Jack Kirby Birthday

Jack Kirby was born August 28, 1917 so I took a pencil image I did a year ago and finished it up in Illustrator. I was lucky enough to me Mr. Kirby a few times and once even at his home thanks to my old friend Britt Wisenbaker. Anyways I had a blast creating this and happy birthday Mr. Kirby in the great beyond!!!

 

"Villain"- Group Show

I have two paintings in a group art show called "Villain" that is curated by artist Ben Collison. His site is bencollison.com There is an opening Friday March 9th 7-10 PM. I will be there the whole time so come by and say hi if you are in the SF Bay area. I also will be selling prints. Here is a bit of a preview of one of my paintings and a list of artists at the show.

Batmite!

I saw the final episode today of one of my more recent favorite animated shows BATMAN THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD. It was a show that really had fun, was very creative and really hit the beats so well! I am one of those types that likes all types of Batman stories and this show went with the more cheerful and fun story lines with the Batman character. The final episode had Batmite manipulating things and it was a blast as usual! So adios to this version of Batman as it was a fun and interesting ride! In honor of this show and the Batmite character himself I creating this image posted below here in Illustrator today.

Where has drawrick been?

I was hoping to keep a steady 2 postings a month or more going on, but here we are in October so I missed posting in August and September. Hey they say time flies, but this is ridiculous! So a few things that kept me busy were the San Diego Comic Con, a family reunion in New York, finally wrapping up and publishing my comic book DOCBOT, The Alternative Press Expo. In the mix was also some on site storyboard/presentation drawing at GYRO an ad/media agency. So finally I got back to this blog. In this posting is my FANTASTIC FOUR image I created for the 42nd COMIC-CON INTERNATIONAL: SAN DIEGO SOUVENIR BOOK. 

Also I am posting a picture of my DOCBOT comic the was co-created by Michael V. Bennett. http://bennettblacklight.com/

For more on DOCBOT....http://docbotcomicbook.blogspot.com/

Now back to creating and in addition looking for more work. Cheers!

 

Wonder Woman!

 A Wonder Woman drawing I had started some months back and finished in Illustrator recently.

MARCH MODOK MADNESS

I really dig this MARCH MODOK MADNESS blog big time seeing I like all Kirby creations and his MODOK one always left an impression on me. A few years ago I created a homage character to MODOK I named Maximillon pictured above. Well now I have christened him retroactively FOMODOK or father of MODOK if you will and this last Friday he was posted on the MARCH MODOK MADNESS blog. Here is the link...http://marchmodokmadness.blogspot.com/2011/03/submitted-modok-rick-lucey.html If you are a creator go ahead and create your MODOK and send it to the blog. Here is a fun Kirby page with I believe the earliest MODOK appearance. http://kirbymuseum.org/blogs/kirby/archives/231 You can also find MODOK on THE AVENGERS animated show on DISNEY HD currently.

Captain America WWII Battle Scene.

I decided for the fun of it to create a retro WWII action scene starring one Captain America. He is a comic book hero partly created by one of my all time favorite artists Jack Kirby. The Captain America here started out as another character I created in Illustrator a few months back. I took it and adjusted it and boom one Captain America in the look from the upcoming film with some slight elements of my own added. The background was created in Photoshop with layers of actual war imagery I altered to give it a certain look. In addition I added a couple giant Nazi robots that was actually one character I also made in Illustrator. Enjoy...