Legendary artist Gene Colan is ill. His liver is failing him. Comic and movie creator Clifford Meth is putting together an auction on items that will benefit him as I guess his insurance is not covering the help he needs. No surprise there. Colan’s work has had a big impact on me in the last few years.
Much like how I hated Kirby when I was very young and then one day a light bulb just went on in my head and I finally “got it” the same could be said with Gene’s work as well. His pencils are so great but the man always had a hard time finding a great inker, but when he did the results were awesome. If you ever want to hear a great interview with a great artist listen to Comic Geek Speak’s interview they did with Gene. He is so honest and appreciative of everything it’s rather humbling. I also suggest anyone who appreciates horror at all to read the Tomb of Dracula Essentials. Those books made me realize just how great 70’s Marvel really was. I plan on donating something to the cause and I’ll post that later this week. Seems like we are doing benefit auctions for too many creators these days. More than the health insurance companies are doing.
*UPDATE* Here is the piece I did for the auction.
On a happier note the Iron Man movie cards are finally out so I can post them. Looking back I should have done more of Iron Man’s cool rogues. The information I got was to stick to mostly Iron Man though and that old retro armor is always a blast to draw. I didn’t do too many as I was in a time crunch on other work at the time.


















