Showing posts with label original art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label original art. Show all posts

Friday, November 6, 2020

Happy Birthday, Jim Steranko!

 Thursday was the great Jim Steranko's 82nd birthday! His style, his innovations, his craftsmanship, his dedication to perfection in comicbook art has made his name synonymous with great comics art (and book cover art, and magazine layout, and...). He helped usher in the Groovy Age (with his work on Nick Fury in Strange Tales) and still wows us to this day. Happy birthday, Mr. S.! 












Friday, August 7, 2020

Marvel-ous Stuff

Happy August! How about for a change of pace, let's plant our peepers on a good, old-fashioned pile of  Marvel-ous images? 













Can you dig it?

Friday, January 3, 2020

Welcome to the brand new, 2020 model Diversions of the Groovy Kind! Ol' Groove hopes you dig the new weekly format! Onward, Groove-ophiles!


Hey, Kids! Comics from 50 Years Ago! 

January 1, 1970













 

Groovy Age Splash Page of the Week

Superman Vs. Spider-Man #1 (January 1976). Art by Ross Andru and Dick Giordano (with Terry Austin)

Groovy Age Spotlight On...
The Iron Fist of John Byrne!
One of Young Groove's favorite mid-70s mags was Iron Fist. Before they went on to super-stardom on X-Men, scripter Chris Claremont and penciler John Byrne knocked my socks off with their marvel-ous combo of soap opera, super-heroics, and kung-fu action. Looking back, it's STILL one of Ol' Groove's fave Groovy Age mags, and Mr. Byrne's fun, funky, and energetic art is definitely one of the main reasons! Check out these brilliant pieces of original art found scattered hither and yon round about the interwebs...


IF #12, inks by Dan Adkins
IF #6, inks by Frank Chiaramonte

IF #6, inks by Frank Chiaramonte

IF #9, inks by Frank Chiaramonte

IF #11, inks by Dan Adkins

IF #11, inks by Dan Adkins
Inks by Terry Austin

And best of all, here's the UNUSED BYRNE COVER for IF  #11!


That's all for this week, Groove-ophiles! Let us know what you think about the new, weekly Diversions of the Groovy Kind in the comments! And please be sure to keep checking for new updates for the new Diversions comic mag coming in early 2020! Ol' Groove's hoping you're gonna dig it the most! See ya next weekend! Pax, baby!

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Special thanks to Mike's Amazing World of Comics and Grand Comics Database for being such fantastic resources for covers, dates, creator info, etc. Thou art treasures true!


Note to "The Man": All images are presumed copyright by the respective copyright holders and are presented here as fair use under applicable laws, man! If you hold the copyright to a work I've posted and would like me to remove it, just drop me an e-mail and it's gone, baby, gone.


All other commentary and insanity copyright GroovyAge, Ltd.

As for the rest of ya, the purpose of this blog is to (re)introduce you to the great comics of the 1970s. If you like what you see, do what I do--go to a comics shop, bookstore, e-Bay or whatever and BUY YOUR OWN!