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Post by Jesse on Dec 15, 2020 18:52:48 GMT -5
MDG!
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Post by brianf on Dec 15, 2020 21:32:37 GMT -5
bert
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Post by foxley on Dec 16, 2020 3:44:21 GMT -5
Voting is now closed. Tallying in progress.
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Post by foxley on Dec 16, 2020 3:56:51 GMT -5
Living in a pineapple under the sea is this week's winner MDG, with 4 votes. Things went swimmingly for our runners-up--tarkintino, M.W. Gallaher, pinkfloydsound17, DubipR, bert, and kirby101--with 2 votes. And it's low tide (and 1 vote) for driver1980, brianf, tartanphantom, foxley, Jesse, Crimebuster, james, Prince Hal, and chaykinstevens.
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Post by kirby101 on Dec 16, 2020 9:26:29 GMT -5
Congrats to MDG for the win with that beautiful cover. And thanks Rob and needs for the votes.
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Post by pinkfloydsound17 on Dec 16, 2020 13:02:46 GMT -5
man, y'all just make it harder and harder every week. I had like a 4 way tie, so just drew a number, and my pick this week is: james(Pinkfloydsound was really close to making into my top 4, but a personal dislike of the coloring in most Charlton covers just kept it out. . it's a great cover tho) Right!? Charlton is traditionally a no go for me. I view comics with an art eye primarily, and then a literature view second. It is reallly hard for me to get past bad art even if there is a great story. I have many a comic with good to great art and meh or poor stories but I can look at them and enjoy them so I keep em. Charlton just never got it right. The colouring often ruined solid art. The interior art was verrrrry basic a LOT of the time. Nothing excited me except for the occasional cover and the occasional chance to see some Ditko art (and even that was ruined by some poor colouring or just not being his best work). Now if you took that Kim art and left it black and white...it is super creepy and awesome and full of great movement and lines. Sadly, coulouring it realllly kills it.
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Post by MDG on Dec 16, 2020 13:35:52 GMT -5
Thanks all--busy work day so getting to the new contest in a few minutes.
(I gotta say that although it looks like a reworked interior splash, I also really liked pinkfloydsound's Sanho Kim cover)
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Post by beccabear67 on Dec 16, 2020 14:29:03 GMT -5
"It was you, Dyesebel."Here's the cover the swam out at me when looking to see if there would be enough mer-people covers for this contest... a 1953 Philippines comic featuring a mermaid character named Dyesebel (spoken like Jezebel?), created by Mars Ravelo and drawn by Elpidio Torres. Still popular and the subject of films and tv programs! I even saw her myself in a modern serialized tv series I followed while we had a Filipino channel free, but had no idea then that the character had started in comics! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DyesebelThere have been some amazing artists in comics from the Philippines from the late '40s to present. Nestor Redondo has long been a favorite of mine from American comics but I'd like to know and see more about others we might not have been exposed to. 1950-54 might even be called a 'golden age' for their realistic art style Komiks. More recent comics I've seen have shown a marked Japanese cartoon style.
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Post by badwolf on Dec 21, 2020 14:24:24 GMT -5
I thought of this one first but decided she wasn't "mer" enough:
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