John Carter of Mars by Mitch Breitweiser

Hooray for catch-up week! There are so many other twarts I wish I had time to do, but I'm particularly slammed at the moment, so this was the best I could do under the circumstances. It was really nice to do some no-pressure art for a change!

KETCHUP! by Evan Shaner

Here's my piece for Andy's John Carter of Mars week. I was only recently able to get a scan of it. I'll admit I'm a lot less familiar with Carter than Burroughs' other popular creation, but the idea of a confederate captain zapped to Mars while trying to hide from Apaches, well that's pretty neat.

I'm going to count this as my Frank Frazetta tribute as well. I discovered Frazetta's work in college and have since kept a large folder of his paintings, amazed at the way he played with contrast. For what it's worth I enjoyed his work in newspaper strips as well.

FRAZETTA TRIBUTE by Mitch Gerads

I was never a HUGE Frazetta guy, i'm going to be honest. Early on I associated Frazetta with Death Dealer, Conan, etc. and that stuff was just too Heavy Metal for me at the time. As I grew wiser etc. etc. I learned of his work on John Carter, a story which I LOVE to death. Recently I've dipped into the Lil Abner stuff and i've now become a HUGE fan of the man and his work. He will be missed for sure.

This piece was pencilled by myself with inks by the always awesome, Mark Stegbauer, for the benefit auction today at SPRINGCON !

M!TCH

JOHN CARTER of MARS by Mr. Hawthorne

Quick watercolor/ink/pencil piece, just under the wire. Enjoy.






Best,
Mike

JOHN CARTER OF MARS by Chris Samnee

Wow. Some tough acts to follow this week. Too bad I only had time for another quickie.

Oh well. This is a sketch blog after all, right?

Great work, guys. I love and hate you all at the same time.

John Carter of Mars by tom fowler

okay. i'm going to level with you, internet. to my eternal shame, i've never read the john carter books (unless you count some of the comics... which i don't). i have always been in love with the imagery though; so much really great stuff to sink you teeth into.

that said, this might be another week where i think it may have gotten away from me for a number of reasons (most of which would fall under the most boring kinds of cartoonist "shop-talk"; paper, ink, etc...). looking at it now i wonder if it's one of those cases where the sketch was more successful than the finished product. i'm going to put this one aside for now, but at some point in the future i may revisit it for a painting.

btw if you're going to be in the ottawa area next week please stop by the silver snail comic store on wednesday where i'll be signing the new collected edition of my (and jeff parker's) book MYSTERIUS THE UNFATHOMABLE. if you're not familiar with it i can honestly tell you, with no hyperbole whatsoever, it is simply the GREATEST BOOK EVER.

you should totally buy it and stuff...

John Carter by Ron Salas

Here's my John Carter.

John Carter and the other Edgar Rice Burroughs heroes were big parts of my childhood. Burroughs was an incredibly prolific writer and, in my opinion, there was no better writer at writing adventure novels and stories. So what if his stories were, by and large, factually inaccurate? He had a sense of action and drama that were second to none.

I probably would have picked John Carter for my topic if no one had when my turn came so I'm really glad Andy picked him. Thanks Andy!

JOHN CARTER of MARS by Andy Kuhn

For some reason unknown to me, I decided to scan this piece

when it was half done, and fool around with it in photoshop.

I've posted both versions for you to dig.
John Carter of Mars.....I picked him 'cause I love him!

I was introduced to the character through the 70's marvel comics

version, drawn by Gil Kane, and inked by Rudy Nebres.

If you've never seen that, look it up. It's beautiful work.

Can't wait for the movie! There needs to be a new comic book too.

Maybe with yours truly drawing it. :)

I had a blast making this drawing.

Thanks for looking!

JOHN CARTER OF MARS by Francesco Francavilla

(click on the above image for larger view)

Thank you so much to Andy for picking up yet another Pulp character: I am definitely in my element with these choices :)
Inspired by the old Gold Key covers, here's my take on John Carter of Mars :)
Hope you guys enjoy it as much I enjoyed to draw it :)

Cheers,
Francesco