Monday, January 26, 2009

BOMBS AWAY!



If you're and artist that does comic commissions, it is unavoidable that you will be doing some of the same popular characters over and over again. I understand that, but it's always great to get to do something unusual or draw an obscure character...a couple of recent commissions hit both marks! Michael Rankins has started to put together a cool collection of golden age heroines he calls Bombshells rendered in a nose art kind of format so I was glad to jump on board. I knew Valkyrie from the Dave Stevens cover of course, but I'd never seen or heard of Moongirl before...I like that!

10 comments:

Sam G said...

Great work. Have you picked up "Brush with Passion: The art and life of Dave Stevens" yet? Good stuff.

~ tOkKa said...

-->> Ah so pretty ..

.. goin' steady with one of those girls,

a date which would live in infamy.

( sorry couldn't help myself .)

..>v<

Brian said...

Great job on both pieces, Mike.

AnthonyF said...

Fun additions to Michael's theme! Is that Moon Girl from EC comics...Yeah, quite obscure! Nice job on a dated costume.

Michael Dooney said...

Haven't gotten the Stevens book yet, but I did order it from Amazon with some of the $ I got from my last commission....yeah the $ go right back to the babes ;)

I'd never seen Moon Girl before, but yeah she is from EC. I had no idea they did any superhero books. From the the limited info online about her it seemed like she might have been Asian , so I tried to give her slightly exotic eyes.

Matt Smith said...

Holy cow, Mike!

Fantastic work as always, man.

I'm calling the devil now to get rid of that soul I'm not using for a touch of the Dooney skills.

Michael Dooney said...

Too late Matt, I've seen your blog, you must have sold your soul long ago, damn you ;)

Jim Lawson said...

I always was a fan of women ridin' giant projectiles.

bpresing said...

These are top notch.

Michael Dooney said...

thanks Bill, you hadn't updated your blog in a while and I was starting to worry about you ;)