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Great D&D stuff! I must not be remembering my spell lists correctly... With the Cleric there (Detect Evil), why did the Wizard get asked to Raise the Dead? Actually, the cleric had an edged weapon... Paladin?

Listing later tonight: Probably around 8pm Pacific Time Hulk #1-6 (low grade) Other Silver Age books. (thumbs u

Welcome to the board! (That black costume Spider-man is really vivid. The whites really pop. (thumbs u )

Forget Scanners and exploding heads.... Sword and gunplay = Gun Kata!

I'm buying you a shot when I see you. A shot of chocolate Coke? Cherry coke is actually really good. COKE ZERO What took you so long Not to mention Cherry Coke Zero! Love those buy 2 12-packs get 2 free deals...

So, like....are you saying Baltimore Lauren is a guy? Ooh, never thought of that. So you're suggesting that maybe I had it wrong? That this seller created Lauren, who then created a fake dad, who then had an argument with the seller who created Lauren? Maybe.... Work with me, now.... MAYBE this seller is actually Architect, and he created the CGC boards so he would have a place to create BOTH Lauren AND the seller, in the attempt to sell some krappy Spidey books at inflated prices...and the CGC boards have all been one 7 year long elaborate hoax leading up to this very conclusion....? And, he hired an actor to play Lauren at conventions, and set up the ebay account way back in November of 1999, knowing he would eventially have the CGC boards with which to concoct this elaborate hoax! Think about it! It could be true! Now you're talkin'. Is there any truth to the rumor he/she created the Internet? Everyone knows that Al Gore created the internet. BRB, its been acting a bit flaky lately I'm going to go into the server room to reboot it. You may get a "page cannot be displayed" just wait a minute and then hit refresh. I really wish that people would stop perpetuating this nonsense, even as a joke. It's not true and is an unfair characterization of what the man actually said and did. Vint Cerf's explanation of Gore's actual significant contributions (Vint Cerf is commonly acknowledged as "the father of the internet".)

Thanks! I read the Alan Moore Swamp Things... but that was a vampire. (Since Wrightson had drawn Frankenstein...) I've since realized that the posters were 24x36 and not 18x24. I remember always scrambling for markers of certain colors when buying those cheap packs.

And finally, a shot that shows I started using light and shadow... This was probably done when I was 16. Still no formal training or even an art class. I don't think I took my first art class until as a senior in high school or college actually. Thanks for allowing me to show some stuff from my childhood. (thumbs u I remember a whole bunch of smaller 11x14 sketches and drawings I did when I was even younger, but those seem to have been lost into the ether...

As a byproduct of playing Dungeons and Dragons (and being the Dungeon Master), this was to be expected:

This seems to be a Hildebrandt Unicorn... And obviously I didn't like drawing feet... or in this case, flippers. I started doing those rocks like that because of Bernie Wrightson's Frankenstein. Which led to this failed experiment... To this day, I still think Dracula looks like Sam from Cheers, the tv show. Yeah... that's Thor's Hammer.

Concurrently with these posters, I also did some art for the high school literary magazine... I probably stole this from either Korak or Tarzan... I think that ape already died from having me twist his body in an impossible position... so there was already no hope of rescue.

When Tim Truman showed up with Grim Jack, I really liked his art style. The lettering is indicative of something called "Bad Planning". Evidently, I stole this from the back cover of StarSlayer #17

Then John Byrne went and created a new superteam, Alpha Flight. This one really used up a lot of yellow.... I mean, these are 24" x 36" posters. Clearly, from the marker strokes, I had no idea how to adequately color in a consistent fashion. The clouds are still weird...

When I was introduced to Barry Windsor-Smith on Machine Man and various X-men fill-in issues (having missed his earlier work), I was impressed. Yeah, it's pretty strange for someone to actually DRAW their own comic posters. The only poster I ever purchased back then was a Frazetta print. (thumbs u

DC comics started printing Baxter paper copies of New Teen Titans... and I speculated on them. To this day, I still have dozens of copies of the early baxter issues. The problem with drawing with markers is that if you screw up, you can't fix it. (I hadn't realized you could fix things with white paint... Even then, my watercolor markers wouldn't have been able to color over that new texture.) As seen in that colored over planet in the black area by Trigon's right arm.

And, of course, there was American Flagg... which probably wouldn't have passed the Comic Code Authority. Note: I found a straight edge. Drawing those stars was amazingly difficult actually...

With Steve "the Dude" Rude and Mike Baron came Nexus... My lettering skills apparently sucked...

Independent comics really went huge in the mid-80s. With the Epic Line came Starlin and Dreadstar.

Michael Golden was also another influence... Although I clearly didn't realize that the Baron's shoulders weren't placed in the correct anatomical position...

Then I encountered a "painted" cover from the book Chronicles of the Fantastic Four which was an independent series that indexed various Marvel titles. Which led to this: That black line on the Thing is actually from me drawing on the photograph in some deranged fugue state probably from the watercolor marker fumes. It didn't actually help.

Realizing I wasn't using the whole posterboard... and in the mood to waste some marker (since I got some more packs which were like a buck per pack)... Yeah... clouds don't look like that. After Starlin of course. (thumbs u

Which led my sister and mom to say something along the lines of "why don't you draw something that's not from a comic book?" Which led to this: It's a copy of an Audobon plate of a sparrow.

Then I started experimenting with not using black lines... but the anatomy is so wrong on this one, it's embarrassing. (Markers.... the poor kid's paint set.)

Frank Miller was another obvious influence... I actually remember doing various Wolverine posters including one of the cover of #2, but those weren't actually photographed I think.

When Judge Dredd came out from Eagle in 1983, I hadn't read the 2000AD stuff so it opened up a whole new world...