Dirty River

A collection of pictures about Comics, Books, Paperbacks, Pulp, Private Eyes, Writers, Bookshelves, Film Noir, Beautiful Ladies, Vintage things, Nautical Silliness & Music

[kalelsonofkrypton]

Wonder Woman #46, Mar-Apr 1951, cover by Irwin Hasen.

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"Acid Dropper" by Steve Catron. Concert poster for the Grateful Dead, Chuck Berry and Curly Cook's Hurdy Gurdy Band appearing at the Carousel Ballroom over the weekend of March 29-31, 1968.

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Brian Haberlin (American, born 1963)

Pygmalion, 2025

Watercolor on paper

21 × 14 in (53.3 × 35.6 cm)

Private collection

[naamahdarling]

Watercolor??????

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“Pygmalion” 21” x 14” watercolor with wax varnish

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Archie #19, June 2017, written by Mark Waid, art by Pete Woods

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Altered States: Warlords #2, cover by Joseph Michael Linsner

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Catwoman #89, cover by W. Scott Forbes

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Batwoman #5, cover by W. Scott Forbes

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This has been a very special Fred week on the Archie comic strip.

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Large Feature Comic #16

Dell, 1941

Collection of Donald Duck daily strips by Al Taliaferro. Cover by Taliaferro.

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Barbe-Rouge #1-5

Dargaud , 1961-1965, France

By Jean-Michel Charlier and Victor Hubinon. Covers by Hubinon.

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French poster for Brides of Dracula, 1960. Artwork by Joseph Koutachy.

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The Witching Hour #66-68

DC, 1976-1977

Covers by Jack Sparling ?, Ernie Chan & Vince Colletta, and Rich Buckler & Colletta, respectively.

Includes work by Frank Carrillo, E. R. Cruz, José Delbo, Buddy Gernale, George Kashdan, Abe Ocampo, Ernie Patricio, Frank Redondo, Carl Wessler, and Ruben Yandoc.

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I remember buying the French translation of those issues in Il est minuit... l'heure des sorcières 2, 1982, when I was 14 because that cover was neat and being seriously unimpressed by the stories inside.

I appreciate DC's '70s horror comics much more these days than when I was a teen.

[jhsharman]

Hocus Focus

I assume Veronica's skirt gets shortened as well, but we never get a shot of it. We do see the change in hair, though.

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Alan Moore: "Finally, an adaptation that gets it"

[evandorkin]

how do you draw? do you have a sketching process for it or do you just freehand it.

sorry for sending so many asks. this doesnt mean im going to syop sending them. youre my favorite 60 year old man (may change in the future)

For "work" drawings I usually do rough layouts in blue pencil on sketch paper, and refine the lines with red pencil. Sometimes I do a series of sketches before I'm happy with a layout. I tighten the rough drawing up in HB or B/2B pencil. I take the rough and put it on a lightpad to trace the drawing onto bristol board. I ink the pencils with Tombow pens and other tools. Layouts are where you figure out the structure of the figures, backgrounds, props, etc, and the overall composition.

If I'm just drawing for the hell of it or working on a pinup or whatever, I might skip doing a rough layout and just work it out on the board. Light pencil lines, scribbles to place things, a loose structural pencil drawing that gets tightened up further in darker pencil before inking. The thing is to "plot out" the drawing, like a building needs a structure, a figure needs a structure, laying out figures and forms before tightening lines and shapes. Not just drawing everything out without a plan, starting a head and not knowing where the body is going to be or how it will be posed, that's how we draw when we're starting out. But you need to work out the under drawing, a skeleton frame or series of shapse to ground the finished figure or object. There's tutorials all over youtube showing how artists approach layout and structure for their artwork. Far better artists than I am, to boot.

[evandorkin]

Hello, Mr. Evan! Sorry if my English is very basic, but I have a question for you, more artistic than anything. How was your process for achieving such exaggerated and shaded art? Honestly, I love the evolution of your art style, and I'd love to create one with as much personality as yours! Likewise, your style, especially the exaggeration of acne, facial lines and expressions with that messy but hegemonic lineart have helped me a lot to progress artistically and in some way with some of my insecurities when trying to make self-portraits imitating your style! So, I really appreciate your art. Gretting from Chile! ♡

Thanks for the kind words regarding my artwork. The texturing and patterns and the like in the Eltingville comics come from influences such as Will Elder's old MAD art, as far as expressions and detail goes. And there are other influences in the mix, your style develops from copying artists you like when you're young, these eventually meld into a style that becomes your own. The trick is to not borrow so much from anyone that your work just looks like theirs, as a clone. You want to develop your own mature style. It can take a long time, but if you keep drawing, a style will develop. You have to consciously try not to make it too much like a favorite artist, otherwise you'll always look like a xerox, even if it's a talneted copy of the other artist. At some point you either develop a credible style or you'll always be a copy. I can't tell you where all the elements of my style come from, but it's a mixture of elements that combined into what you see in my comics. You then hone and work on your style further in order to address the needs of your stories or work. You're not always thinking about it, some of it happens over time as your personality shapes your style. I like to exaggerate expressions and really "sell" my characters emotions, I don't like to draw tight-lipped, close-mouthed characters like you see in a lot of DC/Marvel art. I have a cartoonier style, less exact anatomy, more expressive and over the top. It's a mix of 60s/70s Marvel Comics (esp Jack Kirby), Mad Magazine, Peanuts, Love and Rockets, animation/anime, punk/new wave imagery, monster movie magazines and more. Your art is your life + personality + influences. Personality and life experience are what differentiates your work from other people, who may have similar influences. Personality is a lot of what sets artists and styles apart.

[kalelsonofkrypton]

Action Comics #153, February 1951, cover by Win Mortimer.