Instead of cluttering up Jerkule's thread with a bunch of illustrations, I'm starting my own thread, which is probably going to be mostly art related to comic books and strips, with some paintings, animation stills, and spot illustrations thrown in for good measure. First up, something I posted earlier today on a different thread:

Back in the day, Arthur Adams used to draw the hottest looking X-babes this side of John Byrne:





And he definitely hasn't lost his touch:





In fact, I think he has improved dramatically since he made his debut. I don't think he would have attempted bare feet like that back in the late eighties or early nineties.

I don't mean to step on you, but I think this may be a thread for A World Outside Porn. I put the Hottest Picture Of The Day thread here in The Cage, because it started with the Reeses Witherspoon with a black eye pic.

Other than that, hot cartoon/comic bitches is cool, as long as its not anime.

Nah, I don't feel stepped on at all. It's a good point, and I'll start this thread over in a "A World Outside Porn".

I know a lot more about American comic books, strips, and animation then I do about stuff being produced overseas, so there will probably be a lot more American artists then European or Japanese artists.

I love the "Hottest Picture of the Day" thread, and will continue to post interesting photos there whenever I come across them.

I'm not quite as in awe of Vaughn Bode as I was when I first saw his work 25 years ago, but damn...those...pneumatic breasts and...rubber, gumdrop nipples. Nobody draws 'em like Bode.

Thank you. It is one of my crowning achievements.

Dude. I forgot all about Vaughn Bode and Cheech Wizard. Makes me want to head down the road and get one of them Barry-type, umm, tobacco pipes.

LOL. Rumor has it Zack Snyder is going to do a film adaptation of Cobalt 60, so I'm kinda hoping Fantagraphics or Dark Horse reissues a "Collected Works of Vaughn Bode" soon. I bought a complete run of the The National Lampoon on DVD-ROM a few years ago, and it was worth the purchase price for the Vaughn Bode and Shary Flenniken cartoons alone.

I like Arthur Adams too, but why would Storm be wearing a g-string?

To distract Magneto.

It isn't the only dumb costume choice. Wolverine is a tough guy, smokes cigars, drinks, and gets in bar fights. So naturally, he is going to pick a...bright yellow and blue costume....

Serpieri and Druuna is my favorite !

Manara ain't bad either.

I always blamed his crappy costume on the fact that he's canadian.

Makes sense.

I guess I'll mention it here, I saw the X-Men First Class the other day. That is what, the fifth X-Men movie, and they haven't done a shitty one yet. All entertaining, all fun, none annoyingly over the top with effects (looking at you Transformers). In the maintaining quality department, that puts them ahead of Star Wars, Bat Man and SuperMan.

I'd bet good money that Hollywood is trying hard to fuck it up and I'd also bet that when it comes to the X-Men franchise that Marvel has alot more control over it than it does for other movies based on Marvel characters especially after what was done to SpiderMan.

Yeah, Marvel cut the Spiderman deal when they were about bankrupt.

Marvel and the whole comic industry did that to themselves. When older golden and silver age comics started to demand huge prices as collectibles/investments and comics in general hit an all time high in popularity Marvel and DC were so busy trying to fleece their customers that they cut their own throats and were too stupid to realize it till it was almost too late. When the bottom fell out the comic companies found out that they over extended themselves and in the process they alienated their core customers(many of whom jumped to Japanese manga and anime).

Yep. Comic bubble started right after baseball cards and crashed just as shortly afterwards. Glad I got getting caught in bubbles out of the way young. I was just an observer in the housing, debt, and dot com ones.

Didn't Pokemon destroy baseball cards? That's what I heard.

I think that is a big part of it, but I also think they learned all the wrong lessons from Watchmen back in the eighties and nineties. The way to drive sales wasn't to make superheroes more gritty, but to take a look at other genres - SF, horror, and crime - to hook adult readers. It's a real shame Black Kiss wasn't more influential.

Marvel was involved in that crash - they bought out, off the top of my head, Panini at one point back in the nineties and were helping fan the flames of that bubble.

Heh. I don't think I've appreciated his use of watercolors until now. Like the washes Bode was working with, they tend to be tricky to work with.

Backdoorman put up a picture by Milo Manara before I got to it. I like Click, but Gullivera is also worth checking out:

These are pretty fucking cool, Nassim.

Can I ruin this thread with anime yet?

Not my thread, but I'll say NO. Only dumb it enough to include beloved cartoon characters in compromising positions.













I think this move should be called the Brandon, since he's the only one short enough to do it.

Thanks, and please post some anime! If you could include the name of the artist or the title of the series, it would be appreciated. The Druuna picture was pretty cool, and after googling it, i'll probably be adding it to my reading list at some point.

Smurfette fighting off zombies was pretty hot.

Image released a collection of Howard Chaykin's American Flagg a few years back. They went with an illustration of Reuben Flagg on the covers for each volume, but this is what I would have used, or someone at Image should have talked Chaykin into referencing or riffing on in a new illustration:



This series from Chaykin has probably made the rounds at Evil Angel:



And for some noir without trannies Viktor Kalvachev's Blue Estate can't be beat:

This is the only other Smurfette that I have.

Paul Pope:

American Flagg is brilliantly put together. Chaykin is obviously a big fan of classic era porn too.

I love how ALL his women come standard issue with high heels, stockings and garter belts.

I'm a fan of http://sexylosers.com/strips.html

Those are some good comic strips. Has a nice "raw" quality like "Space Moose", but with better art.

I was going to post pics from Amanda Conner's The Pro, but I'll let someone else do that instead if they want to. Here is Vampirella and Power Girl:





No post with Power Girl in it would be complete without the definitive take on the character by Adam Hughes:

Some Natalia Fabia:

nerdgasmic^ 8)

Found a beaut by Bill Sienkiewicz. I like his versatility. Arthur Adams will always be good at...superhero comics...and more superhero comics, and that's all right. But Sienkiewicz can do comic books, spot illustrations for golf magazines, concept art for the Jonah Hex movie and DVD cover art.



Remember Amanda Conner? Guess who was the model for Elektra. Everybody's favorite femme fatale:

Frank Frazetta. I'm more familiar with his National Lampoon stuff. This one is a favorite of mine:

She-Hulk by John Byrne. What can I say? I dig green chicks.





One of my all time favorite comic book covers:

Frank Frazetta's Death Dealer novel series were favorites of mine when I was like 14. "Prisoner of the Horned Helmet" was the first book in the series about Gath of Baal the Death Dealer. THe stories were insprired by Frazzeta's art and were "co-authored" by a writer whose name I don't recall.

Nerdgasm: Frazetta, Danzig, and Bisley!

Vamps !

Man, I would love for a nice reissue of the late '80s and early '90s HEAVY METAL magazines. I scoop them up at yard sales whenever I see them but it's unusual.

I prefer Barry Windsor Smith to Frazetta when it comes to Conan. Although admittedly he's not as heavy on the cheesecake and homo-erotic factor:

How about some classics from Eric Stanton and John Willie?

Among the many euro-perverts one of my favourites is Georges Pichard: