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Vision and SW commission

9/18/2020

This was commission that I received a ways back and only recently finished. The rough is pretty "comprehensive", as they say but I changed the spacing of the elements and decluttered things a bit. Those sci-fi pillars are there for design purposes mainly: The Vision is looking upward (maybe having a vision of the SW) and I wanted to have something moving the viewer's eye up... an upward thrusting. And I wanted to have a dream like quality to the environment, and hence, keep things vague. So instead of trying to draw a lab or something like that, I opted for free-floating pieces of machinery that might suggest the Vision's android nature. [Quick marker rough below, followed by final piece]

Crack at cover for Defenders #123

6/23/2020

Way back when (early 70s) I was talking to renowned comics writer/artist Howard Chaykin in his upstart studio about my inability to increase my work speed. He suggested that I pick up some cover assignments at Marvel because covers paid rate and a half, as well as having high visibility. Seemed like a pretty persuasive argument for digging up some cover assignments.

By coincidence, the next time I dropped by editor Carl Potts' office, he was struggling with the layout for a Defenders cover. I causally asked if he would be interested in having me take a crack at it. He had me look the script over and, sitting on his office couch, doodled out a rough for the cover above. (I wish things always worked so smoothly in the comics world.)

He had Bill Sienkievicz do the inking. I was a bit skeptical of the decision since Bill's approach is/was radically different than mine but really liked the result.

See the printed cover

Half Shark Alligator, Half Man

11/16/2019

photo of shark alligator man beer label from jackie o's with art by sandy plunkett

Jim asked Sandy about the Jackie O's beer label he saw on the back of a door at the Tap Room location in Athens, Ohio

Sandy:
There is no real story behind this one.

Brad [former Jackie O's head brewer] sent me an email one day with the idea for the label already worked out (shark/alligator/man). He thought my comics background would make me a good choice for the art.

For some reason, I never asked him why, all he wanted from me was the drawing of the creature: no lettering, no coloring.
The design and the computer coloring were handled by Kevin Morgan.

That thing in "his" hand is supposed to be a knife. (I guessed it was an ice pick — Jim)

January 10, 2020 update:
Sandy: Here's the b+w art for that beer label.

image of black and white artwork by Sandy Plunkett

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