KEN LANDGRAF - The Great Ape GARGANTUA Chomped Down On My Throat - Wunda Peril
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AUCTION IS A 11 BY 17 DRAWING IN INDIA INK . IN MY BRONZE AGE BRUSH RENDERING STYLE . BID NOW AND OWN AN ORIGINAL DRAWING BY AN ARTIST WHO DREW A NOW FAMOUS WOLVERINE STORY FOR MARVEL COMICS DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF THE GREAT GIL KANE - RICH BUCKLER AND JOHN BUSCEMA - TWO OF THE GREATEST DYNAMIC PANTHER ARTISTS Geee we have lost so many of the great comic book men... Russ Heath .. Sam Glanzman... Bernie Wrigh...tson...
Marie Severin... almost all of my boyhood idols are now gone, .. Hell I EVEN did art for dc with Len Wein as my editor. Giordano and joe Orlando hired me at DC Comics ... I use to watch Neal Adams draw and ink... I met Wally Wood several times. Jack Able would let me watch him ink Iron Man ... Marie Severin was a wonderful kind woman who would help us your would be artists out. giving me photo copies of art to study... Gil Kane my main mentor took me on as an assistant to help out on 70's Conan Ron Wilson who let me do background art on his Luke Cage stories.... Howard Nostrand who let me actually pencil a whole page for John Target manhunter. for ... Rich Buckler a great figure artist took me on as an assistant for 2 years and made me into a professional artist... Mike Kaluta who let me and my brother watch him draw a Shadow comic book lat into the night. Dan Adkins master inker who invited me to dinner and I watched him ink John Byrne's Iron fist... Stan Lee who I approached in the Street and sent me put to have John Romita give me advice....
up for AUCTION IS A 11 BY 17 DRAWING IN INDIA INK . IN MY BRONZE AGE BRUSH RENDERING STYLE . BID NOW AND OWN AN ORIGINAL DRAWING BY AN ARTIST WHO DREW A NOW FAMOUS WOLVERINE STORY FOR MARVEL COMICS - I GOT MY START WITH MARVEL WHEN I SPOTTED STAN LEE COMING OUT OF THE BUILDING.... I TOLD HIM I JSUT GOT OUT OF THE NAVY FROM VIET NAM AND I WANTED TO DRAW FOR MARVEL... HE SAID HE WAS GOING TO LUNCH BUT I COULD GO UP AND SHOW MY WORK TO JOHN ROMITA ...THE REST IS COMIC BOOK HISTORY
I DREW THE OFTEN REPRINTED WOLVERINE VS HERCULES FOR MARVEL RECENTLY REPRINTED IN WOLVERINE OMNIBUS I ALSO DREW HAWKMAN - AND NIGHT WING AND FLAMEBIRD I HOPE TO GET YOUR BID !!!
ONE DAY I WENT TO VISIT JOHN BUSCEMA'S DRAWING CLASS HOW TO DRAW THE MARVEL WAY... JOHN LIKED ME AND LET NME AUDIT THE CLASS... I TALKED TO HIM AFTER THE CLASS AND TOLD HIM HOW MUCH I LIKED HIS DELL HERCULES COMIC THAT HE DREW IN THE 60'S HE MENTIONED THAT HE LOOKED AT BURNE HOGARTH'S SUNDAY TARZAN TO LEARN BACK MUSCLES... TO HIS DAY I CAN SEE THAT IN HIS DRAWING OF BACKS ...
WHEN I WENT TO BOOT CAMP IN CHICAGO I WAS ON THE FIRING RANGE MISSING THE TARGET.... THE DRILL SGT CAME UP TO ME AND KICKED ME IN THE ASS !!! YELLING AT ME !!!HE THEN TOLD ME HOW TO USE THE RIFLE.... LINING UP THE TARGET - THEN I FIRED AND HIT THE BULL'S EYE FIVE TIMES IN A ROW !!!! HE SAID HE NEVER SAW ANYTHING LIKE THAT !!!! SOME MORE INFO ABOUT ME... I WORKED AS AN ASSISTANT TO GIL KANE ... RICH BUCKLER... HOWARD NOSTRAND... these boys all showed me the ropes on how to be a professional ARTIST...AND MARIE FRIGGIN' SEVERIN ... A WONDERFUL BEAUTIFUL WOMAN THAT HELPED US YOUNGER BOY ARTISTS TO BECOME ACUTAL PRO COMIC ARTISTS...
I LOVE WALLY WOOD - DAN ADKINS - BURNE HOGARTH - MONTES AND BACHE - WRIGHTSON - RICH BUCKLER - JOHN BUSCEMA - ALBERTO GIOLETTI - GIL KANE
I WENT UP TO DC COMICS AND ART DIRECTOR VINCE COLLETTA TOLD ME I WAS ABOUT A MONTH AWAY FROM GETTING WORKI WALKED DOWN THE HALL AND PAUL LEVITS SAID WHAT HAVE YOU GOT IN THAT PORTFOLIO ?? I SHOWED HIM THE PAGES AND HE SAID LET ME TAKE THESE AND SHOW THEM TO ORLANDO AND GIORDANO !!!!
THEY CAME OUT OF THE OFFICE AND SAID DO YOU WANT TO DRAW HAWKMAN ???? !!! THAT'S THE FIRST JOB I DID ! I THEN I THOUGHT GEE I'VE GOT TO FOLLOW JOE KUBERT - MURPHY ANDERSON!!!!! I HAD TO GET REALLY GOOD FAST !!!!!
THE WOLVERINE VS HERCULES... JIM SHOOTER GAVE ME THE MARY JO DUFFY SCRIPT ... IT WAS THE FIRST APPEARANCE OF WOLVIE IN A SOLO STORY WHAT GREAT LUCK ON MY PART !!!! THANKS JIM !!!!!
some facts about me ; i was also an assistant to howard nostrand.... neal adams inked me three times on rock comics and star fighters george perez inked me on wolverine vs hercules at the sign of the lion....i have been inked by romeo thangal who was the main perez inker on the teen titans. i was assistant to rich buckler and i drew most of the dinosaurs on the dc special .... i worked on tv for bill cosby's mysteries and law and order ... i was story board artist on adventures of the galaxy rangers
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Marie Severin... almost all of my boyhood idols are now gone, .. Hell I EVEN did art for dc with Len Wein as my editor. Giordano and joe Orlando hired me at DC Comics ... I use to watch Neal Adams draw and ink... I met Wally Wood several times. Jack Able would let me watch him ink Iron Man ... Marie Severin was a wonderful kind woman who would help us your would be artists out. giving me photo copies of art to study... Gil Kane my main mentor took me on as an assistant to help out on 70's Conan Ron Wilson who let me do background art on his Luke Cage stories.... Howard Nostrand who let me actually pencil a whole page for John Target manhunter. for ... Rich Buckler a great figure artist took me on as an assistant for 2 years and made me into a professional artist... Mike Kaluta who let me and my brother watch him draw a Shadow comic book lat into the night. Dan Adkins master inker who invited me to dinner and I watched him ink John Byrne's Iron fist... Stan Lee who I approached in the Street and sent me put to have John Romita give me advice....
up for AUCTION IS A 11 BY 17 DRAWING IN INDIA INK . IN MY BRONZE AGE BRUSH RENDERING STYLE . BID NOW AND OWN AN ORIGINAL DRAWING BY AN ARTIST WHO DREW A NOW FAMOUS WOLVERINE STORY FOR MARVEL COMICS - I GOT MY START WITH MARVEL WHEN I SPOTTED STAN LEE COMING OUT OF THE BUILDING.... I TOLD HIM I JSUT GOT OUT OF THE NAVY FROM VIET NAM AND I WANTED TO DRAW FOR MARVEL... HE SAID HE WAS GOING TO LUNCH BUT I COULD GO UP AND SHOW MY WORK TO JOHN ROMITA ...THE REST IS COMIC BOOK HISTORY
I DREW THE OFTEN REPRINTED WOLVERINE VS HERCULES FOR MARVEL RECENTLY REPRINTED IN WOLVERINE OMNIBUS I ALSO DREW HAWKMAN - AND NIGHT WING AND FLAMEBIRD I HOPE TO GET YOUR BID !!!
ONE DAY I WENT TO VISIT JOHN BUSCEMA'S DRAWING CLASS HOW TO DRAW THE MARVEL WAY... JOHN LIKED ME AND LET NME AUDIT THE CLASS... I TALKED TO HIM AFTER THE CLASS AND TOLD HIM HOW MUCH I LIKED HIS DELL HERCULES COMIC THAT HE DREW IN THE 60'S HE MENTIONED THAT HE LOOKED AT BURNE HOGARTH'S SUNDAY TARZAN TO LEARN BACK MUSCLES... TO HIS DAY I CAN SEE THAT IN HIS DRAWING OF BACKS ...
WHEN I WENT TO BOOT CAMP IN CHICAGO I WAS ON THE FIRING RANGE MISSING THE TARGET.... THE DRILL SGT CAME UP TO ME AND KICKED ME IN THE ASS !!! YELLING AT ME !!!HE THEN TOLD ME HOW TO USE THE RIFLE.... LINING UP THE TARGET - THEN I FIRED AND HIT THE BULL'S EYE FIVE TIMES IN A ROW !!!! HE SAID HE NEVER SAW ANYTHING LIKE THAT !!!! SOME MORE INFO ABOUT ME... I WORKED AS AN ASSISTANT TO GIL KANE ... RICH BUCKLER... HOWARD NOSTRAND... these boys all showed me the ropes on how to be a professional ARTIST...AND MARIE FRIGGIN' SEVERIN ... A WONDERFUL BEAUTIFUL WOMAN THAT HELPED US YOUNGER BOY ARTISTS TO BECOME ACUTAL PRO COMIC ARTISTS...
I LOVE WALLY WOOD - DAN ADKINS - BURNE HOGARTH - MONTES AND BACHE - WRIGHTSON - RICH BUCKLER - JOHN BUSCEMA - ALBERTO GIOLETTI - GIL KANE
I WENT UP TO DC COMICS AND ART DIRECTOR VINCE COLLETTA TOLD ME I WAS ABOUT A MONTH AWAY FROM GETTING WORKI WALKED DOWN THE HALL AND PAUL LEVITS SAID WHAT HAVE YOU GOT IN THAT PORTFOLIO ?? I SHOWED HIM THE PAGES AND HE SAID LET ME TAKE THESE AND SHOW THEM TO ORLANDO AND GIORDANO !!!!
THEY CAME OUT OF THE OFFICE AND SAID DO YOU WANT TO DRAW HAWKMAN ???? !!! THAT'S THE FIRST JOB I DID ! I THEN I THOUGHT GEE I'VE GOT TO FOLLOW JOE KUBERT - MURPHY ANDERSON!!!!! I HAD TO GET REALLY GOOD FAST !!!!!
THE WOLVERINE VS HERCULES... JIM SHOOTER GAVE ME THE MARY JO DUFFY SCRIPT ... IT WAS THE FIRST APPEARANCE OF WOLVIE IN A SOLO STORY WHAT GREAT LUCK ON MY PART !!!! THANKS JIM !!!!!
some facts about me ; i was also an assistant to howard nostrand.... neal adams inked me three times on rock comics and star fighters george perez inked me on wolverine vs hercules at the sign of the lion....i have been inked by romeo thangal who was the main perez inker on the teen titans. i was assistant to rich buckler and i drew most of the dinosaurs on the dc special .... i worked on tv for bill cosby's mysteries and law and order ... i was story board artist on adventures of the galaxy rangers
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