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Published: 2009-09-21 16:08:27 +0000 UTC; Views: 13729; Favourites: 489; Downloads: 451
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This is the piece that landed me the Manthing gig I did with J.M DeMatteis a decade back. Again it was coloured - and very nicely too - but I still prefer it in black and white.Another career high point this one I think.
L.
NOTE: This piece has had WAAAAAY more favs and views than the page I posted from the X-Men issue I drew many years ago [link] It's Great to see Manthing trounce the X-Men!!! LOL!
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No need to thank me, it's pretty damn sweet. I might just have to color this one myself (even though you prefer it black and white).
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the details on this piece is just UN-FREAKIN-BELIEVABLE! which makes one question: why don't Marvel do another Man-Thing proj...and with you on board...
that or DC's Swamp Thing's also a great target!
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Sadly Manthing never sold much - EVER. People just won't buy it. Great shame.
I've never done Swampthing. Would be great.
L.
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i think the direct reference to Vertigo's groundbreaking Swamp Thing ain't gonna be any help for that concept. i'm still actually pondering why Marvel even created Man-Thing when people will react to it being an obvious copycat.
i think you'd be perfect on SwampThing...even Hellblazer!
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Manthing and Swampthing were created the same weekend in the same flat during the 1970s, and taken to the rival publishing houses. They are almost identical when it comes to the story origins, but otherwise very different as characters. I always had a soft spot for Manthing over Swampthing, but then Alan Moore started writing Swampthing and everything changed... Manthing never had a chance after that, though J.M DeMatteis and I gave it our best shot! The most fun I ever had on a series, period.
Best,
L.
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oh, now that I didn't know. thanks for the info. yeah, Alan just brought the house old house down on comics and ushered in a new era. and he fathered Vertigo, and help welcome all ye bloody brilliant brit folks...and the comics landscape was never the same again!
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Did you ink this? It looks very crowquilly and like something that Danny Miki or Jon Sibal would do. Still I like it it adds a solidity to your work, plus the crosshatching is cool as well.
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Yup, my inks. I was trying to be more contemporary at the time, but it still has Barry Smith elements!
L.
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Wow that is amazing... I think that if you combine some nib work with your brush work it would be the best thing since sliced bread. Of course it would take a lot longer...
BTW I read the interview I totally agreed with this :
Itβs changed beyond recognition almost. In the seventies Moebius, Druillet, Bilal and Corben were like the kings of prog-art, doing vast sprawling epics with no editorial constraints, no limits to possibility. Thatβs what I really wanted to do. In the eighties we got amazing writers and visionary artists combined β Moore, Sienkewicz, McKean, Frank Miller, Ted McKeever. Stylistic works that broke the mould like Dark Knight, Electra Assassin, Stray Toastersβ¦ incredible work. In the nineties we got Jim Lee and Image, which my career launched off the back of.
Also I'd love to see you do a Liam comic...if I win the lottery I'd publish it. I can't understand why Dark Horse won't give you a conan gig. Or why Todd McFarlane fucked you over like that... Especially since one of the reasons that he started Image was because of bullshit like that!
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You almost got me back into buying comics with your Man-Thing work. Unfortunately my local shop at the time stopped selling it after issue 3 so that ended everything (it was hard for me to travel around looking for the books back then). The work produced for the first 3 books I spent many nights trying to replicate.
To this day my favorite depiction of Man-Thing. Too bad he just can't seem to have a long lasting series. Ever.
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Yeah, it was sad. I worked damn hard on that stuff. he stupid thing was it launched at 40,000 copies when they predicted only 20,000. During the run it dropped to 20,000 copies - so the canned it. WTF? LOL! Why launch it in the first place? It was doing well!!!!
Thanks for the kind words and take care,
L.
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Seeing how the artists changed for each issue of the Dead of Night mini from a few years ago, I was hoping you would have been announced as tackling the character one more time for the series.
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Poor big guy... he looks a little sad. Think he wants a hug?
Nice work, its easy to over do details and hatching in something like this but you keept a very nice balance
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Manthing ALWAYS looked a little sad to me.
L.
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I can never tell the difference between Manthing and Swampthing...
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One's dumb and burns you if you're scared, the other is a super-brainy planet-saving hippy. Otherwise they're pretty much the same. Both invented the same weekend in the same flat legend has it...
L.
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Okay, yeah heard that story too, that the creators were roomates or something. But both really reminds me of The Heap, an old swamp/man/monster too. Wonder if the creators knew about that character?
By the way Liam, ever done any work on a Hellblazer och The Question Comic?
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Your welcome!
R.R.
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