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Every once in while while sketching I seem to drag out the old Frazetta wannabee chops and something like this appears. Then I realize how nobody can touch that guy when it comes to this sort of thing and even those who manage to ape the surface details fall so far short of the real deal. Artists often learn by copying those they like but maybe to their ultimate detriment if they don't move beyond the source and find their own way. But I may take this piece further and do a progress report just because, God help me it IS a fun artistic place to play once in a while. It's not a direct swipe of anything at least.
I heard they were doing an AVENGERS cartoon show and it got me itching to haul out the old Kirby chops one more time. Yeah, it ain't great but it took me way back just thinking about the original Avengers. At least Iron Man isn't wearing the VERY first suit!
Pete Von Sholly's storyboards for over 100 feature films include Dinotasia, Mars Attacks!, James and the Giant Peach, Darkman, The Mask, The Shawshank Redemption, The Blob, Nightmare on Elm Street III and IV, The Waterdance, The Green Mile, Click, The Mist and more. Pete has written and illustrated four graphic novels: Morbid, Morbid Volume 2 and Extremely Weird Stories, (Dark Horse Comics) and SPINECRAWLER from IDW- plus three satiric magazines for TwoMorrows, Crazy Hip Groovy Go Go Way Out Monsters (2 issues) and Comic Book Nerd which parodies comics fans and fanzines. Self-published titles from Vonshollywood Press include Sergeanstein, Dinosaur Circus and Here Doesn't Come the Flying F-ck. UPDATE- Pete has a pile of books coming next year (and later this one) from PS Publications including a collection of his gag cartoons, Fabulous Fictioneers: A History of the Incredible, several illustrated versions of classic Lovecraft stories and covers for Jess Nevins’ The Encyclopedia of Pulp Heroes and also a cover for S.T. Joshi’s novel The Assaults of Chaos from Hippocampus. His epic foldout mural Pete Von Sholly’s History Of Monsters is forthcoming from Abrams as well