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One of my all-time favorite artists. The man can do ANYTHING! Happy Birthday good sir. From my personal collection and a very prized possesion:
"When not too many people can see we're all the same
And because of all their tears,
Their eyes can't hope to see
The beauty that surrounds them
Isn't it a pity".
I sincerly hope DC Comics pays JLG-L decently for everything he's done for them. His work is literally their entire merchandising output!
Just out of curiosity, has he ever done work for Marvel? I know he started out at Charlton on romance & horror. I'd love to see his work on Spder-Man or Captain America. In fact, he would be the perfect artist to revive the Fantastic Four!
JLG-L is truly a man who is as versatile as he is talented and I'm not too sure if there's a DC character out there he HASN'T drawn. If memory serves, his artwork was the basis for many of their style-guides, but I don't know if that's the case anymore. Is he currently still doing work in the field or has his style become too "antiquated" by the standards of today's editors and publishers? As for him doing any work for MARVEL, good question. No doubt he would do a really fantastic Spidey; I sort of envision his version as being Spidey by way of Romita, Sr. with a heaping helping of Neal Adams and even some Ross Andru tossed in...
Many wishes to him for a great Birthday!
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Closest thing I could find to JLG-L doing a MARVEL character is this AMALGAM version of Spiderwing, but even it looks great compared to most of the dreck currently littering comic shop shelves...
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There are photos of the entire book I believe from cover...
to interior pages...
to back cover...
plus additional material form later guides JGL did.
It's a great way to while away a couple of hours.
-M
Hours?? Heck, I could spend a couple of days or even weeks in there! LOL!
sigpic Oh then, what's this? Big flashy lighty thing, that's what brought me here! Big flashy lighty things have got me written all over them. Not actually. But give me time. And a crayon.
I can't fault any of his work, but I adore how he draws Wonder Woman and the Marvel Family.
IMHO, he did justice to ALL the DC ladies better than almost everyone else!
And I think this might be one of my fave images of BatGirl that he produced. Innocent, yet still seductive...
sigpic Oh then, what's this? Big flashy lighty thing, that's what brought me here! Big flashy lighty things have got me written all over them. Not actually. But give me time. And a crayon.
Closest thing I could find to JLG-L doing a MARVEL character is this AMALGAM version of Spiderwing, but even it looks great compared to most of the dreck currently littering comic shop shelves...
That's a fan re-work of this page from The Who's Who loose-leaf edition:
THIS is the ONLY Marvel work JLGL has done...from the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Deluxe Edition:
Think OUTSIDE the Box! For the BEST in Repro & Custom Packaging!
Thanks for the info on that "Spiderwing" piece, TR. You learn something new everyday. Still the pose and dynanicism of the piece sort of give you and idea of what a JLG-L Spidey would look like. Basically, spectacular!
sigpic Oh then, what's this? Big flashy lighty thing, that's what brought me here! Big flashy lighty things have got me written all over them. Not actually. But give me time. And a crayon.
At Baltimore ComicCon I got a bunch of comics signed by Mr. Garcia-Lopez, and bought one of his sketchbooks ($10). Here's some of the work inside. Including some non-DC heroes...well, Tarzan is technically DC...
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