Who knew that Bridgette Kerkove was French?

I have a huge collection starting from their inception. Haven't bought many for the last few years though. Also some of the Marvel Epic mags.

Agreed. It would be nice if Heavy Metal and Epic were put lout on CD-ROM or were collected into Hardcovers or TPBs.

Yeah, Windsor-Smith does a pretty good Conan. I've always preferred his take on the character to Buscema's.

that last pic kind of looks like joselyn cano:

The stories were kinda meh, but the characters were easier on the eyes then the Freak Bros:



And the name of the artist is...Larry Welz.

I've been reading Figure Drawing For All Its Worth by Andrew Loomis. Titan Books has a nice edition of the book out. The illustrations and how to guides in the book are breathtaking:

Those are beautiful drawings. I have no idea/talent for how you get to that level but I can draw with some degree of skill.

I'd say that a book that best explains how it works is "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain". I don't know if it's still in print but it was a college textbook of mine and it crystallized my interest in the medium. It's really about how you look at things. Really look at them and break them down into geometry and symmetry and what you are actually seeing. I'd almost guarantee that artist never got a twinge of a hard-on while drawing that beautiful woman, and he probably knows her body now better than her S.O.

I just checked on iBooks and there here is a revised, updated edition coming out on April 26th. $16.99. I might give it a looksee just to try and learn something new.

I Amazoned it and see it may be written by a new author now. My time with it was the 80's. I doubt they gave it over to her if she didn't follow what they used to preach but do not hesitate to get an older, used edition. It is eye-opening. If you are toying with drawing then definitely give it a shot. Again, I can't do the likes of those last two pencil sketches but I can communicate a place or person effectively.

My interest in drawing is to simply become adequate at it, rather than being completely awful like I am right now. I used to never be able to cook anything at all, either. Instead of being round, my first pizza was shaped more like the meteor that killed the dinosaurs. I like being well rounded and drawing is just something I've never really tried to learn.

It's a therapy. To draw it you have to see it. That book is a big help in that regard. It also applies to "life in general". It's a self-absorbed detachment, to draw. I think that's something you would enjoy.

I won't take that as any sort of an insult. A self-absorbed detachment is a good thing to have when you aren't drinking.

None intended. I think you took it as given.

It is definitely a skill worth pursuing, and you would be surprised how quickly you can pick it up if you put in a solid six months worth of practice, for at least 15-30 minutes a day.

Most comic book fans are probably more familiar with Richard Corben through his work in Heavy Metal or from his series, Den. However, I've always been partial to his work on Twisted Tales:

I bought a bunch of "Groo the Wanderer" comic books on eBay recently. I'd forgotten how well Sergio Aragones can draw an attractive cartoon female:



Trudy Cooper. I winced when I read an interview with her. The journalist assigned to do the interview was either stupid or blind. He stated that Robert Crumb was an obvious influence on her work.



For comparison, Robert Crumb:



And given my love of nice clean lines and anything from the glory days of National Lampoon, something from Shary Flenniken is long overdue. Not sure if anything featuring "Trots and Bonnie" violates the forum rules on posting images, so I'll go with this safe one:

i have a big stack of comics from when i was a kid just laying in a pile under my sink.xmen,avengers,spiderman,other random marvel stuff.even the first issue of doom 2029 and xforce.interested?

What did you pay for the Groos? I have a bunch in my attic. Saw a box of Mad Magazine the other day too. Last time I looked at comics prices I was glad I sold off most of the McFarlane Spiderman #1's I had years ago. They had like 7 different covers for that issue, I think I saved 2 or 3.

I paid about $40 for a set (1-40) of Groo comic books published by Epic. 1-5 weren't in near mint condition, so I paid another $10 for a near mint set of 1-5 of the Groo Epic run. Sold as lots, with complete runs, Groo can be worth a lot of $ because they aren't bundled into trades. I've seen a set of 1-100 go for $250 on eBay, and if you have any of the Pacific issues those are worth a lot of $$$.

Sorry. I pretty much took a break from collecting and reading comic books for most of the nineties.

According to Wiki, I probably have Epic(Marvel). No recollection of which #'s.

Lower numbers for Groo, even 5-10 of the Marvel/Epic run, are very collectable. Marvel consistently underestimated the print run they needed for the first year or two. I got into a bidding war over a near mint set of 5-10, and the other guy walked away with a good deal - he ended up paying $20 for it.

to the recycling bin they go then.

Eh, they'll be some lil prick to give them to one day.

i hope not.kids are expensive.

Most comics aren't for kids anymore. Damn shops are havens for 30-40 year old freaks buying anime statues to jerk off on.

Any that are kid-friendly cater to the gaming kids, starting 'em off on their Warhammer habits young.

Frankie, donate them somewhere instead of recycling if you can...maybe a kids hospital or something.

Early Groo was the shit. I had the first 10 or so issues back in the day. Long gone now, sadly. Too many moves, not enough space.

A kids hospital is a good idea. Comic books never really recovered from that stupid speculative bubble in the 90s.

Yessssss!!!! Please do.

Yep, just as trading cards started to tank, they created a comic bubble, which lead to the dot com bubble and then the real estate bubble. An entire generation fleeced. I have to blame Topps I guess. How does it always work its way back to the....I'm not gonna say it, read for your self:

(courtesy of Wikipedia)
"The "father of the modern baseball card" was Sy Berger. In the autumn of 1951, Berger, then a 28-year-old veteran of World War II, designed the 1952 Topps baseball card set with Woody Gelman on the kitchen table of his apartment on Alabama Avenue in Brooklyn.[4] The card design included a player's name, photo, facsimile autograph, team name and logo on the front; and the player's height, weight, bats, throws, birthplace, birthday, stats and a short biography on the back. The basic design is still in use today. Berger would work for Topps for 50 years (1947–97) and serve as a consultant for another five, becoming a well-known figure on the baseball scene, and the face of Topps to major league baseball players, whom he signed up annually and paid in merchandise, like refrigerators and carpeting.

The Shorins, in recognition of his negotiation abilities, sent Sy to London in 1964 to negotiate the rights for Topps to produce Beatles trading cards. Arriving without an appointment, Sy succeeded by speaking in Yiddish to Brian Epstein, the Beatles manager."

seems better than thowing them in the recycle bin.give em something to read even though the comics are pretty old.ill look into how i can do this.

I miss The Freak Brothers and Zap stuff. Fat Freddie's Cat.

I have a bunch of Freak Bros. Tons of Cherry Poptart stuff. Collected one other that I'm totally blanking on. Fuck, now I have to look. Bitchy Bitch by Roberta Gregory. I liked the super angry drawing. Big, big dyke.

christina hendricks

ooh, I loved Cherry Poptart. I forgot all about those.

Classic porn comic. Totally strokable. Lover her nerd friend and of course Mrs. Poptart.

Groo rocks. I donated a bunch of my comics to the local church thrift store a number of years ago, I hope some kid found them the way I came across Ghost Rider in some thrift store as a kid.

PS. More pics motherfuckers.

Ploog rocked. I love the stuff he drew for "Twisted Tales".

Green Lantern is a fag

LMAO. I knew they would do something like that. I thought Aquaman was going to be the fudgepacker. Superman or Batman gay? That would have been a bold move. That could seriously fuck with licensing agreements and kill action figure and t-shirt sales in certain parts of the world.

That's what happens when your movie tanks. DC has made a big deal about one of their superheroes being announced as gay and you knew it wasn't going to be Batman or Superman.

I didn't think the movie was that bad. I was actually looking forward to the sequels.

Plus it's the Alan Scott version, not the Hal Jordan version, so DC earns more pussy points.

The discussion of vascularity over on the Mandy Morbid thread got me thinking about the work of Kent Williams.

Those are all nice paintings, but the artist seems to have a problem making the subject a part of her surroundings. Unless that's his intent. Are they supposed to be haints or apparitions interjected into a still life?

For example, those lemons are way too fucking large, the second girl fell on a piece of meat and the girl on the stepladder...well, he painted a girl on a stepladder then constructed a perspective of a room around her.

They are textural, though, and very real in their depictions of the women.

Pipe Dream, we're sorry not all illustrated women look like Rob Liefield's big-titted footless wonders.

I think it's part of his intent - expressionism has always been an obvious influence on his work, but an interest in surrealism has become evident in his work.

If posting the picture directly under the image it refers to is not enough, compare the facial features of the woman in the last painting with the one in the photo. A likeness.