Monthly Archives: November 2008
1) Patrick Fillion has done an issue of Boytoons on ANTI-HEROES #3! Check it out!
2) I have to give props to my web developer, Christine So. She does great work– if any of you need web help!
3) I WANT GAMES! All I have are the 2 that I’ve had forever– the Dress-Up game and the Baku Block game. If anyone knows who I can work with to get some web-games (either Flash or Javascript) of my Anti-Heroes up, please let me know. I’m a good client to work for. I pay! haha.
Ok, that is all.
Of course, I said all this intermixed with bursts of evil laughter because I know this kid really dislikes campy Batman. “Why do you want to see me suffer?” he said. “Why do you want to see my heroes raped and ruined?”
“Because, shit, other people need to see how it feels, goddammit.”
“Ah, so that’s what this is about,” he says. “You just want this cartoon to succeed out of spite for all the crappy X-Men media that was released.”
I tried denying it for a while– saying things like, “Well, I think that creators take a lot of liberties when they are given a franchise to reinterpret. And a lot of the time, they end up alienating people who liked one specific interpretation.”
“So you are glad that I’m not going to like it then?”
“You betcha,” I said. “I hope some people really end up hating it and thinking their favorite character has been ruined, just like how I felt with the X-Men movie and how my partner felt with the new Star Wars movies and so on.”
The discussion was concluded by his assertion that I am an evil, vengeful person who revels in people’s misery. I am okay with that. But in all honesty, I do think this toon looks pretty fun! 🙂
And so yeah, I kindof don’t remember the model from which these were based. All I remember is that I probably wasn’t really attracted to him, which is why I turned each of his poses into a hot Persuasions character!
I’ve been sitting on this for a while, but I think now is the time to reveal my pal, Anthony Gonzales’ massive fan-art collection of the Anti-Heroes!
I spoke about Anthony in an older post in response to a few fan-arts he did of my original characters. Little did I know then that he’d give me a TON more!!! I wanted to display ALL of it right away but that was during my hellish-no-time-for-anything-pray-I-don’t-shoot-myself period. Now that I have a little breathing room, I feel like it’s finally time to show you guys Anthony’s awesome masterpieces.
I draw with Anthony at the Workshop, and fell in love with his style early on. He has a way of really capturing a man’s masculinity and virility with nothing more than a sexy pose and naughty facial expression. And he’s a speed demon! No joke, I’ve seen my man sketch, pencil, ink, and color a piece to artistic completion in less than 20 minutes. That’s why even though I was super-excited to get these, I wasn’t too surprised at the volume. I bet he can do 5 of ’em in a night!
Some of these are colored by Anthony. Others are colored digitally by me. We make a good team, huh?
He even showed me some of his thumbnail sketches for pieces he didn’t end up doing. (The two below this paragraph.) He was going to toss them but I begged him to let me hold onto them! They’re pretty detailed sketches, dude!
I also love that he’s into more than just the 3 main characters. He’s a big X-Men fan just like me and thusly likes my mutant rip-offs, the Bomb Squad. Below are a few of his sketches of them.
One thing I always marvel at with Anthony’s work is his incredible attention to detail. He has a vivid imagination and not only comes up with the figures from his head, but also the props! I kinda don’t love drawing props and doodads, but you can tell Anthony is a pro at it. Just look at this illustration on the right– so crazy detailed, I couldn’t even think about coloring it! (The offer to anyone who wants to is hereby officially on the table!)
I’m a little glad that I held off from posting these for as long as I have because it allowed me to time this post with the release of Anthony’s first art book. Published by Bruno Gmunder, Bronx Boys is a collection of some of Anthony’s best work. Every piece is unmistakably set in New York City. Anthony seems to have captured the very essence of what makes the men here so frikkin’ irresistable.
