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…And an Encore!

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Well, we just com­plet­ed anoth­er Jack Kir­by Trib­ute Month (curat­ed and cre­at­ed by Howard Simp­son). I guess you could call this the bonus round. Like last year, I decid­ed to try to assem­ble all of these into one, big image. With the excep­tion of yes­ter­day’s “wild card” round, which was not a Jack Kir­by cre­ation, so it does­n’t belong here. Plus 30 images just group togeth­er a lot eas­i­er than 31!

See­ing all of these togeth­er, I’m struck by how busy the end result is! There’s a lot going on. I guess that’s a result of my try­ing to give each pan­el a sense of nar­ra­tive, as if they were each ran­dom­ly plucked from the midst of larg­er stories.

A lot­ta work there! See­ing them all togeth­er makes me real­ize that. But it’s cool see­ing them all in this context.

Will I do this again next year? We’ll see. I may tweak my process a lit­tle bit. I did this year, by adding the nar­ra­tive aspect.

I hope you’ve enjoyed this trip with me, found it fun and inspirational.

No, I Am Not Coming with You!

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This is now the 22nd day of this year’s Jack Kir­by Trib­ute Month (cre­at­ed by Howard Simp­son), and we’re work­ing our way through Asgard Week. Today’s prompt is Hela, god­dess of Death! Hela presents a strik­ing visual!

Like some oth­er char­ac­ters in the book, it seemed to take a lit­tle bit before she devel­oped a real “fixed” form. It seems she only appeared four times dur­ing Jack­’s run. I don’t have a copy of her ini­tial appear­ance in Jour­ney into Mys­tery #102 (I think in a “Tales of Asgard” back­up),  but when I looked up her sec­ond appear­ance in Thor #133, I was sur­prised. Not only is the draw­ing a bit dif­fer­ent, the col­or scheme does­n’t even include any green in it! It was­n’t until #150 that we got what most peo­ple have come to think of as her clas­sic design.

I’d nev­er tried to draw Hela before, and it was an inter­est­ing chal­lenge to wrap my head around her design, fig­ure out a way to under­stand it so I could draw it. One lib­er­ty I took was the green lips. They did­n’t do that in her appear­ance in #150, but it felt right to me. It’s like it gives her an even more “oth­er­word­ly” feel.

I had fun with this one, so I hope you like it too. Come back tomor­row to see who vis­its us next from Asgard!