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.

346 – Raza


I know this character from The Starjammers, a group of Space Pirates who are supporting characters in the X-Men books, designed by the genius of Dave Cockrum, and as a whole vastly underrated and underused characters. That said, I don’t know a lot about this specific character, other than that he had a ponytail and metal arm long before it was cliche, so I guess that makes him one of the O.G. Badasses. Sweet. Kurt Five, Dinse Furious.

345 – The Mandarin


Kurt Dinse is opening my mind up to an amazing wonderland of ridiculously dressed villains! I’ve known for a long time that most of the classic silver age Marvel villains were all decked out in green and purple, but I had never seen The Mandarin in this get-up before. I’ve only seen him as a slightly regal Chinese dynasty royalty-type. This may also one of the more borderline racist drawings I’ve ever done. It’s Kurt Dinse Week, Part 4: Back to da Hood.

344 – The Beetle


I’ve always kinda dug Beetle, the Spider-Man/Iron Man villain. I remember him from one of the old cartoons and thought he had a cool distinct look. He’s incredibly underused. I honestly can’t think of any comic I’ve seen him in other than The Ultimate books. So, when Kurt asked for this particular version, I was a little take aback. I had never seen this character look this way. It’s ridiculously amazing. Kurt Dinse Weeks, Part 3: A Game of Shallows.