Recreation Covers?

[StuporMan]

Do you have OA that is an homage or recreation of an original? I see these go up for auction on Heritage a lot but I'm always outbid - so I know a boardie or two has some If you do, post it here thanks in advance!!

 

Here's an example of one of my favorites - John Buscema paying homage to his brother Sal:

 

[Brian Peck]

I have three recreations by John Buscema, One I commissions in 2000 featuring the transformation of Norrin Radd into the Silver Surfer,

 

 

 

 

 

 

the other two are commissions he did for others I acquired later, Sub-Mariner #1 and Silver Surfer #1 covers (one pencils and the other inks).

 

 

 

 

 

Last is a recreation by the inker Joe Rubinstein of the X-Men #153 cover he did with Dave Cockrum

 

 

 

 

 

[Bird]

 

With special thanks to John S who helped with Bill a bit!

[mister_not_so_nice]

I've got quite a few cover recreations in MY CAF. My are centered around my love of the PREACHER series.

 

 

From Mr. Herb Trimpe -

 

From Mr. Bob Layton -

 

From a Fellow board member who can take credit (if that's the correct term) for this if he so chooses or remain anonymous.

 

[Terry Doyle]

For a long, long time I was always dismissive of cover re-creations. Most examples I looked at just didn't look right to me. Amateur work looked very amateurish . . . even many of the re-creations by the original artists looked shaky (especially when trying to re-do the logo and lettering - itself a real skill that most artists don't possess). John Buscema is amongst a handful a notable exceptions, here (the images Brian posted display the work of an artist whose skills never diminished with old age).

 

Then, a few years ago, I came upon the work of Bruce McKorkindale - who clearly knew how to do re-creations just right. Bruce is aware that printed covers of the original comics (used as a guide) thickened the line work of the original art as a result of the printing processes (losing a lot of the fine detail in the transition) and he attempts to sharpen the images to how they likely would have looked when they left the drawing board.

 

Currently, I possess 10 re-creations by Bruce (on 13" x 20" artboards) with more on the way (he has a waiting list of clients).

 

No real substitute for the original originals, of course. However, pre-1965 Marvel cover art has, for the most part, never surfaced - and if they ever did, would fetch mega-bucks if offered for sale (way beyond the reach of most of us, here).

 

Here are some examples of the re-creations I now possess (others can be viewed in my CAF Covers Gallery # 4):

 

[Terry Doyle]

For this one, I had Bruce transpose the splash page image with that of the published cover.

 

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[Terry Doyle]

[Doc McCoy]

I have two.

 

Chris Ivy's modern update of Paul Smith's classic Uncanny X-Men #167 cover

 

Amazing Adventures #12 by our own Artboy99, Karl Janot

[staffman]

I've got quite a few cover recreations in MY CAF. My are centered around my love of the PREACHER series.

 

 

From a Fellow board member who can take credit (if that's the correct term) for this if he so chooses or remain anonymous.

 

 

[StuporMan]

I have three recreations by John Buscema, One I commissions in 2000 featuring the transformation of Norrin Radd into the Silver Surfer,

 

the other two are commissions he did for others I acquired later, Sub-Mariner #1 and Silver Surfer #1 covers (one pencils and the other inks).

 

 

Amazing art - congrats!!

[StuporMan]

I've got quite a few cover recreations in MY CAF. My are centered around my love of the PREACHER series.

 

From a Fellow board member who can take credit (if that's the correct term) for this if he so chooses or remain anonymous.

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Awesome !!

[StuporMan]

 

These are all amazing. Bruce McKorkindale appears to be setting a standard for other amateur artists to follow...they're perfect!!

 

I'm following him on FB now

[StuporMan]

I have two.

 

Chris Ivy's modern update of Paul Smith's classic Uncanny X-Men #167 cover

 

Amazing Adventures #12 by our own Artboy99, Karl Janot

 

So cool. If you didn't mention it, I would have thought these look like originals!

[chrisco37]

I've got quite a few cover recreations in MY CAF. My are centered around my love of the PREACHER series.

 

 

From a Fellow board member who can take credit (if that's the correct term) for this if he so chooses or remain anonymous.

 

 

 

Yeah, this one is great!

[alxjhnsn]

Bruce does great work. His "Swan/Klein" is excellent.

 

I have two pieces that honor the first comic that I ever bought - JLA 29 (1st series).

 

Here's that cover:

 

My wife hired Todd Reis to make a 3D of it for me. This is very cool and you should click the image and watch the video.

 

 

More recently, she commissioned Scott Shaw! to do a version featuring his characters from Captain Carrot and his Amazing Zoo Crew and the Justa Lotta Animals.

 

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The only other item in this theme is a "one minute later" kind of take by Herb Trimpe based on my favorite Incredible Hulk Story - The Incredible Hulk #140.

 

 

P.S. I tried to make image scaling work, but it won't cooperate.

 

[delekkerste]

I picked this one up in 2003: Enric re-did his Vampirella #28 cover sometime in the 1990s and put Vampi in her red Baywatch costume as opposed to her, um, European beach look shown on the published cover.

[BCarter27]

I've got quite a few cover recreations in MY CAF. My are centered around my love of the PREACHER series.

 

These are insane in the best way.

[MIL0S]

hey all, how do you insert an image into your post?