Art Show: Me Tarzan

This is How They Getcha



Artist Unknown [Admiral Calvin]

Treehouse



Artist Unknown [Animation Backgrounds has a ton of cool background art from Disney's Tarzan.]

Tarzan and Jane



[Golden Age Comic Book Stories ran a fantastic post full of classic Hollywood romance for Valentine's Day. There's some Captain Blood in there too.]

T-Rex Love



By Mathieu Reynès.

Doctor No



By Michael Gilette (beware of music in that link). I know I've shared his fantastic Bond covers before, but they're always worth revisiting.

Batgirl



By Ted Naifeh.

Batman



By Victor Santos.

Alpha Flight



By John Byrne. [Giant-Size Marvel]

The Headless Horseman



By Francesco Francavilla.

Native Drums



By Genevieve Tsai.

Art Show: Waaaallttt!

The Black Buccaneer



By Mead Schaeffer. [Golden Age Comic Book Stories]

Lost Island



By Greg Ham.

Centrosaurus brinkmani



By Mark Schultz [Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs]

GI Robot



By Declan Shalvey. [Comic Twart]

Bat Noir



By Andy Kubert. [DC Universe: The Source]

Daphne



By Kristin Palach. There seems to be a movement lately to proclaim Velma as the hot one, but Linda Cardellini aside, those people are crazy.

Hulk



By Otis Frampton.

Zatanna and the Demon



By Josh Eddings.

Mary Marvel



By Chris Samnee.

Painter of AHHHHHHH!



Artist Unknown, but Thomas Kinkade should be taking notes. [Brother Cal]

Gorillas Riding Dinosaurs is Migrating

If you're used to reading my Gorillas Riding Dinosaurs column at Robot 6 on Wednesdays (or Thursdays, Fridays, or Saturdays, for that matter), don't be alarmed when you don't see it this week. It's moving to Sundays.

That's actually a really cool thing, both for my writing schedule and for the column itself. We originally tried to keep columns off the weekends, thinking that most people weren't reading then, but that hasn't been the case and the weekends have turned out to be pretty high in traffic. To beef up that part of the week (and relieve some congestion on the weekdays), GRD and Brigid Alverson's webcomic column, Unbound, are making the switch.

Related to that, I was trying to think of something cool to illustrate this post with and realized how nice it would be if there was more art in the world depicting gorillas riding dinosaurs. I think I've found the theme for my next convention sketchbook.

Art Show: Mermaid Party

I don't find a little tasteful nakedness offensive, so I don't usually warn about it, but there's more than usual in today's post. If that makes you uncomfortable, you might want to skip this one.

Deep Water Days



By Richard Rogers [Tons more like it at Golden Age Comic Book Stories]

Mermaids



By Wil Cormier. [Never Sea Land]

Aquaman Hates Cephalopods



You might think that he doesn't, but this collection of covers at Dollar Bin Blues tells a different story. This one's by Butch Guice.

Ruins



By Travis Hanson.

GI Robot



By Chris Samnee. [Comic Twart]



By Francesco Francavilla. [Comic Twart]

Reed Gunther



Remember that bear-riding cowboy from earlier? Mike Maihack's also a fan.

Youth and Her Glory



By Danni Shinya Luo.

Zatanna Comes to Life



By Stephane Roux.

Forest



By Mathieu Reynès.

Art Show: Why Michael May Loves Dr. Dinosaur

I've got this huge backlog of art links, so if it's okay with you guys I think I'll spend the next few days clearing them out.

Pirates



By Jeremy Vanhoozer.

Space Frog



By Wally Wood [Golden Age Comic Book Stories]

Rima, the Jungle Girl



By Rags Morales. [DC Universe: The Source]

La of Opar



By Gene Gonzales.

TV Heads



By Frank R Paul. [Golden Age Comic Book Stories]

Therizinosaurs through the Years



By Tricia Arnold. My son likes to ask me what my favorite dinosaur is a couple of times a day. I keep changing my mind, but about 40% of the time, it's therizinosaurus. I like how he's baffled paleontologists as they've tried to figure out what he looks like, but mostly I just love the claws. [Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs]

Dr. Dinosaur



By Scott Wegener.

The Wolf Man



By Martin Ansin. [/Film]

Zatanna and Batman



By Dustin Nguyen. [Comic Art Community]

Thor



By Otis Frampton.

Art Show: The Siren's Call

Mermaids



By Frank Espinosa. Man, I miss Rocketo. [Swing with Shad has four other mermaid comics covers in addition to this one.]



By Dugald Stewart Walker [Golden Age Comic Book Stories]



By Kristin Palach.

Island Girl



Also by Kristin Palach.

Lara vs T-Rex



By Otis Frampton.

Rocketeer vs Ornithocheirus



By Tom Fowler.

Rocketeer vs WWI Flying Ace



By Francesco Francavilla.

Valkyrie



By Arthur Rackham. [Golden Age Comic Book Stories]

Xena and Gabby



Also by Otis Frampton.

Alice in Wonderland



By Ted Naifeh.

Quotes of the Week: In Which Wonder Woman Becomes a Professional Stripper

Photo by Mayka Mei.

Once a week, some combination of Dan DiDio, Rich Johnston and John Hodgman would try to expose the figurehead for what he is, always to be outfoxed by [DC Entertainment President Diane] Nelson and the [quirkily handsome] actor, who in turn develop a simmering sexual tension that erupts in season three in a special Angouleme episode.
--Tom Spurgeon, simultaneously describing what I wish would've happened when DC announced its new Publisher and creating a TV show that I would watch every week.

He doesn’t realize it would mostly result in stories where Wonder Woman becomes a professional stripper, beats the shit out of some ponies, then retires to bed in a shoebox with Ken lying perfectly still on top of her.
-- Shaenon Garrity, on why writing a Wonder Woman comic around a nine-year-old girl's playtime would be a bad idea.

His writing won a bunch of distinguished awards last year. By day, he works at Whole Foods cutting up pineapple samples. Somehow, this made INTERN feel terribly excited about the world, because she realized that geniuses are lurking everywhere, that there is indeed a kind of Secret Society of geniuses working at everyday jobs, and they are all too friendly and humble to mention that their work was recently featured in the New Yorker when you ask them in which aisle to find the quinoa, but if you look very carefully at their eyes you can sometimes tell...
--The mysterious INTERN, in a wonderful story about meeting one of her favorite, young authors.