Bootsgate

 

Great Pumpkin Cels Redux

 

Agent Jeffries Stardust

A mashup of David Bowie's character from TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME, Agent Jeffries, with his character Ziggy Stardust. 

 

PEPNUTS (or, The Peanuts / Archie Mashup)

As someone who loves both Peanuts and old Archie Comics (up through the late '70s), I wanted to pay tribute to both with this mashup, based on the cover of PEP #287 (March, 1974) originally by Dan DeCarlo. It's semi-successful, I think. I mean, let's face it... Reggie and Shermy are one and the same. 

 

The Joker #1 Cover Recreation

 After Dick Giordano (with some alterations to the original)

Even More Spider-Man Cover Recreations

 Yup, I got more Spidey cover commissions! It's only a matter of time until I have the Ditko / Romita eras covered (so to speak)! Here's THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #23 (originally by Steve Ditko) and #114 (by John Romita). 

SUPERMAN #261 Redux... Twice!

Nick Cardy's cover to DC's SUPERMAN #261 (Feb., 1973) is a perfect capsule of the oft-unintentionally bizarre quality of Bronze Age comics. I don't think the editor intended to publish the kinkiest superhero cover of 1973 (and maybe it's not, I haven't done the research), but Boy, Howdy! 

Anyway, I've been wanting to tackle a redo of this cover for a long time, and I ended up doing two different versions, one entirely hand-drawn, using a mish-mash of generational trade dress and swapping the Superman logo for its sister title, ACTION COMICS. After I finished drawing it, I had second thoughts about replacing the original logo, so I did a second version with Illustrator / Photoshop elements for color and cover elements. So... here they both are. Lemme know which one you prefer in the comments. 

The Black Widow (No, Not That One)

Is it technically a #POOC if it's a Splash Page? Would #SPOOC be more apt? Probably not. Well, whatever it's called, here's an interpretation of the Mike Sekowsky / George Klein splash from the Black Widow (no, not that one) tale, "Murder, Unlimited" from Timely's USA COMICS #5 in 1942. 

More #POOCs

Another round of Panels Out of Context / Comic book panel recreations: The Spectre (after Bernard Baily, whose name I misspelled in the signature, oops), Sabrina (after Al Hartley), and Johnny Thunder's Magic Thunderbolt giving the Justice Society of America the big pink boot (after Mike Sekowsky)! All of these are pretty faithful to the source material, honest! 

 

Bullets and Bracelets

 

Freakies

Millennials and post-Millennials have no idea how important breakfast cereal was to the Saturday morning routines of generations of kids from the 1950s through the '80s. F'rinstance, we never, ever found out who grew the Freakies tree. 

Cereal Monsters Print Set!

PLUG TIME: New in the Etsy shop: A set of five 5.25 x 6.75" digital mini-prints of all five Cereal Monster drawings. Plus new stuff all the time. I'm working on a bunch of new pieces RIGHT NOW! Well, not right now, right now I'm posting this, but you know. 

 

AJ Lambert, Lonely Songs EP

 As a giant fan of Frank Sinatra, it was a thrill to be asked to design the cover to AJ Lambert's LONELY SONGS, a limited edition vinyl EP of four songs from her grandfather's classic album, SINATRA SINGS FOR ONLY THE LONELY. For the full story and more artwork, see the corresponding post on Tough Guy II. And go order the EP here! 

Cap'n Crunch & the Crunch Berry Beast

 

Cereal Monsters II

 Following up a series I did in 2013 of General Mill's unholy trinity of cereal monsters (being, of course, Count Chocula, Frankenberry, and Boo Berry), here are the two lesser-known follow-up mascots, Fruit Brute and Yummy Mummy. Geez, these things were heavily weighted towards fruit flavors.... What, they couldn't do, say, Corn Creature (from the Black Lagoon), Peanut Butter Robot, or Bran Kong? 

Vultures (another Peanuts #POOC)

 

Battlestar Galactica Wrapper Redux

 

The Legion of Faux-Batmen

 This piece is based (loosely) on the cover of DETECTIVE COMICS #165, replacing alternate Batman costumes with the four Batmen below, all based on bootleg Batman action figures from various countries. I love off-model toys, so this was fun to do, even if I had to narrow the roster down to only four! 

HRC

 

Bell Bottoms