CSBG Archive
The Line it is Drawn #9 – Comic Book Characters and Literary Characters
Let’s get the standard stuff out of the way.
You should follow Comics Should Be Good on Twitter (if you have Twitter, that is – if you don’t, you can go sign up). Here is our Twitter page… http://twitter.com/csbg. And here are the Comics Should Be Good writers who are on Twitter (the links go to the person’s Twitter account) – myself, Chad Nevett, Kelly Thompson, Sonia Harris Danielle Leigh, Melinda Beasi and Michelle Smith!
The blog’s Twitter account updates whenever a new post is put up on the blog, so it’s an easy way to keep up with the blog (I also do original content on our Twitter account). Plus, if we reach 2,000 followers, I’ll do an extra edition of Comic Book Legends Revealed the week we hit 2,000. At 3,000 followers, I will do another Month of Greatest Stories Ever Told!
Now on to the bit!
So every week, I ask a question here. You reply to it on our Twitter page (just write @csbg with your reply) and our SIX blog sketch artists will each pick one of your suggestions and I will post them here every week. So every week you will have a new question and you will see the top six choices from the previous week
To qualify, you have to be following us when you reply – so go follow us and then give your answer to the following question/challenge (all suggestions due by 11:59 PM Eastern on Thursday, September 30th):
This week’s topic is – place a notable comic book character in a genre different from their normal genre (for example, stuff like Green Lantern Noir or Romance Wolverine)
Read on for the four (I’m afraid due to some scheduling pile-ups, it is just four artists this week) sketches that came about courtesy of the last question/challenge:
Either team-up or mash-up a comic book character with a famous character from prose literature. Batman and Captain Ahab, stuff like that).
Enjoy!
All copyright and trademarks of the following characters are held by their respective owners!
Both BlackKnight75 AND skippertommy suggested:
Nemo and Namor/ Namor and 20,000 Leagues Beneath the Sea
George Zapata is the artist for this one. Here is his website.
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JonathanBeckner suggested:
Ron Perlman
fight:Beauty+the Beasts Beast vs.Hellboy.
Rafael Desquitado is the artist for this one (he even threw in the X-Men’s Beast!). Here is his website.

Werbals suggested:
Squirrel Girl meets Lenny from “Of Mice and Men.”
Brad Millette is the artist for this one. Here is his website.
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Werbals ALSO suggested:
Edgar Allan Poe meets Raven from Teen Titans
Caanan Grall is the artist for this one. Here is his website.
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Thanks so much to the artists and the suggestion-givers! Now everyone head off to Twitter and give them some good options for next week!









25 Comments
Oz the Malefic
September 29, 2010 at 4:47 am
Excellent work all.
Brad’s work is amazingly endearing.
And I won’t say anything of Caanan’s due to fear of being a creepy stalker…. Though I do have you book on preorder now Caanan.
Philip
September 29, 2010 at 4:51 am
All amazing jobs. Too bad there were only 4 this week because these leave me wanting more.
Rafael’s Beast (X-Men) is drop dead awesome.
NoMoreDucks
September 29, 2010 at 4:55 am
Great job again everybody. The one that stands out most this week (to me at least) is Canaan. Just awesome!
joe
September 29, 2010 at 5:00 am
Every time I see one of Canaan’s pieces, I’m CONVINCED that he’s the guy who does Cursed Pirate Girl, and then I google it and find out he isn’t.
It’s really nice stuff.
Brad
September 29, 2010 at 5:05 am
Thanks, Oz!
And yeah, Caanan really nailed it this week. Poe and Raven’s expressions are priceless.
caanan
September 29, 2010 at 5:15 am
Aw, shame there’s only four this week, but great stuff, guys!
And thanks, Joe! I consider that a great compliment, as I LOVE Cursed Pirate Girl. Sadly, it is not me. Happily, it is Jeremy Bastian, and I believe he’s trying to raise funds on kickstarter for a beautifully bound complete Cursed Pirate Girl collection, on nice, heavy old paper and everything. As it should be.
And, thanks, Oz! I hope it doesn’t disappoint.
It’s out two weeks from today actually. Yay!
Brad
September 29, 2010 at 5:20 am
Caanan, could you send me the info about your book? I’d like to get a copy as well.
Hanselthelost
September 29, 2010 at 5:23 am
George Zapata your colors are gorgeous as always. Caanan has a book coming out? Interesting.
Joe Rice
September 29, 2010 at 6:28 am
Good stuff. I’m going nuts on twitter now, because I just remembered I could.
Caanan Grall’s Edgar Allan Poe and the Raven « Roberson's Interminable Ramble
September 29, 2010 at 6:41 am
[...] his Occasional Comics Disorder blog for a while now and really enjoying it, but it took a post on Comics Should Be Good to compell me to talk about his work here. The post was part of their ongoing art challenge [...]
Big Mike
September 29, 2010 at 7:01 am
I have to laugh, I suggested Raven/Edgar Allen Poe /last/ week (as a historical figure)
Big Mike
September 29, 2010 at 7:09 am
Also, glad to see a Squirrel Girl pic (love that floofy tailed girl)
Apodaca
September 29, 2010 at 7:50 am
It’s a tie for me between Caanan and Brad. Both pieces just exude personality and tell a nice story with one image. Great stuff, guys.
John J
September 29, 2010 at 8:08 am
But isn’t the Disney “Beast” the wrong one? For a Perlman face-off with Hellboy it should be from the tv series with Linda Hamilton as the background character. That series is mostly forgotten I guess, but Perlman did play that Beast.
Michael Hoskin
September 29, 2010 at 8:18 am
The Squirrel Girl/Lenny and Beasts/Hellboy pictures were cute, but that Raven/Poe image hit it out of the park. Well done!
Sijo
September 29, 2010 at 8:18 am
Umm… I’m not so impressed this time, sad to say.
I don’t get the Namor one (where is Nemo? Or the Nautilus? Is it supposed to be that fish thing in the back?)
Why are the Beasts fighting Hellboy? He’s a good guy!
Now, the last two were funny, though the Raven in Titans cartoon almost never smiled so it doesn’t quite look like her.
Still, artistically very good job overall, and yes I agree Canaan’s the best again (he does seem to have great flexibility of art styles, not to mention fun ideas!)
T.
September 29, 2010 at 9:08 am
I liked them all, but Canaan and Brad’s were my favorite. I didn’t know Canaan had a book. I too will order it.
Julian
September 29, 2010 at 9:49 am
I love that last one.
donmilliken
September 29, 2010 at 10:30 am
The less than usual drawings is of course disappointing, but what we got is of the same super high quality as always. Nice work, guys!
buttler
September 29, 2010 at 1:04 pm
Oh man, that’s so Raven.
Joe Rice
September 29, 2010 at 1:54 pm
Oh, buttler. I can’t believe I didn’t think of that. Kudos, sir. KUDOS.
sgt pepper
September 29, 2010 at 4:49 pm
Even more Raven than that is Namor discovering that the ocean floor is female.
Jay Tea
September 29, 2010 at 7:58 pm
One year at the Shore Leave convention costume contest, Peter David’s daughter came out dressed as Beauty from the Disney cartoon, dancing with the Beast. Then another person (Mrs. PAD, I believe) came out as Vincent and cut in. They danced while Beast 1 fumed. Then PAD himself came out as Dr. Henry McCoy from X-Men III and cut in again. Beauty & The Beast & The Beast & The Beast.
Somewhere on the web there are pictures…
J.
Daniel
September 30, 2010 at 7:02 pm
Damn i wanted so badly to do a piece for this one!!
lets hope the schedule clears up soon! i’ll definitely try to get one out for next week before NYCC!
this week’s entry’s are freakin” awesome, btw. classy all around. Loved that Namor piece to death!
Scott
October 18, 2010 at 12:14 pm
I thought that Beast was going to be the Ron Perlman Beast, not the Disney one.