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Fantasmic Four

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This was done for the most recent redesign challenge at Whitechapel.

The Instructions –

You are an artist/designer. You have to put together the cover for a comic called THE FANTASTIC FOUR. It is issue 1 of this book.

You have been told that the comic is about four people who steal a spaceship, fly into space, get heavily irradiated by cosmic rays, and return to earth weirdly altered by their experience.

And that’s it. The bastards haven’t told you one more damn thing than that. Not a clue. They might all be women. It might be about the Indian space programme twenty years from now. For all you know this is a JG Ballard story, for christ’s sake…

It’s up to you what kind of company you’re at. What kind of comics you make. How you translate that description of The Fantastic Four. What era you’re in. Who you are, even. Go nuts with it.

So I decided I was a stoner artist doing underground comics in 1971 who very liberally reinterpreted the description of the contents of the comic. I did the basic artwork while I was waiting for Nizzibet at the dentist. And because my brain tends to keep working on an idea for days (or weeks or years) once the seed has been planted I’m finding myself coming up with stories I could do with these weirdos. Sigh. If I had all the time I needed to execute all my ideas (stupid or not) I’d live forever. Ideas are easy. Having the time to execute them is the real challenge.

Anyway, there are a lot of cool reinterpretations of the FF at the other side of that link above.

David Lynch’s Spider-Man

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This was done in November of 2010 for another redesign challenge at Warren Ellis’s Whitechapel forums.

INSTRUCTIONS:

You must design a poster for a movie called SPIDER-MAN directed by David Lynch. This is all you know.

That’s it. You have one week. Begin.

I’m not really a fan of David Lynch’s work. I really like some films. Others don’t really do anything for me. Looking at his IMDB listing I see that I actually haven’t seen most of his films. So this probably wasn’t the best challenge for me to take on.

Spider-Man was the first comic I regularly read as a kid so I felt compelled to try anyway. This was another case of not having a lot of time available. I did the illustration elements during a lunch break at the Day Job and then did a quick colorization and type treatment that evening.

Go to the first link above to see the work of a lot of other cool artists.

New Worlds Relaunch

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This was a quick design done for one of Warren Ellis’s redesign challenges over at his Whitechapel forums. The basics of the challenge were –

You are an artist/designer.

You have to put together the cover for #223 of something called NEW WORLDS.

You have been told that NEW WORLDS is the most groundbreaking, forward-looking, ambitious and original science fiction magazine in the world.

And that’s it.

This was back in May of 2010. I was being kept really busy at the Day Job and I was mostly exhausted by the time I got home. Getting a new illustration done, no matter how fun the project, was just not going to happen. So I cheated. I grabbed an old piece from my Epilogue.net gallery, colorized it and did a quick type treatment for the logo.

I like the results but there are many, much more impressive pieces to be found on the original thread.