My Idea

My new idea is a boxset with a free tshirt. This boxset is going to be based around a game that is inspired by Marvel/DC comics films/games. I'm not sure which gaming platform I will choose to make my game for.

Athena-Chan Artist Research

Athena-Chan is a self taught artist from Bonn, Germany. A manga artist whom usually creates her manga by using the normal concept of manga art and then combine it with her own realistic style. She believes she started drawing manga when a few anime series aught her eye as a young teenager. She began to do simple sketches that, at first, she felt as awful and non-usable, however after years of perfecting her technique she started producing pieces of work that were skilled.

Jack Kirby-Artist research

Jack Kirby (Artist Research)

An American artist, Jack Kirby was born August 28 1917 in New York named Jacob Kurtzbuerg. Sadly he died February 6^th 1994 aged 76. He was the original illustrator of some of the most famous comic book super heros in the world! For instance Captain America, the fantastic Four, Hulk, Thor and X men!  Kirby collected many awards throughout his life time, Best pencil artist (1967) Alley Award also 1967) and Special Achievement by an individual (1971) He was married to Roy Goldstein in  1942, who was a ‘inker’ for DC comics! 1942. They had four children, and remained married until his death from heart failure in 1994. The Jack Kirby Awards and Jack Kirby Hall of Fame were named in his honor. Kirby wasn’t raised with a rich family, in fact some would argue he was quite poor. He learnt to draw cartoon figures by tracing characters from comic strips in the paper as a child. He finally entered the comic industry in the 1930s’s where he drew many comics under different names, Jack Curtiss being one, but soon after he decided to settle on Jack Kirby. It was in the 1940s when he and his writer-editor Joe Simon created the super hero comic Captain America for Timely Comics  (the predecessor of Marvel Comics). This comic was highly successful and so Simon and Kirby created a brilliant team and together created many amazing characters the captured the imagination of those all over the world and even worked with National Comics, the company that later became the famous DC comics. Kirby served in World War 2, but once the war was over he returned to the comic industry and started working on a variety of genres. He and Simon had created a new refreshed type of comic that was to capture not only younger boys but now younger females attention to the world of comics. They created the first romance comic. He and Simon did launch their own comic company, however it was short lived and He found himself back at Timely Comics again. Then in the 1960 he and his new Writer-editor Stan Lee co-created Marvels major characters. Kirby felt he was being treated unfairly at Marvel comics even thoughthey were getting high sales and amazing reviews, he left the company in 1970..Only to join their rival DC.  At DC Kirby created his Fourth World Saga, that was spread across many comic title. The series was not successful and was unfortunately cancelled. In his later years, some claimed that he was the ‘William Blake of comics’ and he began receiving recognition in the mainstream press for his accomplishments.

Artist Research-Grant Morrison

Grant Morrison is a man of high regard in the comic industry. In the last 20 years he has been recognized by several organisations as a best selling writer. Himself and Dave McKean has sold over 600,000 copies world wide of their co-work Arkham Asylum. It was published in 2009 and made him a house hold name. Morrison was known for his ability to 're-image' or recreate already established characters. Here is a list of comics that he has re-creates characters for:
Batman
Superman
Justice League of America
Fantastic Four
Animal Man
New-X Men
Marvel Boy
Doom Patrol

He has also created his own original series including;
The Filth
Zenith
Joe The Barbarian
Mentallo
SeaGuy
Kill Your Boyfriend

His Graphic Novels and comic books have been translated into over 20 different languages so that many people around the world can be inspired by his art.


This is a illustration by Morrison. I plan to re-create this with my own twist.

Another Illustration that i believe links to my chosen theme; Earth, Wind, Fire and Water. In this case, just fire. I believe the use of red and oranges really contrast against the molten grays that represent lava.

My Brief

my final piece is going to be a comic that focuses on the personification of the four core elements; earth, wind,fire and water in the form of heros and heroines. This comics will be a short story including a mass range of typography and a series of many illustrations influenced by some of the leading comic book artists in the world. 

I will look into the comic industry and softly touch upon the many other roots of graphic illustrations that have stemmed from the comic industry across the world. For instance, Manga is a another form of comic in Japan.