way, Shaun Simon and Becky Cloonan's comic book. Really stoked to have been a small part in the Killjoys universe. This was a ton of fun (and twice as much drawing) to do and a departure from my usual illustration style. I tried mixing my regular style with a new style I've been developing over the past year. Everyone on the book was geeked on what I turned in. Made my day. Hope I get to play in their sandbox some more.
You can purchase it through FORBIDDEN PLANET
Check my Original Art section to see how much work I put into the artwork.
MtvGeek just posted a video for the Fabulous Killjoys comic book and you can see a sneak of my artwork in it!!! Super stoked right now!
Years ago, the Killjoys fought against the tyrannical mega-corporation Better Living Industries, costing them their lives, save for one—the mysterious Girl. Today, the followers of the original Killjoys languish in the Desert while BLI systematically strips citizens of their individuality. As the fight for freedom fades, it’s left to the Girl to take up the mantle and bring down the fearsome BLI or else join the mindless ranks of Bat City!
Leslie George Higgs 1919-1970
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When you're a princess, but you also enjoy Grant Morrison's gritty take on the X-Men. 2019 New York Comic Con.
To see my other cosplay pictures, click here.
Grant Morrison after our one-on-one interview. Thank you to Michelle Gomes and Virgin Comics for this wonderful opportunity.
The Invisibles / Collected editions (Book 7)
The Invisible Kingdom (Collects Volume 3, issues #1–12)
Illustration: The Invisibles #5
art: Brian Bolland
Published by Vertigo / DC Comics (USA; 2002)
Copyright: Grant Morrison (1999/2000)
ex libris MTP
This is an original page to Grant Morrison's and Jon J. Muth's graphic novel, The Mystery Play. Painted in watercolors by Muth. Book published by Vertigo.
This man is the best writer in the world. He's also stark raving mad. But that's the best part! what good's literary genius without the occasional story of hashish-influenced contact with higher dimensional beings while in Katmandu?
"KILLJOYS"
18x24
Screen Print
Edition of 100
comic con exclusive available at booth 4503
TRUE LIVES OF THE FABULOUS KILLJOYS
Every day begins with Samuel Beckett's beautiful face, among the Miracle Man and The Invisibles and so much more. The wall of my toilet in my 1930s flat, like an ink coral reef over 18 years of living here.
For those who don't know, Grant is one of the rock stars of the comic book industry!
This was my second year of being at the convention in a semi-official "journalist" capacity, and I was trying to do research for a story on non-mainstream comics that were being made into movies. I saw Grant finishing up a signing and asked him if I could talk with him about The Invisibles for a bit. He said sure and he was very gracious about giving me lots of his time. We talked for about 25 or 30 minutes, and I think he would have talked longer, but I started feeling like my brain was on overload.
Before we moved to the table where this picture was taken, we sat down on a ventilation grate and I IMMEDIATELY dropped my notepad down into the ventilation shaft. It landed on some mesh that was too far to reach, but the shaft itself went even further down. I had other notes in it, but I didn't really need it for this interview so I figured I would just proceed and deal with it later. But Grant said, "oh no, I know how important these things are. You should deal with it now. I'll wait."
I went off to find a member of the Convention Center staff who could help me, and I felt pretty anxious because I didn't want to keep Grant waiting for long. The people I found weren't that helpful, and then I saw Grant's girlfriend (now wife, I think) waving franticly at me from the other side of the window. I went back out there and Grant was waving the notebook. The girlfriend told me that he had opened the grate and climbed down into it, hanging from the grate by one hand and grabbing the notebook with the other. Though I sort of wish I had seen that, I started feeling a little sick imagining the trouble I would get in if he had hurt himself trying to rescue my notes!
THE LEGION OF GRANT MORRISON vs. THE SPIRTUAL JUSTICE LEAGUE OF THE LIVING ROOM
(W) Evan Dorkin and Mike Allred (A/CA) Mike Allred
Grant Morrison wrote himself in as a character into his final issue of Animal Man in a really unique and memorable story that still stands out to this day.
John Ostrander took that trick a step further by writing in and then killing off Grant Morrison’s character in Suicide Squad #58.
Dave’s Long Box did an excellent review over here
daveslongbox.blogspot.com/2007/08/suicide-squad-58-dc-com...
It’s really interesting to see cases where a person, either intentionally or without their consent, finds themselves written into a comic book and then achieving the level of Deadpool fame or Deadpool fortune that you would expect when someone sells their soul to the devil.
Mark Millar and Bryan Hitch wrote Samuel L Jackson’s image/soul into The Ultimates comic book which resulted in Samuel L Jackson landing a multi picture deal as Nick Fury in The Avengers movies. Samuel L Jackson still gets paid several millions even for just brief cameos roles and Marvel built it’s multi billion dollar cinematic franchise on the backs of those Avengers movies.
Donald Glover appearing in Spiderman pajamas for just a few seconds on the TV show Community was the inspiration for Bendis to create the Miles Morales character, which is probably the most financially successfully and well received new character Marvel has created in the past decade.
But my favorite example of someone being written into a comic book was the time Donald Trump became President of The United States in the DC Universe.
John Byrne designed 1980’s billionaire criminal mastermind businessman suit & tie Lex Luthor on Donald Trump and Ted Turner. The cover of the 1989 one-shot Lex Luthor: The Unauthorized Biography was straight up Trump: The Art of the Deal.
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So how weird was it that in 2001 Lex Luther ends up getting elected President of The United States of America? (Simpsons Already Did It.)
Is that Life Imitating Art or is that just Art using its demonic precognition mutant powers to troll us?
And then how weird is it to find out that Donald Trump’s uncle was doing Tony Stark level National Security work for the government and had control over Nikola Tesla’s Death Ray papers.
www.history.com/news/nikola-tesla-files-declassified-fbi
Nikola Tesla’s Death Ray is something you could file under Life is stranger than science fiction.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event
There’s cases that most people would call Life Inmates Art.
Like Adventures of Superman #596 that has an image of the smoking twin LexCorp towers that is straight up Twin Towers imagery and was to go on sale the day after 9/11
www.recalledcomics.com/TheAdventuresOfSuperman596TwinTowe...
And there have been strong arguments made as to why you should call those cases Predictive Programming.
For lack of a better word, going forward, I’m just going to call this thing witchcraft.
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The Outer Sunset, San Francisco
7.6.20
PREDATOR vs. THE LEGION OF GRANT MORRISON: An Animal Man’s Revenge.
(W) John Ostrander (A/CA) Timothy Truman
Grant Morrison wrote himself in as a character into his final issue of Animal Man in a really unique and memorable story that still stands out to this day.
John Ostrander took that trick a step further by writing in and then killing off Grant Morrison’s character in Suicide Squad #58.
Dave’s Long Box did an excellent review over here
daveslongbox.blogspot.com/2007/08/suicide-squad-58-dc-com...
It’s really interesting to see cases where a person, either intentionally or without their consent, finds themselves written into a comic book and then achieving the level of Deadpool fame or Deadpool fortune that you would expect when someone sells their soul to the devil.
Mark Millar and Bryan Hitch wrote Samuel L Jackson’s image/soul into The Ultimates comic book which resulted in Samuel L Jackson landing a multi picture deal as Nick Fury in The Avengers movies. Samuel L Jackson still gets paid several millions even for just brief cameos roles and Marvel built it’s multi billion dollar cinematic franchise on the backs of those Avengers movies.
Donald Glover appearing in Spiderman pajamas for just a few seconds on the TV show Community was the inspiration for Bendis to create the Miles Morales character, which is probably the most financially successfully and well received new character Marvel has created in the past decade.
But my favorite example of someone being written into a comic book was the time Donald Trump became President of The United States in the DC Universe.
John Byrne designed 1980’s billionaire criminal mastermind businessman suit & tie Lex Luthor on Donald Trump and Ted Turner. The cover of the 1989 one-shot Lex Luthor: The Unauthorized Biography was straight up Trump: The Art of the Deal.
static0.cbrimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2018/0...
So how weird was it that in 2001 Lex Luther ends up getting elected President of The United States of America? (Simpsons Already Did It.)
Is that Life Imitating Art or is that just Art using its demonic precognition mutant powers to troll us?
And then how weird is it to find out that Donald Trump’s uncle was doing Tony Stark level National Security work for the government and had control over Nikola Tesla’s Death Ray papers.
www.history.com/news/nikola-tesla-files-declassified-fbi
Nikola Tesla’s Death Ray is something you could file under Life is stranger than science fiction.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event
There’s cases that most people would call Life Inmates Art.
Like Adventures of Superman #596 that has an image of the smoking twin LexCorp towers that is straight up Twin Towers imagery and was to go on sale the day after 9/11
www.recalledcomics.com/TheAdventuresOfSuperman596TwinTowe...
And there have been strong arguments made as to why you should call those cases Predictive Programming.
For lack of a better word, going forward, I’m just going to call this thing witchcraft.
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The Outer Sunset, San Francisco
7.6.20