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347 – Orion

Friday, January 13th, 2012

When Kurt asked for Orion of the New Gods, I almost wanted to point out that I’ve already got an Orion drawing on the blog. But, since I didn’t actually draw that one (it’s a Kirby sketch that I “inked” and colored), I decided not to. Plus, I could get to draw the Astro Harness. 30 attempts later, and we have this. I will say that while doing research, I discovered that if you type into Google Image Search “Orion New Gods”, you get that drawing that I just linked to. Unfortunately, it does not link to this site, but to some other blog. I’m not sure how I feel about it. While I did spend many hours working on it, it’s still a piece from derived from a sketch I found randomly on the internet, so I’ve got my fair share of dubiousness attached to this as well. Ah well. Internet. It’s Kurt Dinse Week Part 6: The Reckoning.

Tags: art, Color, DC Comics, Ink, Jack Kirby, Kurt Dinse, New Gods, Orion, Sketch
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306 – Wally West: New God

Saturday, December 3rd, 2011

Inspired by a comment from Josh Marowitz (friend of Joe Grunenwald and listener of League Night), I decided to give Wally West a Fourth World-inspired makeover to explain that he has become a New God, which is why he no longer exists in the DC Universe anymore.

Tags: art, Color, DC Comics, Fourth World, Fuck DC, Ink, Jack Kirby, New Gods, Sketch, The Flash, Wally West
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279 – Odin

Sunday, November 6th, 2011

By Odin’s Beard!

My friend Stephen Alexander is a member of a group called The Gem City Gentlemen of the Gilded Beard. This is a group of people who are in love with – to a possibly obsessive degree – their own beards.

If my comments seem snide, it is out of pure jealousy and my own inability to grow a decent beard.

But weird beards aside, they are a pretty giving group of folks, and on November 12th, they are holding Ohio’s Second Annual Beard and Moustache Competition and Festival. The event is being held at COSI, in Columbus, Ohio.

This is more than just an odd excuse to look at and possible fondle beards. Proceeds from the Competition will go to the organization Central Ohio Men Against Prostate Cancer, and this drawing of Thor’s father, Odin, will be auctioned off to benefit this charity, along with some other great art, too.

Stephen had asked me last year to contribute a drawing for The Competition, but I was undergoing my artistic nervous breakdown at the time and told him I couldn’t. I hope Odin makes up for it this year.

So, on November 12th, go to COSI early and explore SCIENCE! and then stick around for the Second Annual Beard and Moustache Competition and Festival and buy my art for a good cause. More information can be found at Beard Team Ohio.

That said, it was difficult to find any decent reference on Odin outside of Anthony Hopkins. I definitely knew I wanted this to be a Jack Kirby version of Odin, but he drew Odin completely different each time he set pencil to page. Either that or Vince Colletta did. Also the color palette was pretty awful as well, so I just kinda winged that.

Tags: art, auction, Beard Team Ohio, beards, Central Ohio Men Against Prostate Cancer, charity, Color, COSI, Gem City Gentlemen of the Gilded Beard, Ink, Jack Kirby, Marvel Comics, Odin, Odin's Beard, Ohio's Second Annual Beard and Moustache Competition and Festival, Thor
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