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The Line it is Drawn, Try-Out Week 3
From now until the end of January, the following ten artists are going to be drawing weekly pieces while trying out to become a new member of The Line it is Drawn artist roster.
Read on for their first week’s worth of pieces, based on The Line it is Drawn theme week of “Cover Homages”!
To see what each of these artists did in their first two weeks, click here for a refresher’s course.
I’ll put them in alphabetical order based on the name of the Twitter user who made the suggestion that they used.
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B_Granderson suggested:
hulk choosing between earth and planet skaar, adam strange style
TWO of the artists chose this one!
Axel Medellin drew this one. His website is here.
Daniel Cox also drew this one. Here is his website.
BigMike20X6 suggested:
Bat-Mite & Larry the Titan on Batman & Robin #1
Cynthia “Thea” Rodgers drew this one. Her website is here.
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dc2omniverse suggested:
The Black Terror and Captain America Comics #1.
Jason Gonzalez drew this one. Here is his website.
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dc2omniverse suggested:
Namor and Sue Storm and Betty and Me #16.
Bill Walko drew this one. His website is here.
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KevinBrettauer suggested:
Fantastic Four vol. 1 #1 with Elijah, Jakita, Drums and Ambrose Chase against a giant Jacob Greene.
Phillip Sevy drew this one. Here is his website.
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starpilotsix suggested:
A la GL/GA #86: Scott Summers (in GL spot), Wolverine (GA), and Jubilee (Speedy)… “My old sidekick is a… vampire!”
Marco D’Alfonso drew this one. Here is his website.
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rmillikan11 suggested:
Tintin in Tibet with Rorschach, Nite Owl, Ozymandias and Bubastis.
John Trumbull drew this one. Here is his website.
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shurwitt suggested:
Homage to Flash #133 with Elektra being turned into a Muppet.
Yukinori Xum drew this one.
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therealAstrozac suggested:
Batman and Superman, with Robin as a pervert in a parody of Green Lantern/Green Arrow #85
Josh Gowdy drew this one. His website is here.
Holy crap, that was a lot of amazing artwork!
WOW!
Awesome stuff, everybody! This will be an astonishingly tough call in a few weeks!
27 Comments
Rob Schamberger
January 12, 2012 at 12:03 pm
Namor and Me for the wank, er, win.
John Trumbull
January 12, 2012 at 12:09 pm
I agree — WOW!!! Everyone really outdid themselves this week. A lot of great artwork up above, and I’m proud to be in their company.
AS
January 12, 2012 at 12:26 pm
Agreed, great pieces here. I am of course partial to the great job John Trumbull did of my suggestion but so many other greats too…
Peter
January 12, 2012 at 12:38 pm
Ha, I didn’t realize the try-out artists were using old suggestions/themes, so I’d already written off my Jubilee is a vampire suggestion off as unselected and pretty well forgotten it. It was a nice, and pleasant surprise to see it turn up! Lovely work, as were all the others!
Gus Casals
January 12, 2012 at 12:46 pm
Walko is my man, but I also loved the Elektra/Muppet
MJ
January 12, 2012 at 1:05 pm
Glad I’m not making the final decision. Great job, everyone!
Michael P
January 12, 2012 at 1:14 pm
“My Sidekick is a Vampire!” is brilliant.
Zach
January 12, 2012 at 1:27 pm
There is no way we could go wrong with these amazing Artists. Yukinori gets my vote based purely on the concept. They were all great.
Drancron
January 12, 2012 at 2:14 pm
Watchmen in Tibet is beautiful, but I love the Jubilee one – Deadpool and the copy of Twilight push it over the top.
John Trumbull
January 12, 2012 at 2:41 pm
Agreed, great pieces here. I am of course partial to the great job John Trumbull did of my suggestion but so many other greats too…
Thanks for the great suggestion, AS! It was a lot of fun to do, and I hope it met your expectations!
Bill Walko
January 12, 2012 at 4:05 pm
WOW, I’m in good company here. They are ALL great!
I particularly enjoyed Marco’s Vampire Jubilee (with all it’s fun little details), John’s Watchmen in Tibet (nicely rendered), Yukinori’s Elektra Muppet (the felt up gag –heh), and Josh’s “Robin is a pervert” (great expressions!)
John Trumbull
January 12, 2012 at 4:30 pm
I got a real kick out of your piece too, Bill! Very funny & nice clean rendering!
Robin reading R. Crumb comics in a wonderful idea for his perversion. And how hilarious is it that Elektra is being transformed into Janice from the Muppets in Yukinori Xum’s piece?
Big Mike
January 12, 2012 at 9:38 pm
So great, all of them! And gotta give Larry the Titan the love he deserves.
P. Boz
January 12, 2012 at 10:32 pm
And we couldn’t get regular submissions for a reader gallery??
Brian Cronin
January 12, 2012 at 11:47 pm
While I do find it weird that there wasn’t enough interest to keep the reader gallery going, being in a weekly spotlight feature like Line it is Drawn does give people more of a reason to contribute than they would with a monthly Reader Art Gallery.
Daryll B.
January 13, 2012 at 1:11 am
Brian good thing you have multiple weeks on this because ALL of these are quality….. Phillip Sevy’s Planetary is my number one only because I love the series and the ironic nature of using them as the Fantastic Four, given the way that a darker version ended up butting heads with them over the series run.
Phillip Sevy
January 13, 2012 at 6:23 am
Thanks Daryll! I agree. Of all the suggestions, this one was just too cool to pass up. Planetary is amazing and deserves 800 times more praise and coverage – ha!
Icefalcon
January 13, 2012 at 8:01 am
Axel Medellin was my favourite here. really cool piece of work, but not the onyl one by far.
Another Ian
January 13, 2012 at 10:23 am
Wowzers. That was one of the best Line it is Drawn sets ever…
Dominic
January 13, 2012 at 11:49 am
My god, blown away by how good these are. The suggestions themselves were strong which helps.
Bill and Yukinori get gold stars for double-entendreness, filthy stuff!
If nothing else I suspect you artists should see some commissions out of these.
I’m so seeing a possible Calvin and Hobbes-Tintin re-cover from John. Or maybe Supergirl and Streaky…
Basara
January 13, 2012 at 11:53 am
You know, as if Jubilee as a vampire isn’t interesting enough, it’s actually got me wondering what Deadpool (both the character and his powerset/weaknesses) would be like if he’d been turned…..
John Trumbull
January 13, 2012 at 12:51 pm
If nothing else I suspect you artists should see some commissions out of these.
I’m so seeing a possible Calvin and Hobbes-Tintin re-cover from John. Or maybe Supergirl and Streaky…
I’d be up for that, Dominic. Feel free to hit me up through my Deviant Art page.
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January 16, 2012 at 8:03 am
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Sam
January 16, 2012 at 6:54 pm
Got give to Bat-mite and Larry!
Hector
January 17, 2012 at 8:19 pm
WHoa! These guys were drawing like mad men! Pencils,Inks,Color,Text and all that jazz!
buttler
January 17, 2012 at 11:35 pm
Man, these are great. The funny thing is that I thought, “Elektra turned into a muppet! How random and awesome.” — having totally forgotten that I suggested it. The inclusion of the Ringmaster and Abby Cadabby is pretty inspired. Namor and Me is pretty hilarious, too.
PyroTwilight
January 19, 2012 at 12:25 pm
Great stuff here. The first piece was absolutely great but the creator made the small error of calling the planet Skaar and not Sakaar. Skaar is what Hulk’s son calls himself after the planet, making a small spelling error and sticking with it.