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Amazing Spider-Man

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The ultimate mid-August afternoon fun!

The Wings of the Vulture! Cover, May 1972. Penciled by Gil Kane || Inked by John Romita
Happy Birthday, Part Three p.p, 28-29, December 2003. Penciled by John Romita Jr. || Inked by Scott Hanna
Wolfhunt! Page 1, October 1973. Penciled by Ross Andru || Inked by John Romita
The Birth of a Super-Hero! Page 1, November 1966. Art by John Romita
The Vulture’s Prey Page 1, September 1968. Penciled by John Romita || Inked by Mickey Demeo

The Final Chapter Page 3. Art by Steve Ditko
The Final Chapter Page 4. Art by Steve Ditko
The Final Chapter – Art by Steve Ditko

Sunday Strip, January 21, 1979. Art by John Romita

The Kid Who Collects Spider-Man. Sketch pages, January 1984
The Kid Who Collects Spider-Man, Page 1. Penciled by Ron Frenz || Inked by Terry Austin
The Night of the Prowler Page 16, November 1969. Penciled by Jon Buscema || Inked by Jim Mooney
And Death Shall Come Page 10, November 1970. Penciled by Gil Kane || Inked by John Romita
And Death Shall Come Page 10, November 1970. Penciled by Gil Kane || Inked by John Romita
To Smash a Spider Page 17, December 1970. Penciled by Gil Kane || Inked by John Romita
In the Grip of the Goblin, Unpublished cover, June 1917. Penciled by Gil Kane || Inked by Frank Giacoia

 

August 15, 2017 @ The Society of Illustrators

The first ever exhibition of original Spider-Man with artwork mainly by John Romita but also my two favourites, Steve Ditko and Gil Kane; including Todd McFarlane, John Buscema, Ross Andru, Gil Kane, Ron Frenz, Keith Pollard, John Romita Jr. and others.

The exhibit runs through August 26th, 2017.

You’re welcome!

Porky Pies and other Lies

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The Police
1983
Pen, brush mouth atomiser and ink on paper

On 14 January 1983, 26-year old film editor Stephen Waldorf was mistakenly shot five times in the head and body by the Metropolitan Police in Earls Court, West London. The police thought he was an escaped prisoner, David Martin. In 1983 two officers were put on trial for attempted murder; they were both acquitted.wp20160924_143010

Margaret Thatcher. The Last Supposition, 1985
Leonardo da Vinci after Ralph Steadman has had a go at it..
New Statesman, 11 October 1985
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Reagan’s Latest Close-Up
New Statesman, 7 March 1980
Pen and Indian ink on paper

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”The Peacekeepers Are Coming!
The Peacekeepers Are Coming!”
1983
Pen, mouth atomiser and ink on paper

In October 1983 thousands of US troops and helicopter gunships invaded the tiny Caribbean island of Grenada after a left-wing coup. Reagan’s incursion into Grenada, a Commonwealth country, was the only occasion on which Margaret Thatcher and the US president had a serious fallout.

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Donald Trump – Porky Pie!!!
New Statesman, 17 December 2015
Pen, brush, mouth atomiser, acrylic and gesso on paper

This porcine portrait of the real estate billionaire, reality TV game-show host and presidential hopeful [and, by now, President] Donald J. Trump accompanied an article by Laurie Penny, ”There is nothing funny about a Donald Trump rally”. ”By lying through his teeth”, she writes, ”he has managed to persuade thousands of people that he is the one truth-teller in American politics… Trump is selling fascism with a cartoon face”.

In November 2015, the mayor of Jersey City accused Trump of ”shameful politicizing” after the Republican made unsubstantiated claims that in 2001 the watched on TV ”thousands and thousands” of Arab Americans in New Jersey cheering the attacks on the World Trade Center.

”Porkie pie”, or ”porky”, is Cockney rhyming slang for ”lie”.

From A Retrospective: Ralph Steadman exhibition, held at The Society of Illustrators between September-October 2016.

September 24th, 2016

Alice and other darling scented rushes

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Wool and Water from Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll,
MacGibbon & Kee, 1972
Pen, brush and ink, poster white on paper
”So the boat was left to drift down the stream as it would, till it glided gently in among the waving rushes. And then the little sleeves were carefully rolled up, and the little arms were plunged in elbow-deep, to get hold of the rushes a good long way down before breaking them off – and for a while Alice forgot all about the Sheep and the knitting, as she bent over the side of the boat, with just the ends of her tangled hair dipping into the water – while the bright eyes she caught at one bunch after another of the darling scented rushes.”wp20160924_141730 wp20160924_140104Hogarth ’65: Marriage à la Mode: Breakfast Scene
Private Eye, 30 April 1965
Pen and ink, poster white on paper
Hogarth ’65: Taste in High Life 2
Private Eye, 6 April 1965
Pen and Indian ink and collage on paper
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‘Our visual reporter captures the dramatic moment when our gallant men in blue leap into the room and apprehend the miscreants’.
Private Eye, 21 July 1967
Pen and ink, poster white on paper

On 12 February 1967 police raided a house-party at Redlands, Keith Richard’s manor hourse at West Wittering, near Chichester, on a tip-off from the News of the World. The police took away some Ambre Solaire suntan lotion, a quantity of Earl Grey tea, joss sticks and a minute amount of cannabis resin. […] Also present at Steadman’s soirée is Jagger’s girlfriend, Marianne Faithfull (the girl in the fur rug). George Harrison and Pattie Boyd can be spied in the mirror: the West Sussex constabulary discreetly waited for the Beatle to leave before they pounced.

wp20160924_141429Breaking Bad: Walter White
2015
Ink and acrylic on paper

The multi-award-winning, darkly comic TV drama ran on AMC for six seasons from 2008 to 2013. In 2014, Steadman was asked to create images of six main characters for the covers of limited-edition Blu-ray Steelbooks. […] Steadman says of Walt and the other characters, ”I printed out photographs of them and then watched all the series and some of it stayed in my head. Walt has a certain look to him. I realized that you can draw the top of his head with a compass. It’s perfect… Walt says he’s only doing it for his family, but one thing leads to another and he gets deeper and deeper and there’s no going back”.

wp20160924_135917It’s a Free Country (detail)
Private Eye No. 30, 18 February 1963
Pen and ink on pieces of paper
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Rough drawing for cartoon published in Punch, 24 August 1960.
Pen and ink and blue pencil on paper

From A Retrospective: Ralph Steadman exhibition, held at The Society of Illustrators, September-October 2016

September 24th, 2016