Archive for the 'Fantastic Four' Tag

Boxpunx Marvel series 2 !

Friday, December 19th, 2008

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The wonderful Jason Edwards Harlan of Harlancore has just released series two of his delightful Marvel-themed Boxpunx foldables.  This series features the Fantastic Four, the Silver Surfer, Galactus, DareDevil, the Sub-Mariner and Nightcrawler.  They’re very easy to assembly and look cute as hell.

Don’t forget to check out Series 1, which is all Spidey and X-Men.

The Supers !

Wednesday, October 8th, 2008

This massive piece by Allan Sanders was shown at the Hot Rods And Hairy Beasts show at the Coningsby Gallery, London last week.  Click through to Allan’s site for a fuller size version.  This makes my day a little lighter !

And I feel a geek for tagging this post with all heroes in the picture…

Hank Ketcham’s Fantastic Four

Monday, April 21st, 2008

I like this.  ~DocShaner, who previously did the Watchmen-Peanuts mashup, now applied his talents to Denice The Menace and the Fantastic Four.  Neat !

(link : deviantART)

Steven De Rie

Sunday, March 23rd, 2008

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Flemish cartoonist Steven De Rie created this poster for the 20th edition of the Wilrijk Comics Festival. Try and find all references to characters and comics-related news items.

The Fantastic Three

Thursday, November 1st, 2007

The Fantastic Three are a French instrumental surf / rockabilly combo. I wonder where they got their name from…

Galactus is coming !

Sunday, July 1st, 2007

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Here’s another good one from the filler pile : the Coming of Galactus, retold as a Jack Chick tract. I laughed my ass of when I first read this after I got this on the old Comics Ephemerist grapevine..

Superhero Nursing Home

Thursday, January 18th, 2007

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This one was sent to me today, and I like it ! However, I haven’t got the faintest idea where it’s from. If you know, tell me !

!! Update !! Apparently, this is an artwork by the French artist Gilles Barbier, about whom Kim Levin writes in The Village Voice (july 28, 2003) :

“Or look left, at Gilles Barbier’s equally ambivalent and hilariously deadpan take on the American hero. In this French artist’s life-size tableau, Nursing Home, our beloved comic-book superheroes have been aged since the year of their tabloid births, as if fictional archetypes of invincibility were subject to mortality, too. The Incredible Hulk, flabby and in tatters, vegetates in a wheelchair. Catwoman dozes. Superman leans on a walker. Mr. Fantastic dangles his overstretched limbs. And Captain America lies comatose on a gurney, attended by a decrepit Wonder Woman. The TV plays, but the sound is pure golden oldies from the Platters. This piece isn’t subtle. But it’s deserved: An artist from “Old Europe” has succeeded in suggesting (tempus fugit, sic transit gloria mundi, gotcha!) that others may have a more sophisticated understanding of superpowerdom than we have ourselves.”

(Thanks, you-know-who)

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