Okay but what is Man O Metal doing to his nipple on the cover?
It’s the stopper from the bottle he’s pouring Hydroman out of. But yeah, I’m guessing the artist drew a nipple on him, decided he didn’t like it, but it was 4:45 on a Friday and his white-out was all dried up.
I like the art on Man o’ Metal; the anatomy’s a mess but there’s something striking about it, it doesn’t have the same house style look as everything else after it. I’m surprised it’s from the 1940s; if you told me that first page was a goof from a ’60s underground and the second one was somebody imitating ’70s Neal Adams I’d believe you.
I think the second Hydroman strip is the best-looking of the lot, though. They made the right call picking those two for the cover.
My favorite kind of Seanbabying.
Wait a second…
Is that “panda” kind of like what Dürer did with the rhino, in that someone only descriptor to him what a rhino was, and he created that magnificent beast (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dürer's_Rhinoceros).
So, did a conversation go something like this:
Artist: What in the hell is a panda?
Other artist: I dunno. Like Winnie the Pooh.
A: Fool! There is no menace from Winnie the Pooh!
OA: Good point. I guess we’ll need to make something up.
A: Sounds good to me. So what does a “panda” look like?
OA: Okay, take a weasel.
A: Got it.
OA: But only the head and face and stuff.
A: Uh huh.
OA: Slap it onto the body of a pig. But not a big, fat pig. One of those big but svelte pigs.
A: I’m with you.
OA: Then…I dunno…make the whole thing white, like a polar bear?
A, sketching away: I see where you are going.
OA: But put like black patches around the eyes, like a harlequin mask.
A: So it’s like a kitty cat?
OA: Yeah, but a huge kitty cat!
A, finishing the sketch: Got it. Okay, look at this thing and you can feel the menace oozing off the page!
OA: Umm…fuck it, close enough. And it’s almost whiskey o’clock.
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Okay but what is Man O Metal doing to his nipple on the cover?
It’s the stopper from the bottle he’s pouring Hydroman out of. But yeah, I’m guessing the artist drew a nipple on him, decided he didn’t like it, but it was 4:45 on a Friday and his white-out was all dried up.
I like the art on Man o’ Metal; the anatomy’s a mess but there’s something striking about it, it doesn’t have the same house style look as everything else after it. I’m surprised it’s from the 1940s; if you told me that first page was a goof from a ’60s underground and the second one was somebody imitating ’70s Neal Adams I’d believe you.
I think the second Hydroman strip is the best-looking of the lot, though. They made the right call picking those two for the cover.
My favorite kind of Seanbabying.
Wait a second…
Is that “panda” kind of like what Dürer did with the rhino, in that someone only descriptor to him what a rhino was, and he created that magnificent beast (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dürer's_Rhinoceros).
So, did a conversation go something like this:
Artist: What in the hell is a panda?
Other artist: I dunno. Like Winnie the Pooh.
A: Fool! There is no menace from Winnie the Pooh!
OA: Good point. I guess we’ll need to make something up.
A: Sounds good to me. So what does a “panda” look like?
OA: Okay, take a weasel.
A: Got it.
OA: But only the head and face and stuff.
A: Uh huh.
OA: Slap it onto the body of a pig. But not a big, fat pig. One of those big but svelte pigs.
A: I’m with you.
OA: Then…I dunno…make the whole thing white, like a polar bear?
A, sketching away: I see where you are going.
OA: But put like black patches around the eyes, like a harlequin mask.
A: So it’s like a kitty cat?
OA: Yeah, but a huge kitty cat!
A, finishing the sketch: Got it. Okay, look at this thing and you can feel the menace oozing off the page!
OA: Umm…fuck it, close enough. And it’s almost whiskey o’clock.