Comic Art Commission

[Roygbiv666]

Hehe, suddenly I'm picturing an all 'Green Team' commission!  

Green Lama
Green Sorceress
Green Giant
Green Turtle
Green Dragon
Green Light
Green Jet
Green Ghost
Green Knight
Green Mask II
Green Ghoul
Green Ghost (Text)
Green Ghost (Villain)
Green Ghost (Hero)

[Roygbiv666]

In keeping with this particular response, I'm lookin' for some ideas for fake comic covers from the Golden to Bronze Age. I'm trying to create fake covers for the "Standard Comics Universe" as if all these PD charcters never became PD, but continuted to be published from Golden Age to today (although my focus tends to end in the early 1980s when I stopped collecting in real life).

I was thinking mainly team books (to maximize the number of characters) that depict certain recurring themes (or cliches, depending on your charitibility) like:
a hero dies (apparently)
hero(es) defeated (apparently)
traitor!
"let's all run towards the viewer"
strike a pose - heroes pose for a picture
monitor screen - a bunch of characters's heads on monitor screens

Anything else?

IDEAS?? But not of the "include this character" type, just concepts.

If you plan to recreate a "Silver Age" feel for any of these covers, you can't go wrong following Julius Schwartz's top five cover formulas:
5. Show the planet Earth in danger.
4. Show duplicate superheroes fighting themselves.
3. Show superheroes fighting each other or in competition.
2. Command the reader.
and most importantly of all...
1. A gorilla doing something un-gorillalike.

(List taken from Julius Schwartz's autobiography: "Man of Two Worlds")

[narfstar]

large villain with many small heroes

[Yoc]

The old classic Avengers and JLA covers with all the portraits around a central action image.
Or there is the JLA vs Starro and FF vs the Mole Man from FF#1 that has been done as a parody dozens of times.
That Pep Comics with Archie on the shoulders of Hangman and The Shield is another worthy of a parody.

-Yoc

[Roygbiv666]

How's this for a Silver/Bronze Age type villain:

Cyborilla, half ape, half whatever mechanical device he wants to be - in this case, a sort of flying saucer with menacing mechanical arms, etc?

Think he can be both a funny Silver Age villain AND yet still be menacing in the Bronze Age.

And, also "Cyb" + "orilla" I find hilarious!

I'm trying to attach an image, but .... who knows 

[Yoc]

Cute!  He'd fit in fine at DC.

[Roygbiv666]

Yes! Maybe I'll do a Silver Age cover AND a Bronze Age cover...

Cute!  He'd fit in fine at DC.

[Yoc]

He could be a nice Kirby SA monster, sure!

[Roygbiv666]

New stuff:
http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryPiece.asp?Piece=805625&GSub=107702

and a couple in the works ...

[Yoc]

Ha!  Very cool Roy.  A nice SA DC feel to it for sure.

[Yoc]

Hey Roy, you gotta see this guy and his amazing artist jam commissions!
Just an incredible variety of artists.  
http://thedorkreview.blogspot.com/2011/05/omg-check-out-jams.html

The rest of the blog is pretty cool too with a few other commissions, etc.

-Yoc

[Roygbiv666]

"If I were a rich man ..." Sad that so many of them are now gone. Don Newton was seriously overlooked.

On a cheerier note:

http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryPiece.asp?Piece=812999&GSub=107702

heh heh - "Cyborilla"!

Hey Roy, you gotta see this guy and his amazing artist jam commissions!
Just an incredible variety of artists.  
http://thedorkreview.blogspot.com/2011/05/omg-check-out-jams.html

The rest of the blog is pretty cool too with a few other commissions, etc.

-Yoc

[Yoc]

Wow, does that look like a current AC Comics comic Roy!
A very nice SA feel to the cover - I'd read it for sure!


Yeah, there were a Lot of comic greats on those commissions that are sadly not with us anymore.  I knew you'd enjoy seeing those.  The blog itself is full of interesting stuff.

[Roygbiv666]

The Great Canadian Whites ...

http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryPiece.asp?Piece=815889&GSub=107702

[Yoc]

Bravo!
Super commission Roy, of course being Canadian I'm slightly prejudiced.