Thursday, September 1, 2011

CONAN vs HERCULES !



I was inspired recently to whip up an homage to Jack Kirby....being that Charles R. Rutledge from " Singular points " and I were mentioning that Jack Kirby never really had any CONAN material out there. So I too pulled a Rich Buckler/Ron Frenz and swiped/borrowed a couple of poses to draw up this HOMAGE to CONAN and KIRBY in honor of his Birthday recently Aug 28.

I was thinking after I drew it...man this needs some color and thought to myself " Hmm I've been working on a side project with Cromsblood...but he has a child on the way and he's very busy as of late. Then I remembered the Rudy Nebres " One minute later " piece from several posts back and how Mike Dominic from AIM comics producers of " The Brutal blade of BRUNO the BANDIT " colored in the artwork the very next day...it was an internet smash and can be found in several places...( Folks that was Mike Dominic who colored that in ) So I asked "DOM" if he would not mind doing this fun little side job for me. Sure enough the very next day VOILA!

I could not be prouder..thank you "DOM" You did a great job coloring and adding text to my piece! You are a great artist! I hope you folks out there like it. I'm very proud.

4 comments:

Cromsblood said...

"but he has a child on the way"

Who me? I thought it was just beer gut.

Mike D. said...

" Shhh...it looks good as long as you don't tuck your shirt in."

Anonymous said...

Conan by Jack Kirby

http://ultimateconanfan.blogspot.com/2009/11/conan-art-by-jack-kirby.html

-Michael T.

Mike D. said...

Yes thank you. That drawing was mentioned in one of the earlier comment postings. That one and the HEROES abd VILLAINS sketchbook as well as Giant Size CONAN 5...I was creating an Homage and lamenting that it is too bad that he did not do an entire comic book story. Then I created the MOCK cover right after...