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The Coolest Comic of 1976

Walt SiImonson and Archie Goodwin's follow up to Manhunter
Walt Simonson and Archie Goodwin do great comics

Back when we had to walk to school barefoot in a snowstorm and there were only two comic book company’s Marvel and DC, another company called Atlas appeared on the stands. Walt Simonson passed on this link to me of “The Temple of the Spider” published in one of there black and white magazines. It was a follow up of the Manhunter series he had recently finished with Archie Goodwin at DC. It’s a fine fine job of pushing a Hunt 102(I think) to it’s edge, looking at it, I assum,e Walt broke a few dozen pen points in inking it, wonderful hatching technique, cool reference, (do kids these days even know who Kurosawa is?) just the best lettering with cool storytelling effects like breaking the slice of the spider’s legs into three panels.

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The Temple of the Spider

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Weekly Life Drawing

The one good drawing out of a session
The one good drawing out of a session

If you get one drawing out of a session and it’s a five minute pose shouldn’t all my five minute drawings be perfect? Five minutes keeps it simple and I can just draw simple block structure and be done with it, how much more does one really need.

For time management your supossed to create goals for tasks that are doable but push your skill, in drawing comics can I set the goal of five minute figures and see it I can make it happen?

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The process of drawing

A head of Carabella
A head of Carabella
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Sumi brush drawings 2 min poses

2 minute sumi brush drawings
2 minute sumi brush drawings

Life drawing again, it’s shocking tome how much my “comics” style is derived from life drawing and two minute poses. I guess Andy helfer and Carl Potts always liked my life drawing better then my comics. Andy had a tiny little office that was a rathole in the yellow zip-a-toned walls of DC, when they re-modeled post Watchmen growth his assistant pulled all sorts of my life drawings out of the piles of paper that amassed there.

Somewhere I have a photo of Kyle Baker and I bringing flowers for the death of Helfer’s office, ahh the old days.