Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Happy 70th Birthday Marvel Comics!



Today is being celebrated as Marvel Comics' 70th anniversary in the publishing business.
Here is the tip of my hat to the comic that started it all--Marvel Comics #1.
If you are interested...the cover recreation was achieved by 1275 slashes of the Photoshop line tool in four weights: 2 pt, 3 pt,10 pt and 20 pt. Colors were sampled from a jpg of the original cover.
It took about an hour.
Happy Birthday House of Ideas!



5 comments:

  1. UnknownAugust 12, 2009 at 7:27 AM

    Reminds of a Beanish look-see-show.

    ..IN COLOR!

    Very cool.

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  2. Brian Jacoby from Secret Headquarters in Tallahassee FloridaAugust 12, 2009 at 10:58 AM

    That's a lot of slats!

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  3. Charles BrownsteinAugust 12, 2009 at 12:34 PM

    That's awesome in a "what if Frank Miller & Gary Panter ever collaborated" way.

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  4. Larry MarderAugust 12, 2009 at 1:02 PM

    Wow. They ARE slats. I was so busy thinking "Slash! Slash! Slash!" as I pummelled the screen with each fast stroke...I didn't even see the obvious in front of me.
    This is probably because I, Larry Marder, was doing this rendering as opposed to Beanish doing it. Okay, that sounds pretty nutty.

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  5. RoballooAugust 14, 2009 at 8:24 PM

    This is great I think it would look awesome as a poster.

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