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A week of art (Spanish edition): Albert Monteys

(Where, in order to try and keep posting during a particularly busy period, I resort back to art galleries)

This time, however, I decided to post some art from Spanish creators. Some of them internationally famous, others not so much but they probably deserve more attention.

We start with Albert Monteys, an amazing and really funny cartoonist. Even though he did a couple of pages for Vertigo in the past (The Dreaming #55 and The Sandman Presents: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Dreams…But Were Afraid to Ask), he seems perfectly happy working on his own stuff back in Spain (where he works in the weekly comic magazine El Jueves while putting out some other stuff on the side).

Take a look around his Tumblr account, the same place where I found these delightful illustrations he published as a print set (Fin de Liga or End of League):

These are 5 of the 8 prints that you can purchase here. Highly recommended creator if you can get anything by him.

Jack Kirby’s Ghost Rider

I confess I was unaware about this until a while ago, but Jack Kirby drew 3 covers for the Ghost Rider back in the 70’s, so I decided to put them in this scrapbook of the subconscious that I call website:

Mr Didio: Roger Langridge and Plastic Man … Make it happen!

Not a lot of time left for posting since I came back from holidays, but this I had to show you: Roger Langridge’s Plastic Man.

All the image come from his website, where he also sells his original art … and if you are into original art, then just go and order something, as they are more than reasonably priced. I also got an extra sketch on my order … Mr. Langridge is a true class act!

I wonder if he would come out of his self-imposed work-for-hire retirement for Plas? I would certainly buy it …

Urban Heroes: The Savage Skulls

So, here we are again, this time back to biker gangs (if I do enough of these, I think a gang map will be necessary) … We move to Florida this time, to meet the Savage Skulls (from Team America #2, available anywhere with a quarter bin).

Things start off manly enough: Wolf is trying to become part of the Savage Skulls …

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It is at this moment that, Len and his sister Georgianna interrupt a conversation between a bunch of semi-naked guys who were fighting with chains one minute before. Even though Wolf tries to get Len to leave (“Amigo, estas loco!”), it’s too late … The Savage Skulls are all about taking advantage of easy preys (presented here in animated stereovision in a futile effort to maintain the dynamism):

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After that, things get confusing and only people who care about Team America will care, and let’s face it, nobody does … Suffice it to say that the Savage Skulls live to see another day!!!

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Four-wheeled Wonders of Comics: The Anti-Mobile and the Errorcar

As part of an effort to catalog all things forgotten in the world of comics, we start a new section dedicated to the incredible vehicles in the different comics universe. There’s not much of a plan for this section yet, but I was reading the wonderful World’s Finest #159 when I noticed that both stories there (both the main Superman and Batman feature and the Green Arrow reprint) featured absolutely insane cars. My initial thought was ‘What are the chances?’ and then immediately ‘I need to find out’, so we will try to see if there’s anything better, car-related, than this issue.

The magic in this book starts with the cover:

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What’s that? Grant Morrison wrote comics back in the 60’s under a fake name? It possibly hasn’t happened yet!

The whole issue is brilliant from start to finish, with the convoluted secret origins of the Anti-Superman and the Anti-Batman being hard to explain in mere words. You could do worse things than getting yourself a copy (Showcase Presents World’s Finest Vol. 3 or Superman/Batman: The Greatest Stories Ever Told, Vol. 1, I don’t think they include the Green Arrow backup, though).

Of course, if we are talking about cars about the Anti-Batman, that can only mean one thing … Ladies and gentlemen, I give you … the Anti-Mobile!

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And from the backup reprint of Green Arrow (who actually had his own Showcase volume reprinting this story: Showcase Presents: Green Arrow, Vol. 1), from a story that involves a clown version of Green Arrow (following up on the birth of the Bizarros in the Superman comics the previous year) and a gang of furries stealing the Arrowmobile, the Errorcar:

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Appendix: And just in case someone thinks I am making this stuff up, here are the furries:

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