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02Oct2008

The History of Crappy Art, Part 2

DateThursday, October 2, 2008 at 12:33PM

Remember the old Marvel Try-Out Book from the 80's? Yeah, that one. The one that launched the career of Marvel star and current Trinity feature artist, Mark Bagley? Well, I did those same samples too (much later of course). These pages predate the last batch I posted ( think this was somewhere around '92 or '93) so they're even more hideous. Why am I showing these? Hell if I know. Pity Mike Norton from 1993... 



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Reader Comments (6)

I know Mike Will never believe this but I think those pages are AWESOME! The action really jumps out at you. I like the composition and the motion in them is impressive.

October 2, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterWill J.

I gotta say, these are better than the other old pages.

October 4, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterEric S.

Sure, the first couple of pages have a pin-head and a dislocated neck and musculature right out of Bart Sears' handbook ("Brutes & Babes," anyone?), but the storytelling IS crisp (as Josh at iFanboy pointed out) and the work isn't bad at all. Then I got to the last page with all the bored looking people surrounding Spider-Man. . . Stiff. But clearly the seeds are there of something that would grow and evolve into something much better and entertaining today.

October 9, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterAugie De Blieck Jr.

Mike, my name is Adam, and we met at WW Chicago over the summer, and again at the Baltimore Con a couple weeks ago, purely on a geek/creator basis. But you seemed like a cool dude. I am sure you get this all the time. I live in Chicago, and I have a book I am working on, and would like to send you the script. Crime with a bit of sci-fi. If you are at all interested please email me and I will send it to you. I couldn't find any contact info on your site.

October 10, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterAdam

I think those pages look pretty good, there are some obvious errors but i have seen worse art get published by Marvel and DC

October 22, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterHenrik

Yep, there are going to be alot of people seeing this post and hating you Mike Norton. I agree with the post above, worse pages get published all the time.

December 4, 2008 | Unregistered Commenterphillip

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