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08-27-2013, 06:57 PM
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Sey hallo to my lille fren!
Join Date: Aug 2013
Posts: 115
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Setting the Standard in Comics!!
Long time lurker, first time poster.
Started collecting comic art, mainly commissions a couple years ago, focusing on those old GoldenAge characters who fell into the public domain.
Or, as my CAF page ( http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryD...asp?GCat=56510) says:
"The composition of vast books is a laborious .. experience. To go on for five hundred pages developing an idea whose perfect oral exposition is possible in a few minutes. A better course of procedure is to pretend that these books already exist, and then to offer a resume, a commentary."
-- Author Jorge Luis Borges
Or, What If "Standard Comics" published comics full of long forgotten superheroes, alongside real world DC and Marvel throughout the Golden-Silver-Bronze-Modern Ages?
Here's the latest one:
http://www.comicartfans.com/galleryp...?piece=1040988
And one of the earliest:
http://www.comicartfans.com/galleryp...p?piece=812999
Follow the links in the descriptions to see how they tie together.
Roygbiv666
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08-27-2013, 08:13 PM
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Hellboy
Join Date: Mar 2011
Posts: 824
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Very cool, I've actually seen a lot of your stuff lately as I've been checking out everything Mitch has done thats posted to CAF
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08-28-2013, 01:30 AM
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The quickest way to double your money is to fold it in half and put it back in your pocket.
Join Date: Mar 2013
Posts: 1,426
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Roy, I have been following you around CAF too. Your themes and commissioned pieces are awesome. I swear you must have Mitch Ballard on retainer. Hard to sneak a commission from him in. Great stuff man!
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08-28-2013, 06:38 AM
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Sey hallo to my lille fren!
Join Date: Aug 2013
Posts: 115
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Ha! Yah, he is awesome and I obviously like his work.
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Originally Posted by rjs1162
Roy, I have been following you around CAF too. Your themes and commissioned pieces are awesome. I swear you must have Mitch Ballard on retainer. Hard to sneak a commission from him in. Great stuff man!
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08-28-2013, 09:02 AM
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Hellfire Club
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: chicago
Posts: 4,163
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welcome to the boards!
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08-28-2013, 09:55 PM
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42.7 percent of all statistics are made up on the spot.
Join Date: Aug 2011
Posts: 164
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Glad to see m'man Roy here. Welcome!!
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08-29-2013, 09:24 PM
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Sey hallo to my lille fren!
Join Date: Aug 2013
Posts: 115
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Quote:
Originally Posted by DamonO
Glad to see m'man Roy here. Welcome!!
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Thanks, Damon.
For Damon's love of the obscure ...
http://www.comicartfans.com/galleryp...p?piece=733235
This is my own "Project Rooftop: Retrofix" type of thing, an update of Better/Standard/Nedor's Grim Reaper. I now tend to think of these PD characters like "there but for the grace of god goes Superman or Batman or Captain America". Sure, a lot of the guys disappeared because there wasn't much to them, but if they'd had the chance to continue and develop through the 50s-60s-etc, they might be on kids' knapsacks today, along with Hulk and Iron Man, etc.
Well, that's the theory anyway.
I gave artist Mitch Ballard some (very) rough sketches and he went above and beyond to deliver this great Who's Who/OHOTMU type drawing.
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08-29-2013, 11:13 PM
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42.7 percent of all statistics are made up on the spot.
Join Date: Aug 2011
Posts: 164
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It is in part because of the excellent work that Mitch Ballard has done for you that I've decided to commission him to do something for me. Incidentally, the work that he and you have done on public domain characters is outstanding.
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08-30-2013, 07:27 AM
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Crush Mod
Super Moderator
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: once in SD now in NC
Posts: 8,869
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welcome to the boards man
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Recasters suck big time!
Banning is what i do best!!!!
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09-01-2013, 01:15 PM
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Sey hallo to my lille fren!
Join Date: Aug 2013
Posts: 115
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A fun Hembeck one:
http://www.comicartfans.com/galleryp...?piece=1025071
Roll Call (l. to r.):
Top Row:
Detective Eye, AirMan, Hydroman,Green Giant
Middle Row:
Fantomah, American Crusader, Magno, Lightning Girl, Lash Lightning, Green Lama, Daredevil, TNT Todd, Amazing-Man, Duke of Darkness, Black Terror, Grim Reaper
Bottom Row:
Commander Steel, Black Orchid, The Clock, The Face, Nelvana of the Northern Lights, Silver Streak, The Penguin, The Flag, Fearless Flint, The Raven, Woman in Red, Doc Strange
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