born on this day in 1935, Sanford "Sandy" Koufax

on this date in 1911...

the great Josh Gibson was born.

an invitation!

I'd like to officially invite you to come check out a new artblog that I've been asked to join. It's called "WHATnot" and it's full of incredible artists. Why they wanted me to be part is absolutely beyond me. It can be found at:

http://whatnotisms.blogspot.com

I won't be posting any of my paintings for it here on my blog, except this one (my first for WHATnot) so be sure to come by for a looksee...

and in color!

nj convention sketch!

convention sketch of a character I've never drawn before...Black Canary.

My approach was somewhere between Alex Toth and Cliff Chiang (yes, I aspire to the greatness of those two guys!).

Not being a mainstream superhero artist, I thought this was going to be a chore, but I actually had a great time with it. Thanks to goodguy Will King for asking me to do it!

Mattel's INSTANT REPLAY (1971)

When I was a kid, I had this cool game called “Instant Replay.” Basically, it was a bunch of little 3 inch records that you popped into this little mini record player and it played an announcer announcing a great play of a particular sports hero. You know, a Willie Mays home run or an OJ Simpson touchdown or whatever.

OK, kinda corny, but most everything in the 1970’s was.

I loved these little records and especially the paintings of each sports hero on each disc.

Recently, just for the hell of it, I made a counterfeit disk featuring a player that hadn’t actually been on one of the discs.

Use your eagle eye and see if you can figure out which is the FAKE one…

ok, it's a fake...so shoot me!