QUEST FOR HELLBOY

The Line It Is Drawn #179 featured mashups of comic book characters and saturday morning TV shows. BeccaDannysWife suggested: "Jonny Quest’s lost episode… “The Legend of the Hellboy”. Below are the component parts, screencapped from the original JQ cartoon. The challenge was integrating Hellboy in a way that appeared consistant with the cartoon; with dark desaturated colors and some blurring effects.

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FYMS

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Space Cowboy

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From The Line it is Drawn #178: "Every fifty installments, this will be the theme! Mash-up a comic book character and a famous music album cover!" BigMike20X6 suggested: "The Joker on the cover of Steve Miller Band’s The Joker".

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GLPT

So, on the latest episode of the Line it is Drawn, people were asked what romantic pairings of comic book characters they'd like to see. Someone suggested Green Lantern and Photon. Problem: there are 3 or 4 Photons and a grip of GLs (say, 4 main ones?).

Now, I sort of thought the reader was referring to Monica Rambeau and John Stewart, but I kind of felt uncomfortable just naturally assuming it's the 2 African-American characters that should be together. However, I didn't want to short change therealAstrozac, who made the suggestion (although I began to suspect the vagueness of the suggestion was designed to mess with the artist).

At any rate, here are Hal Jordan and Monica Rambeau, followed by the John Stewart variant, and at bottom Hal and the Photon from Youngblood, in honor of the Sochi Olympics.

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If you're wondering what's up with the costume in the top images, it's from a redesign I did a while ago: here.

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COMICS/VIDEO GAMES

From: The Line it is Drawn #176: " Here’s a good one we haven’t done in quite a while (and in fact, I don’t think I’ve ever phrased it exactly like this before) – mash-up comic book characters with notable video games!"

shurwitt suggested: "Dr. Strange in the realm of Q*Bert!".

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MechanisticMoth suggested: "Tintin and Lara Croft".

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HB/WD

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From the Line it is Drawn#179: “Courtesy of a suggestion from our own Daniel Cox, mash-up and/or team-up comic book characters with Hanna-Barbera characters! Here is a list of Hanna-Barbera characters if you’re unfamiliar which cartoons they did.”

joshschr suggested: "Hanna Barbara characters are the Walking Dead!"

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MM & BB

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From the Line it is Drawn #174: “In honor of Matt Fraction’s upcoming gender-swapped take on the Odyssey, switch the genders on a comic book character! Hellgirl, Alan and Markie, Scotia Pilgrim, etc!” gholson suggested: “Big Bardo and Miss Miracle!”

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YUB NUB

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From the Line it is Drawn #173: “In honor of the news that Marvel will be taking making Star Wars comic books in 2015, the theme this week is to team-up or mash-up Star Wars characters and Marvel Comics characters. Ecovore suggested: “Ewoks meet Rocket Raccoon”

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KRYPTONIAN GOTHIC

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From the Line it is Drawn #172: “An oldie but a goodie – mash up comic book characters with famous paintings!” tako1337 suggested: “Superman/Wonder Woman in American Gothic”

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SUPERDICKERY

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WHAT'S UP, DC?

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From The Line it is Drawn #171: “Based on a suggestion by twitter followers Ted and Lisa Dahlman, we’re doing a twist on dream casting for a superhero movie. Now, instead, pick a comic book team or character and a YEAR and our artists would have to come up with dream casting for that character/team for that particular year. To wit, who would be the dream casting for Wolverine in the year 1939? 1957? 1968? 1985? 1992? You get the picture.” Futabakun suggested: “Capt. Carrot & the Zoo Crew in 1945, when animation may have been at its peak!”

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VODCAST

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LINK

Here's something I did for Link, Enbridge's award-winning employee magazine. Thanks to AD Morgan Curley at Sasges.

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IT'S JACK KIRBY'S BIRTHDAY

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WAYBACK MACHINE

I've retro-style colored a couple things drawn by other people recently:

Above is a drawing by the awesome Jim Rugg featuring his character Afrodisiac, of whom I've been a huge fan since the gorgeously packaged book Jim and Brian Maruca did came out in 2010. Buy it (and anything else with his name on it)!

Below is a piece by the crazy talented Ramon Villalobos of Green Lantern as the ee-vil Parallax. Hit up his Tumblr, where you can mainline his awesome drawings, like charging up your power ring.

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AMIK

I was reading about the graphic design around the 1976 Montréal Olympics and couldn't really find a decent-sized image of the excellent Amik the beaver poster, so I whipped one up in Illustrator, comme ça:

Also, peep this other groovy official poster from those games:

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THE "D" IS SILENT.

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SWAPaDOODLE

I was asked to be part of Randm Collective's SwapaDoodle project last month. Click here to see the other amazing contributor's festive-themed work. Below is mine, which I couldn't resist tweaking in the interim since the show. The longer a piece sits around, the more I'll work on it. In the past I've gone so far as replacing posted work with updated, re-uploaded files. I have a problem.

 Thanks to Mike Kerr and Renata Liwska asking me to take part in this fun event!

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SPIDER-MAN

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GENERAL MOTORS III

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