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Get Marwood & I

Get Marwood & I

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22 minutes ago, vaillant said:

Well, even an issue with youth protest themes (#10)…
It doesn’t get better than this… with Bronze Age's most mature endeavors. :D 

Wanted for theft and murder! xD

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5 hours ago, Artboy99 said:

LOL! In a fight against Clumsy Neron Man would still get the tar beat out of him because he would somehow be injuring himself.

I've seen some of both your art..I demand a crossover collaboration!

please.

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4 minutes ago, Patriot6 said:

In WPG, it is merely a block or two. I don;t know if it really counts...

Ottawa's is pretty small as well,sort of blends into little Italy.Like Torch,growing up,I often traveled to strange lands for comics,and the rough rough 'hood of Chinatown had one of my favourite shops.Where I found my copies of Strange Tales 101 and 102 as a twelve year old.Area is still rough as hell,i've lived here for twenty years now,but the shop is looong gone.Sad,because it had been a bookstore/mag shop since the fifties.Some of the comics I bought there still had the old store stamp on them dating back to the atomic age.I guess they just got recycled through the neighbourhood over all that time.Being young and travelling by myself on the bus through the city finding comics are some of my happiest memories...how I got to know my hometown.Don't think parents would let their kids do that in this day and age.And i'm always looking for comics with Bennetts Corner Sweets or Bennetts Books stamped on them

Comics were always around the house I grew up in..I learned to read sitting on my Papas or Gramps or uncles laps.I'll always love and read my comics,no matter how rare or expensive.It's why I love them so much,the stories that fed my young imagination,giving me dreams or nightmares.

Chinatown in Winterpeg..see?They're in EVERY city lol 

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9 minutes ago, porcupine48 said:

Ottawa's is pretty small as well,sort of blends into little Italy.Like Torch,growing up,I often traveled to strange lands for comics,and the rough rough 'hood of Chinatown had one of my favourite shops.Where I found my copies of Strange Tales 101 and 102 as a twelve year old.Area is still rough as hell,i've lived here for twenty years now,but the shop is looong gone.Sad,because it had been a bookstore/mag shop since the fifties.Some of the comics I bought there still had the old store stamp on them dating back to the atomic age.I guess they just got recycled through the neighbourhood over all that time.Being young and travelling by myself on the bus through the city finding comics are some of my happiest memories...how I got to know my hometown.Don't think parents would let their kids do that in this day and age.And i'm always looking for comics with Bennetts Corner Sweets or Bennetts Books stamped on them

Comics were always around the house I grew up in..I learned to read sitting on my Papas or Gramps or uncles laps.I'll always love and read my comics,no matter how rare or expensive.It's why I love them so much,the stories that fed my young imagination,giving me dreams or nightmares.

Chinatown in Winterpeg..see?They're in EVERY city lol 

:whee:memories...

It's cool that you seek the comics with the stamp ...porcupine48 pedigree? haha

I used to have to bike to town on a gravel road in rural MB to get comics and I'd pick up beer bottles along the way to return for 10 cents each and hopefully get a an extra.

One thing that sticks out like a sore thumb in your post for me though is: rough neighbourhood in Ottawa?! I have only been once, but certainly don't have that image of the city. 

I'm in my Winterpeg bubble (:

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8 hours ago, Artboy99 said:

I started to draw when I was around 3 years old. I was drawing things I saw and experienced. My Mom had a drawing I did of my dog pulling me on a sleigh, stuff like that.

We lived on a farm, and one day my Dad told me we were going shopping in the city. In those days, if you wanted to buy Rye bread and lunch meats you had to go to a bakery and a meat shop you couldn't buy it at the super-market type stores.

Anyways, once Dad had arrived at the baker to buy his rye bread, he reached into his pocket and handed me a bunch of change. He pointed at the used book store across the street named Paul's Book Store and told me to go buy some comics. He just wanted me out of his hair while he did his thing.

Inside Paul's store, he had shelves with piles of comics on them that he sold for 1/2 cover price or you could trade 2 for one.

I didn't have a lot of money but I had enough to buy 10 or so. While I don't remember exactly what books I picked I do know one of them was Fantastic Four 112.

After reading the comics I became very excited to try to draw these characters I was reading about. Eventually I started creating my own comics, mostly of my own characters.

My Dad even bought me a stapler designed to staple extra long paper/ documents so I could staple in the middle and then fold the paper ( just like the way comics were made! Also because the ones I made were falling apart and my Dad said you should never put tape on a comic. )

Some early stuff:

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Then my own character creations ( as a side note: while Neron Man resembles Nova he was created a few years before Marvel released Nova )

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The character fighting Neron Man is called the Mercenary. He came from a Mego creation/mutilation of putting Spiderman's head on a Green Goblin body!

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The Defender was created in 1980, I was 15 at that time and it was the last comic I made in my youth, high school was approaching and interests were changing. Before I went to High School I had continued to collect comics using money I earned from a paper route and I had a complete Hulk collection. 1-6, all the Tales to Astonish, and 102- whatever the current issue was + everything he appeared in. I really liked the big green guy in the Fantastic Four 112 I had bought and decided to collect his comics.

I like comics, because they have truly been a part of who I am.

 

 

There certainly are some similarities to existing Marvel covers. Issue 9 reminds me of a TTA (91 maybe or possible Hulk 171) where the Hulk fights two foes - and 10 reminds me of a Daredevil or perhaps it was Spider-man issue . It would be a fun game to see if we could find the comic that might have had the influence for the various covers.

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13 minutes ago, Patriot6 said:

:whee:memories...

It's cool that you seek the comics with the stamp ...porcupine48 pedigree? haha

I used to have to bike to town on a gravel road in rural MB to get comics and I'd pick up beer bottles along the way to return for 10 cents each and hopefully get a an extra.

One thing that sticks out like a sore thumb in your post for me though is: rough neighbourhood in Ottawa?! I have only been once, but certainly don't have that image of the city. 

I'm in my Winterpeg bubble (:

Oh,Ottawas got nuthin' on WNP for rough hoods lol :baiting:.It's a charming city,but we still have a good amount of dark corners we keep the tourists out of.I've found my fair share of people turning tricks,shooting dope,smoking crack ect ect in my vestibule! I used to run pretty rough myself,so it just seemed a part of life lol 

I remember riding my bike looking for empties too!Thirty years ago,twenty minutes from downtown was almost rural!When the recycle blue boxes came in,i'd get up early and make a killing on those old returnable pop bottles,I think the deposit was thirty or forty cents?So that funded many a comic and busfare!

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1 minute ago, porcupine48 said:

Oh,Ottawas got nuthin' on WNP for rough hoods lol :baiting:.It's a charming city,but we still have a good amount of dark corners we keep the tourists out of.I've found my fair share of people turning tricks,shooting dope,smoking crack ect ect in my vestibule! I used to run pretty rough myself,so it just seemed a part of life lol 

I remember riding my bike looking for empties too!Thirty years ago,twenty minutes from downtown was almost rural!When the recycle blue boxes came in,i'd get up early and make a killing on those old returnable pop bottles,I think the deposit was thirty or forty cents?So that funded many a comic and busfare!

The Pic-A-Pop bottles!! Times were good back then a few empty, dirty bottles equaled comics. How many bottles would you have to gather today for a new comic?

Thee goes my image of Ottawa as a utopia :sorry:

There are some 'rough patches' in WPG, but it is like anywhere else, you only find yourself in trouble if you're doing stupid things.

Have you seen any MPs turning tricks, shooting dope or smoking rock? Because I would only suspect that type of behaviour from them not the good citizens of OTT!

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2 minutes ago, Patriot6 said:

The Pic-A-Pop bottles!! Times were good back then a few empty, dirty bottles equaled comics. How many bottles would you have to gather today for a new comic?

Thee goes my image of Ottawa as a utopia :sorry:

There are some 'rough patches' in WPG, but it is like anywhere else, you only find yourself in trouble if you're doing stupid things.

Have you seen any MPs turning tricks, shooting dope or smoking rock? Because I would only suspect that type of behaviour from them not the good citizens of OTT!

I once served a former mayor out with an escort...but he greased me well,so no names.Nothing Rob Ford like.

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Just now, porcupine48 said:

I once served a former mayor out with an escort...but he greased me well,so no names.Nothing Rob Ford like.

Classic!

Things seem to run down hill she was 'greasing' him and so on down the line to you haha

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7 hours ago, Artboy99 said:

Thanks. My Mom was a great person. While she always appreciated my art, she always asked me to "draw something nice" so I found myself on occasion doing water color paintings for her. While I did do those nice things she wanted, my true passion was comic art and monsters and the like.

Here is a sample watercolor I did for her:

 

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Looks like those dolphins are making babies.

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