JSA #25 p 11 prelim on ebay

Here's yet another prelim, for JSA showing Black Adam fighting Isis!  Below is  the finished pencils for you to compare! Best,JER

New JSA prelims ebay auction

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Hey, here's another pair of prelims done for JSA#25. Compare to the finished pencils below, to see what gets tweaked and what stays the same!

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JSA#25 pages and prelims for comparisons

The prelims for these pages flowed pretty good, and fast, as it was near the end of the deadline:) Pressure loosens up the creativity many times.

Captain Marvel/Alter Ego#91 cover

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Here's a prelim for a special cover done for Alter Ego, where I would finish the main figure, and then Emilio Squeglio, a Fawcett artist of their glory days, would finish the image in the mirror. Emilio is a great guy, with an amazingly diverse career. Also a fun guy to talk to. Anyhow, next, you can see how this left my drawing board!

More JSA#25 page prelims and pencil comparisons

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These are two more pages of prelims for JSA, featuring Bad Billy, and Evil Mary:) Anyhow, they are for sale on ebay now, and also here for your viewing pleasure! Below are the finished pages as they left my drawing board.

This story is in the Black Adam and Isis trade collection, and the images and characters are trademark and copyright 2011 by DC Comics

JSA#25, pages 16-17 prelims on EBAY!

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Above are two preliminary drawings, used to create the actual pages in JSA.

Here are the pages as they left my table! Page 16 went to inker Bob Wiacek, while I inked page 17 myself, due to tight deadlines. I also inked other pages in the issue. With p 17, I recall that I printed my prelim out in blueline, on a sheet of Strathmore paper, and just inked, using a Hunt #102 crowquill, Pitt brushpen, and a brush loaded with Pelikan ink, to fill in black areas. P 16 I lightboxed in pencil.

Birds of Prey cover, with Batgirl!

Hey,
This cover was a fun one to draw, as it was a homage, or rip-off of a 60's DC cover! The editor, Mike Carlin, loved it, but then, editorial above him made him black out the Batgirl figure, for some reason that seemed important at that time. I know this is a business, and they need to sell comics, but moves like this are just pointless, and arbitrary. Plus they ruined a good cover.





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Superman/Gorilla Grodd prelim for trading card art on Ebay

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This is the sketch done for the art director at DC handling the Upper Deck "VS" series, and shows how to pack a lot of content into something that was printed a little larger than a postage stamp:) Below is the finished line art. Note that with something like this, you often have to "over-sell" the idea. Superman now has a bag of money in one hand, to help sell that he is robbing the bank, not just stealing a vault, while under Grodd's mind-control. Be careful around intelligent apes, I always say! Jer