Drawn when I was 15
June 30th, 2009
Bigger version here. Mostly I was just copying Dave Cockrum’s style.
This was done for a role-playing game Kurt Busiek and I were working on in middle school.
Kurt and I played D&D, read comic books, and quoted Monty Python routines a lot. We were involved in comics fandom partially as a way to hone our skills for our eventual careers in comics. Mostly, of course, we were in it for the ladies.
March 3, 2021
I love this drawing so much, I can’t even fully express it!
Are these you and Kurt’s original super heros?
Nope! These are Marvel Comics’ superheroes, our favorites in those days.
Haha same profil here. AD&D pizza and lots of movies with the friends! 🙂
And drawing for me.. a lot..
The ladies would love this to no end.
Oh yes.
Great drawing, though! Well executed.
Drawn ladies are almost as good as real ones. 😉 Btw, I recall some Captain America drawings from your pen published in The Comics Journal, or something.
Yeah, I did a bunch of spot illos for early issues of the Comics Journal.
The ladies love artists. Just not comics ones 🙂 .
So, did the ladies thing work out OK? 😀
Worked 12 years later.
There were various parties we attended late in our high school days where attractive young women would sit in our laps and nuzzle us as a way of getting us to shut the hell up about comic books and join the party.
So I guess you could say it worked, even then!
Salvador Dali meets the Avengers. 🙂
I was heavily into Dali, Max Ernst and M.C. Escher at the time.
Oh, that makes sense! In the issue of Zot when they’re all playing the superhero RPG, there’s a lot of surrealism going on. Tinfoil-wrapped dwarves and giant pool balls and the like.
Nice draw!
Kang the Conqueror=Ranma Tut=Inmortus=Iron Lad=Scarlet Centurion=¿Salvador Dali?
http://lexusenthusiast.com/images/weblog/08-06-21-lexus-salvador-dali.jpg
And if you had shown me this when I first met you, it would have been even longer before you got the girl. No, I’m kidding, I think it’s awesome. I remember watching you and Kurt playing your super-hero D&D games and thinking how wonderful it was that you could be so dorky.
And I was quoting Monty Python and playing D&D as well, so I guess I was just as dorky. So, probably doesn’t count then…
You were a MIRACLE. Nerds everywhere should wish there were a million of you.
Man, you drew better at 15 than I can draw at 30… And I’ve tried for 18 years.
Sadly, though, in many respects, I’m not sure I’m drawing all that much better now!
I wish I could have drawn like that when I was 15 years old!
I was lucky if I could draw my stick figures properly….
Watch out, lady on Kang’s middle finger! Cap is throwing his shield at you from behind!
Sounds like you and Kurt were getting laid just about as much as me when I was in high school.
Hope I get to 15 soon!
(despite I’m 21 now…)
Is this done with Prismacolor pencils? That brings back memories for me too!
I think so, yes.
<3 <3 <3
There is a little logo on the bottom and the date
4-21-76
What’s the logo?
The logo… I’m embarrassed to admit… is a little, um, icon I designed for myself.
…designed at 15! Oy…
Fancy initials! Very nice. 🙂
I think the Captain America pic was an illustration in the TCJ McCloud feature issue, btw. (In connection with Understanding Comics, I think. It also featured Terry Zwigoff and Kim Deitch. Can’t find the issue now, maybe it’s in the attic.)
It’s better than how I draw now!
This could totally be in Kramer’s Ergot.
You’re better than me at 15, and that was two years ago.