Week 17: Free Comic Book Day

 

Image by Jameson Campbell

This week we're teaming up with our pals at Carol And John's Comic Book Shop to celebrate one of our favorite holidays: Free Comic Book Day.  Each year, publishers and comic shops give out comic books absolutely free of charge!  That's better than a turkey dinner, and The Avengers could beat up Santa Claus any day of the week.

Who better to introduce this week than the owner of Carol And John's. Cleveland's comic book stalwart:  John Dudas. 

The Challenge is this, to create a comic book cover for one of Marvel Comics Blank Variants using any Marvel character you like! Marvel Blank Variants are special editions of popular titles that have a cardstock cover and only a logo on the front. The intention is to take the book to a comic convention and have an artist you like draw you a sketch on the cover. These can be as simple or elaborate as you want. It's sort of extra cool when the logo blends in with your drawing. These books will be used to enhance the spendor that is Free Comic Book Day at Carol and John's Comic Book Shop. All books will be on display for the entire event with your name and any website you'd like to link to your art under it. At the end of the event we will raffle the covers off after dicumenting them. We get about 1,000 people passing through our doors in under 24 hours. You also get a free pass to Dr. Sketchy, and we're also going to send out an email to our 2,000 plus mailing list thanking you guys for being true supporters of FCBD in Cleveland. It sounds like I'm trying to sell the perks, but the reality is I'm just very grateful that you've all choosen to help spread art and Keep Cleveland in Comic Books! Excelsior!

 

 

Week 16: Rust Belt... IN SPACE!!

Told you I was a little obsessed with the Hubble Space Photos...

All done in Illustrator!

Week 15: That deaf dumb and blind girl sure plays a mean pinba...er... Roller Derby

Just don't call her Roller Derby Barbie

 

I had a blast with this one! ... For some reason I had "Pinball Wizard" running through my head whenever I worked on it...

This is all in Illustrator. I used it as an Artclub demo last week and have been working on it bit by bit since then (hence the lateness). Ben Hale took this picture of us when I started.

Art nerds who get to show off are happy art nerds!

BTW... Totally digging the Hubble Space photos right now. I want to put galaxies in everything... including my outfits. The fantastic thing is that all the Hubble photos are free to download and use from the Hubble Website. Awesome! Thanks NASA!

Week 16: Crider's Dusty Logo

Left to my own devices, I color everything like it came out on Man's Ruin fifteen years ago.

Week 16: Ben - It Came From Beneath The City

Referenced a bunch of Hugh Ferriss architecture and tried to give it a classic movie feel.  A lot of fun with this one.  Can't wait to have all of these printed out.

See a "quick work in progress" here: Link


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Week 16: Craig: the rustening

Wk 13: Drawn n' Quartered!

The RBMC formed like Voltron for this years Drawn N Quartered flyer. It's an event you don't want to miss! http://www.facebook.com/events/375005312523760/

Tim W16: RBMC Logo!

Tim's kick ass "Heavy Metal"(I can totally imagine this a a patch sewn on a sleeveless jean jacket in 1987, and I think that is rad)  logo colors!