I Wish I Were in Love Again

Another repurposed element from that Sinatra poster I did some years back, this time incorporating the lyrics from one of Frank's more bizarre songs, his version of the 1937 Rodgers & Hart tune, "I Wish I Were in Love Again" (recorded in 1957 for the Capitol album, A Swingin' Affair!). 

Springtime for Batman #3

Springtime for Batman #2

Ultraman

Damned.

This drawing began as being one of the kids from Village of the Damned, but as I continued working on it, it morphed into a Millennial woman who thinks it's cool to dye her hair gray. Or something. 

The Rockford Files

The Song is You

Some Days You Just Can't Get Rid of a Bomb

Perhaps the most oft-quoted line from the 1966 theatrical BATMAN movie starring Adam West and Burt Ward, "Some days you just can't rid of a bomb!" just lends itself to artistic interpretation. I'm not the first person to do this, and I guarantee I won't be the last. 

In His Steps Panel Redux / POOC

Two panels out of context (#POOC) recreated from the unintentionally psychedelic 1977 Spire Christian Comic, IN HIS STEPS by Al Hartley. There's a tiny bit of tweaking in these recreations, which is apropos because I'm sure there's a tiny bit of tweaking going on in the comic books as well. 

 

Amazing Spider-Man 122 Cover Recreation

Recreating the cover of the iconic THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #122 (1973), featuring the aftermath of (SPOILER ALERT!) the death of Gwen Stacy, which culminates in (SPOILER ALERT AGAIN!) the death of Norman Osborn, aka Spidey's greatest villain, The Green Goblin. Original artwork by the great John Romita. 

More Spider-Man Cover Recreations

Two more SPIDER-MAN cover recreation commissions: AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #14, introducing the Green Goblin, and AMAZING SPIDER-MAN ANNUAL #2. Both originally drawn by Spidey's co-creator, Steve Ditko, and both released in 1964. 

Linus Loves Mankind

I was commissioned to recreate this iconic PEANUTS panel (from the strip dated November 12, 1959), one of my all-time favorites (and oft-quoted, along with SEINFELD's "People... They are the worst!"). The person who requested this wondered if I could do some kind of tweak along the lines of my Sluggo panel redux, but I said that there are some things I consider sacrosanct, and PEANUTS is one of them. I did move Linus up a bit in the art, so that his feet are not cut off as in the original comic strip, but other than that... how do you improve perfection? The most you can do is hope to pay tribute. 

Wonder Women

This is a recreation of a detail from the cover of WONDER WOMAN #142 (1963) by the classic team of Ross Andru & Mike Esposito, featuring Diana, Wonder Girl, Wonder Tot (ugh), and Queen Hippolyta. 

Sluggo is Bored.

I've been redrawing some of my favorite comic strip panels, sometimes giving slight tweaks. Now, let me say, there are some comic strips that I consider sacrosanct... my ire is stirred by appropriations of PEANUTS and CALVIN & HOBBES that place those characters in a context that I don't think Charles Schulz or Bill Watterson would ever choose. As you will see in another post along these lines, I did a commission of one of my favorite PEANUTS panels of all time, and the person for whom I did it asked if I could maybe give it some kind of modern update, to which I demurred. You don't mess with the Schulz. 

Now, Ernie Bushmiller, on the other hand... don't get me wrong, I love NANCY. I confess, I was one of those who dismissed the strip as bland toast UNTIL I read a whole bunch of strips collected. Suddenly, the crazy genius of the strip became evident, and I was a converted fan. Still, I don't think that Bushmiller's rather conservative mindset is necessarily something that needs to be preserved in amber, so I have no issue messing around with his stuff a little bit. There are two words added to Sluggo's word balloon in this recreation. I'll leave it to you to figure out which two (hint: "Beatnik" is not one of them). 

Firepit!

George Carlin