Kamandi Cover

I am trying to post at least once per day. Today…

Don’t really have anything so we are going to do a throw back.

I am trying to keep my posts to the general end of the world theme…

 

This is a piece of art I did way back when I first started drawing again. It is a sketch card of my favorite Jack Kirby comic. Kamandi #1. 

My Art – Jack Kirby Cover Recreation of Kamandi #1

If I had to pick a favorite comic series, it of course would be the Hulk. Coming in a close second though would be Jack Kirby’s end of the world comic Kamandi!

When I first started drawing again a number of years back one of the first things that I did was try my hand at recreating a Kirby cover from Kamandi.

Thought his Birthday would be a good day to re-post of that sketchcard image.

Happy 96th Birthday Jack Kirby

Jack Kirby.

One of the biggest names in comics, creator of a large corner of the Marvel Comics Universe, as well as his fair share of books over at DC.

He would have been 96 years old today.

Happy Birthday Mr. Kirby.

Mr. Kirby is one of my favorite artist and creators. Two of my favorite comics of all time Eternals at Marvel and Kamandi from DC are creations of his. Would have loved to have had the chance to have met him before he passed.

One of my favorite Jack Kirby Drawings:

A small selection of some of my Favorite Kirby Covers:

(Click on images to see full version)

 

 

Artist to Watch – Douglas Frey

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Douglas Frey goes by the screen name of Darkwaterfrey over on the Deviant Art page and produces some of the most amazingly detailed pieces. If I remember correctly I first stumbled upon Doug’s work while surfing through other people’s friends pages over on Livejournal, where for a long time I maintained a blog and followed others.

I think what probably got my interest the most was his series of Katmandi pictures. I am a HUGE Jack Kirby fan and his comic Kamandi is to this day one of my all time favorite works by him. When I saw Doug doing these pictures with a new take on the character I just had to keep watching in the hope of seeing more. Doug has since gone on to complete a whole story based on Katmandi which he then did a small print run of (Which reminds me, I never got around to ordering a copy of that… Have to get on that!)

The way in which Doug does his coloring is wonderful. In a world over run with digital coloring it is nice to see someone still creating in a good old fashion real medium! Water color is something that I have been playing around with as of late, so I know how hard it is to use. Doug makes it look perfect. He creates a level of excellance in these pages that I dream of reaching!

And 12 I just love!

And here are the 12 covers that are just big favorites of mine…

Here they are:

Howard the Duck #12
Hulk #1
Fantastic Four #49
Fantastic Four #72
Kamandi #1
Star Wars #15
Uncanny X-Men #141
Uncanny X-Men #264
Uncanny X-Men #268
Uncanny X-Men #274
Uncanny X-Men #277
X-Factor #1