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Frank Cho
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 Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 2:33 am Post subject: Madman - unpublished pinup |
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I'm still recovering from the Chicago Wizard World Comicon. It's unbelievable how much work piles up in such a short time.
This here's a forgotten art from Dave Colombo's vast art collection. (And I do mean vast. It's like the freakin' Smithsonian for comic and Simpson art.) It's my unfinished Madman pinup that was originally intended for Mike Allred's artbook. For whatever reason, I abandoned it during the pencil stage. (The figures didn't look right to me and I had trouble capturing the girl's likeness.)
The "Toaster Fight" image was finished and published instead.
Dave bribed me to ink the Madman figure when I was in Iowa, signing at Mayhem's Comic shop in Ames many moons ago.
I don't know what he bribed me with, but it gotta been good.
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Halbred
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| Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 11:29 am Post subject: |
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| Looks like Don Draper quit Sterling Cooper and took on a life of crime-fighting! |
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Nightcrawler86
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| Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 12:01 pm Post subject: |
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I've got to say, the girl has a bit of an oh-my-god-Madman-is-going-to-rape-me-look on her face. 
Still an awesome pic, Frank! |
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brows76
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| Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 1:51 pm Post subject: |
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| did you talk to mike allred at chicago frank. He was fairly close to your booth. |
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bwhiz
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| Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 3:46 pm Post subject: |
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Dave C. is the man. So bummed I missed out on that! Hey Dave, I visit Chicago all the time (got lots of family there). Just let me know the museum's hours.  |
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art4
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| Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 8:01 pm Post subject: Re: Madman |
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Damn Frank! It looks great. But, couldn't you have drawn her wearing a thong?  |
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skull island
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Location: Tokyo
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| Posted: Thu Aug 13, 2009 9:22 pm Post subject: bribe? |
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Okay Dave, give!
What did ya bribe him with?!
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bwhiz
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| Posted: Fri Aug 14, 2009 1:59 am Post subject: Re: bribe? |
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| skull island wrote: | Okay Dave, give!
What did ya bribe him with?! |
A bevy of zaftig ladies? |
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DAVEINATOR
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| Posted: Fri Aug 14, 2009 6:13 pm Post subject: |
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I'm sure it was food. Probably steak. We were actually in Des Moines. Frank did a signing in Ames the day before. I was running late and got to the Des Moines Mayhem store with about an hour left in the signing. I had gotten the pencils from him in Baltimore the year before but forgot to get him to sign it. I brought it with to get signed. No one else was in line. He pulled out his trusty #8 Micron to sign the pencils and just went to town. No one was there and he was bored. We then went and ate cooked meat. I really like that it is unfinished. Most of Franks pencils are destroyed when he inks them now and I like this rare look into his working process.
I also think he nailed the look of Madman and Joe. What you can't see in the scan is his loose pencils of a giant skull behind them and all hell breaking loose around them.
HE DAVE - Master Of His Tiny Universe
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Frank Cho
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| Posted: Fri Aug 14, 2009 7:03 pm Post subject: Re: bribe? |
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| skull island wrote: | Okay Dave, give!
What did ya bribe him with?! |
Steak, shoebox full of twenties, and some corn-fed Iowian beauties. I think. I could be wrong.
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