A thread for sussing out the artist homages in MADMAN ATOMIC COMICS #3

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Time for a few more:

Pg. 10: Would have to be entirely Frazetta, but I don't actually know my Frazetta very well.

Pg. 11: panel 1: Alex Toth
panel 2: Wally Wood, the man who said "Never draw what you can copy, never copy what you can trace, never trace what you can cut out and paste down."
panel 3: Joe Kubert & sons
panel 4: Bruno Premiani (Doom Patrol)

Pp. 12-13: Baffling. The only thing I can think of is Jim Steranko.

Pg. 14: That top Mr. Excitement is definitely Kirby, and there seem to be a few other Kirbys (with various inkers?)

Pg. 15: panel 2, the Madman figure is Barry Windsor-Smith, like you said--and I think the foreground figure in panel 3 is Neal Adams

Pg. 16: panel 1: Hergé
panel 2: Moebius
panel 3: Yves Chaland
panel 4: Daniel Torres
panel 5: Geoff Darrow

Pg. 17: panel 1: Dave Stevens (Rocketeer)
panel 2: Charles Burns (Big Baby era)
panel 3: Jaime Hernandez (I don't really see any Beto in the image)
panel 4: Chester Brown (Madman looks like Christian from "Ed the Happy Clown")
panel 5: Daniel Clowes

Pg. 18: panel 1: Richard Sala
panels 2-5: Chris Ware
panel 6: Seth
panel 7: Bernie Mireault
panel 8: Matt Wagner, I guess (from what?)
panel 9: David Mazzucchelli

Pg. 19: panels 1-2, I have no idea
panel 3: Kevin Nowlan
panel 4: no idea
panel 5: Brian Bolland
panel 6: Dave Gibbons

Pg. 20: panel 1: Art Adams
panel 2: Mike Mignola
panel 3: Bruce Timm
panel 4: Charles Vess
panel 5: Paul Pope
panel 6: I see the Jay Stephens but not the Ramona Fradon...
panel 7: Craig Thompson

More later, if I get the chance.

Douglas, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 03:23 (sixteen years ago) link

I thought Pg. 15, p1 was Steranko? & I guess p4 is Frank Miller? & that drawing of Joe in the upper-right corner of Pg. 14 looks very Romita-esque.

David R., Tuesday, 24 July 2007 03:47 (sixteen years ago) link

Pg12-13 is the MEANWHILE pages, right? I kind of figured that since we were out of Frank's mind that it was Allred being Allred again.

If Frank Miller is in here, Allred sure hid him well.

Leee, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 04:10 (sixteen years ago) link

Mmm. Let's see here...

Pg. 21: mostly confuses me.

Pg. 22: here we go!
panel 1: Erik Larsen
panel 2: Ladronn
panel 3: Howard Chaykin-->Tim Sale
panel 4: Teddy Kristiansen
panel 5: Brendan McCarthy (Strange Days-era)-->?
panel 6: Jeff Smith (channeling C.C. Beck??)
panel 7: John Buscma
panel 8: Richard Corben
panel 9: Gene Colan
panel 10: John Cassaday?! (I don't see it)
panel 11: Mac Raboy? (also don't see it)-->Paul Chadwick (Concrete)
panel 12: Dave Cooper
panel 13: Bob Burden (Flaming Carrot)-->...
...and then I'm lost for the rest of the page

pg. 23:
panel 1: Jamie Hewlett-->Matt Groening
panel 2: ??
panel 3: Sergio Aragones-->Bill Plympton-->Peter Bagge
panel 4-5: ?
panel 6: Robert Crumb
panel 7: ?
panel 8: Dave Sim (Artemis as Swoon)
panel 9: Katsuhiro Otomo
panel 10: ??--Nick Cardy, maybe?
panel 11: Michael Avon Oeming-->?
panel 12: Bill Watterson-->Gary Panter
panel 13-14:??
panel 15: Art Spiegelman-->Yoshitaka Amano
panel 16: Gil Kane
panel 17: Evan Dorkin-->??
...and then I'm lost for the rest.

Douglas, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 23:56 (sixteen years ago) link

theres a great interview from last week on fanboy radio with allred. he discusses issue 3, the beatles, bad comic movies and his favo creators.

chaki, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 19:07 (sixteen years ago) link

oh shit i didnt know he was a crazy mormon

chaki, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 19:30 (sixteen years ago) link

Is that everyone's response to that bit of info?

David R., Wednesday, 25 July 2007 19:33 (sixteen years ago) link

well he went on about it for about 25 minutes

chaki, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 19:58 (sixteen years ago) link

well, um, never mind then :D

David R., Wednesday, 25 July 2007 20:02 (sixteen years ago) link

still love new madman seies! did anyone get MADMAN GARGANTUA AWESOMENESS?

chaki, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 20:10 (sixteen years ago) link

Has he published that comic about the MORMON STORY yet? I was kind of interested.

mh, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 23:50 (sixteen years ago) link

Yep, in 2004.

energy flash gordon, Thursday, 26 July 2007 00:20 (sixteen years ago) link

I've got the first two issues of The Golden Plates and it's actually pretty good (and very attractive). Haven't tracked down issue 3 anywhere though. Mike said on his own boards that he hasn't go tthe time to do any more issues for the forseeable future.

My Ganrgantua is still with Amazon. Whether they actually have one is questionable.

aldo, Thursday, 26 July 2007 12:32 (sixteen years ago) link

I nearly went blind trying to figure it all out. The last page (of swipes) and the legend up front have almost nothing to do with each other.

Dr. Superman, Thursday, 26 July 2007 19:37 (sixteen years ago) link


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