Friday, July 24, 2015

Artist Joe Phillips Conjures Up an Old Hollywood Take on Superhero Movies












I simply could not resist posting these amazing images! In another world I hope these exist.....

3 comments:

Stephen D. Sullivan said...

When you posted one of these on Facebook, I didn't realize it was Joe Phillips doing him. I haven't seen him in ages, but spent one fun Chicago Comicon sitting at the artist table next to him. I'd struggle with my anemic con sketches, and he'd do these beautiful paintings -- I think he was working on Lobo at the time. Every so often, he'd turn to me and ask, "What color is this?" I'd tell him and he'd say, "Good!" and keep on mixing. Because, believe it or not, he's colorblind. Yeah, I know! That's what he told me, anyway, but it never seemed to slow him down much. :-)

Rod Barnett said...

My God! If he's colorblind he must have a damned good assistant labeling his workstation! These really are amazing but Carol Lombard's name above needs to be .... fixed.

Stephen D. Sullivan said...

Well, that's what he told me way back when. And I sat beside him, watching him work, the whole con -- so I had/have no reason to doubt him. There are degrees of color-blindness, though, and even then, he seemed to have it pretty well under control.

But, yes, if I knew how to contact him, I'd ask him to fix Lombard's name. :-)