Geek Fallout: Pulp Heroes

Join in the thrilling adventures as Chris Lockhart, Chris Giada and myself explore the darkest terrains of pulp magazines! Tingle with tense excitement as we discuss aerial dogfights, two fisted terrors and the secret connection between Doc Savage and Buckaroo Banzai!

News: Archie's upcoming horror line, Crash Ryan reboot, and Batgirl cover controversy.

Reviews: Gambit, Dredd: Urban Warfare, and Darkwing Duck: The Duck Knight Returns



Next Time: Golden Age Heroes!

"Doc Wizard" Development

Rough Pencils to Rough Digitals in Ninety Minutes!

Back in January I talked developing an original character. 

Since then I’ve been working on a few ideas.    

Here we have a rough for an illustration focused on a young wizard battling monsters and masked miscreants in a mid century metropolis.

I was inspired by a number of things I enjoy; A young magician establishing themselves in a modern city comes from Kiki's Delivery Service. The pulp hero in the big city with a flare for the fantastic is taken from cartoons like Batman The Animated Series and The Legend of Korra with the big monster being battled by super psudeo-science is borrowed from Lee and Kirby's run on the Fantastic Four. I also want to give a shout out to Michael May's Adventureblog for his recent King Kong posts that helped fuel the fire.

Still working out were I can go with this and how I might be able to involve mechanical men, femme fatales and other colorful characters!

Calvin's Canadian Cave of Cool Comic Cover

My latest commission for Kal and his blog "Calvin's Canadian Cave of Cool". The cover features a lot of things that he loves; comic book covers from the 70s, outer space adventuring, Lasers, Jetpacks, Selena Gomez and his cat, Admiral Fluffy, all attacking the deadly cephalopod menace!

This was a real joy of a project to take on since it proclaims my own love for old comics, but also gave me a chance to real dig through my archives and find all manner of crazy inspirational images. The works of Wally Wood were particularly influential. Here are a few examples to give you an idea were I was coming from with my thought process.

 

Looking back, it seems like this could be seen as a more refined version of my old college piece, "Dex Deadfall: Astronaut Archeologist". I guess the influence followed me all these years later.