355 – Uncle Creepy playing the violin as Cousin Eerie dances with Vampirella
What the title says. Request fulfillment for Jeff Potter.
354 – Jack of Hearts
I’d been sitting on this one for a while, as I wanted to color it up all fancy-like, but I could never get around to it, and I’ve grown to dislike the drawing immensely. I may give the character another go in the future. Anyhoo, he’s yet another awesomely weird/obscure Marvel character from the 70s/80s, and created by Keith Giffen to boot!
353 – The Eric Shonborn Year End of the Year Award for 2011
So in 2011, I began – unbeknownst to anyone, including me – to consider nominations for the 1st ever Eric Shonborn Year End of the Year Award. A lot of people were considered, but there could only be one winner:
JB Sapienza!
JB is a renaissance man with many talents and ventures, including co-running the website Rejected by Covered, being a cartoonist, making videos, and, as far as I’m concerned, being the guy in charge of the documentary MY NAME IS JONAH, which I look forward to seeing eventually. (JB also put together the MY NAME IS JONAH Free Comic Book Day digital comic, which I contributed to).
JB wins the award due to excelling.
The rest of you need to step up your game in 2012.
352 – Axe Cop
This is a request fulfillment for Jason Young, who reviewed the first AXE COP trade paperback with me on Gutter Trash, and in the process, discovered the greatest comic book that has ever existed.
351 – Madman
Almost as much as I love Hellboy, I also love Mike Allred’s MADMAN, though he is a subject I have drawn in the past
350 – Hellboy
I don’t have the proper words to express how much I love Hellboy and everything related to it (Mignola, Fegredo, Davis, etc.)
349 – Batgirl
This may be the worst thing I’ve drawn since I started.
348 – Moon Knight
Kurt didn’t have to request Moon Knight. I was gonna draw him before the year was up at some point, this just finally gave me a good excuse to do it. I’m a big Moon Knight fan, though I haven’t really warmed to his current series. I really liked the previous volume that was seemingly cancelled for no reason after the Shadowland storyline in Daredevil. Oh well. This is last chapter of Kurt Dinse Week, Part 7: The Final. Thanks to Kurt for the requests, I had a blast.
347 – Orion
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 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.