SuperFogeys Fan Art (SF Fan Art #1 - Captain Spectacular's Dreams by Mark Poutenis)

SuperFogeys Fan Art

Brock

Hey all! Welcome to the kickoff of the SuperFogeys Fan Art page on Drunk Duck.

The SuperFogeys is a webcomic that answers the question "What happens to superheroes when it's time to get out of the game?" In this case, they go to Valhalla - Home for the Supertired.

SF began in September of 2006 as an experiment on MySpace. In April of 2007 the strip was picked up by Th3rd World Studios for publishing the SuperFogeys in book form for hosting on supefogeys.com.

In June of 2007, the SuperFogeys came to Drunk Duck and I've just been blown away by the positive reception its gotten. You guys and gals are great.

As a way to celebrate you and the other many fans of the SuperFogeys, I've decided to start this fan art page. It should be updating two or three times a week for awhile or until I run out of submissions, and then whenever I get new ones thereafter.

All of this is in preparation for the relaunch of the Th3rd World website. Once that happens, SF will have its own place there for things like blogs, comments, news updates, a way to get SF in your email and a whole lot more, including a special fan art section.

You're gonna be seeing a wide variety of styles as this thing progresses. Everything from a classically illustrated version of the SuperFogeys like the one you see today, to a realistic computer rendering of Spy Gal to a piece submitted by my very own daughter.

Amateurs and pros alike are welcome to submit. Everything I get will be posted so long as it's not of an inappropriate nature. (I'll trust you all to figure that out for yourselves. You can always ask me as well.)

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We start with one of my favorite pieces from Mark Poutenis of The Thinking Ape Blues. "Ape" is a fantastic, edgy comic (mature readers only, please!) that expresses its ideas in a satirical, smart and funny way--ideas with which I almost never agree, but I do admire Mark's craft greatly.

Mark also has a fan art section on his website, and I do believe one of my pieces made it in there, so check it out when you get a chance.

Mark did this fantastic piece around the time I was finishing up chapter 1/starting chapter 2. As such, it features Captain Spectacular in the old version of his uniform (when he looked much more like Superman) before I redesigned him and retroactively modified the first 40 strips to fit! That took an insanely long time.

Also, at that point, I hadn't taken the time to fully design the younger versions of the SF characters, so Mark had to do a lot of improvising to fill in the blanks. I think he did a great job!

More to come!

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Be sure to check out the latest SuperFogeys on Drunk Duck!

-Posted on May 01, 2008

User: CartoonistWill 5

I like it! It's true, he did look too much like Superman back then. Meh, my character looks like Superman (in costume only, because he's not human), but some cartoonists already publishing told me they thought DC wouldn't have a problem. I hope not. I've got a Gumshoe Comics VS. SuperMilo story planned just in case I want to change it though, har har. :-)

But the new costume you designed for Captain Spectacular looks much better in my opinion!
-Posted on Sep 21, 2009

User: mandya1313 5

-Posted on May 18, 2008

User: Brock

crocty - Not to worry! I have many pieces of fan art in the queue, I'm just parceling them out. Expect another one later today. Would love to see one from you, buddy.

Dawn - Mark is indeed a master of the brush.
-Posted on May 07, 2008

User: dgriff13 5

SOLID job, Mark. Adore the lineart- so slick and fluid.

Yay for SF Fanart!
-Posted on May 06, 2008

User: crocty 5

You only have one fanart?
WHAT HAVE YOUR READERS BEEN DOING!?
I guess they don't like you enough to draw you on--
Oh yeah, I'm a reader...
I'll make you one some time...

Maybe...
...
-Posted on May 06, 2008

User: Brock

cyberdog and Raffaele - Yeah, Mark's artwork is just fantastic. I can't say enough nice things about it.

Amy - Please! I would be nice to see SF with some energy behind it, i.e. not the way I draw them!
-Posted on May 06, 2008

User: antcomics 5

I really should get you some fanart. I need to squeeze that in somewhere.....:o)
-Posted on May 06, 2008

User: Raffaele_Ienco

I like the art style. Reminds me of Ren and Stimpy.
-Posted on May 03, 2008

User: cyberdog

LOL, this is pretty cool.
-Posted on May 03, 2008

User: Brock

Barbie, I would go insane if you submitted some fan art. I'm just a huge admirer of your art.
-Posted on May 01, 2008

User: iowabarbidoll 5

WHOO! This is really cool!

I may have to submit some fan art!
~B
-Posted on May 01, 2008

User: Brock

Not at all, Mike. It was the right move and I'm glad we did it. I was never happy with CS's orginal design.

When I began SF I did no prep work. I just drew the characters as they fell out of my head. For the most part, it worked out just fine. For CS...not so much. Making him SO much like Superman was a huge mistake. Now, I've really grown to love his new look. It's much, much better for the mere fact that CS now has his own iconography. He just didn't in his older incarnation.
-Posted on May 01, 2008

User: th3rdworld

do you still hate me for making you change CS brock?
-Posted on May 01, 2008

User: cameron11691 5

-Posted on May 01, 2008

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