Trump Flu Blues Prevention I - Colouring C'thul'hu

Yesterday we notioned collecting some art for colouring pages to help keep folks entertained while hunkered down to avoid Trump Flu. The ol' wandering brain seems to have liked that notion and much gathering has occurred. So we'll make it a series. 

Let's kick things off with some actual colouring book pages, this batch from Marc A. Damicis and his -

I got rather carried away with prepping these pages. They're all sized to print at 8"x10" at 300dpi. We should probably stick with 150dpi for future batches. 

Yeah, i'll try to go with something a tad less disturbing for the next batch. But the Lullaby Festival was coming up, so the the Sleeper was on my mind.

Y'know - it can be a lot more fun colouring on the computer. Especially with some of the comic book art we'll be running. So i believe i'll put together a quick beginner's guide for those who haven't tried it. There's nothing like using excess free time to learn while you play. (Yes, i'll point to some free software that can do the job)

page art by Marc A. Damicis from Cthulhu Coloring Book, 2nd. Ed (1997)

I'm A Bit Gravitationally Challenged At The Moment!

Did you tune in to catch the third installment of Lost In (an alternate section of) The Andes this morning?

Nope, not happening.
(It'll be here this afternoon.)

 

I've been running on the assumption that everyone knows who Don Rosa is because... of course they do! Let us pause for the benefit of those who are not "everyone" and peek at a bit of the work that made him famous. Don was (and is) a huge fan of 'the good duck artist' and has carried on the works of Carl Barks. (A part of why i said he's likely genuinely proud of other works in yesterday's post)

Rather than try to describe the work Don has done with Bark's Uncle Scrooge, (among others) here's one of my favorites so you can see for yourself. Don finds a simple, but brilliant, idea from which to bring a novel adventure with fresh visuals and humor naturally inherent in the very concept. From 1997, A Matter Of Some Gravity -

Yep. Donald drove in that position before Deadpool.

That's a glimpse for those who are lucky enough to have all those old stories to discover for the first time. You go work on that and we'll be back this afternoon to conclude the Pertwillaby Papers dailies.

page art by Don Rosa for Walt Disney Comics and Stories #610 (1997)

Sunday Morning Funnies, Once Again

My brain is foggy, and i'm too knackered to go look, but it seems like it's been a fair bit since we had a nice, simple, Sunday Morning Funnies. Regular readers (and irregular readers perusing these pages on a persistent basis) know i've been holed up in my cave mentally of late. I feel like getting out and stretching, so let's get our funnies today from abroad - we'll ease in with a strip from England, then head on over to Poland, and down to India.
But - Fear Not! Comics pulled from non-English books are wordless, and one is even kind enough to have an English language title. Probably not just to make it easy for me, but that's what we'll be pretending here.

We begin in England with the first comic from the first issue of The Beano, published 80 years ago in 1938 and the artist seems lost to time, at least on this side of the Atlantic -

From Poland, we have bits by Marek Raczkowski from Komiks 97...

...and January Misiak from Komiks 99 -

And, from India, a few comics  from the back of Bruce Lee's Escapade In Kalahari courtesy of Shehab and Prakash -

We'll be back at midday with a couple short comic adventures for a 1958 Super Matinee.
You have no idea how hard i'm working to resist the soon-to-be-obvious pun.

The Beano #1, Komiks 97, Komiks 99, and Indrahal Comics v.21#31 (1938, 1997, 1998, 1984)

Blue Mary Finale

Welcome back to our Blue Monday celebration of Mary Fleener's work - step right in!

Before we take a look at some of her covers, let's take a quick peek at a few comics.
This one seems right at home with Fleener's visual style-

NOTE: The following 2 pages, and much of Mary's artwork below,

 contains nudity and has been moved to our back room for adult content.
Please follow this link to The Other Voice Of ODD! archive
of the original post to view the artwork.

How's your Lawrence?

Confused?
The Swiss publication, Das Magazin, has a feature entitled Werke der Weltliteratur (Works Of World Literature) in which they ask artists to translate a classic novel into a single comic page. As might be expected with such an endeavor, it helps tremendously if you're familiar with the original material.

Here's a couple more from Mary:

Yes, she does use words! (In case you were starting to wonder)
Of course, she may incorporate said words into the art...

Mary's works are as uniquely personal expressions as her artwork might suggest. The source material is often her own life and surroundings, and the events shaping her world. So, it might help a bit to know a little about her, eh?
Let's let her tell it:

I can relate. Creating my artwork is my best therapy. (I sure hope we get that system fully functional soon so i can resume therapy)

You were promised Covers with you Comics, so let's view some now.
Here are 10 covers from Mary Fleener -

Mary is the kind of Twisted Sister i quite enjoy. We'll look more at some of her longer comics on another day - we've already got a pretty full post with three cubed pics.
So let's wrap with a just few more bits & pieces of Fleener flair -

I'm so feeling the Coppertone.
I may have to use that last piece as a colouring book page and have fun with it.

While i'm doing that, you can learn more about, and see more from, Mary Fleener at her website. Perhaps more importantly, you buy some of her original paintings, too.

all artwork by Mary Fleener for various, mostly shown above (1987-1997)