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RSS FeedThe Super-8 List: The Coolest Marvel-Disney Mashup Cartoons
If Disney can tap even half the creativity that went into creating Disney/Marvel mashup art the whole wide world (web) over, then the House of Mouse studios will be a magical place indeed.
PhotoShop, Google Images and comic-book collections got a workout yesterday, as artists and quasi-artists went to work in light of Monday's Disney-buys-Marvel news. So many characters, so many possibilities -- and so many wonderfully twisted scenarios.
From the reams of Disney fever-dreams, here is Comic Riffs's "Super-Eight" -- the mashups that caught our eye, our fancy and our whim. (And if you've got a mashup of our own, this Riffster's happy to take a look.)
THE SUPER-EIGHT:
8. The Salt Lake Tribune's PAT BAGLEY offers his superbly warped take:
7. Artist A. DAVID LEWIS gets a nod for this portfolio.
6. The Washington Examiner's NATE BEELER delivers not only swell art, but just the right tone, to boot:
5. From Origin to Bambi, an especially swell portfolio by MATT OCCHUIZZO:
4. This FAKE Disney-to-Marvel memo is so inspired, it offers a foursome:
3. Tough to best a Marvel Mouse illustration that author Craig Yoe attributes to JACK KIRBY himself:
2. And then there is the twosome that rougly four decades later can now be viewed as tongue-in-cheek prophetic. First, there is this illustration attributed to WALLY WOOD -- via the excellent site Comic Book Resources and said to be flagged by Sean Kleefeld. (The art is said to be from a 1968 TV Guide.)
1. And last, our top pick: Numerous Web sites (and avid readers) were quick to pull this image out of mothballs: "Spider-Mouse," attributed to Amazing Spider-Man Annual #5 -- from the mid-'60s. And really -- it doesn't get any better than that.
By Michael Cavna |
September 2, 2009; 8:05 AM ET
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Posted by: Mrhode | September 2, 2009 9:22 AM
Here is my own humble contribution to the genre:
http://livebythefoma.blogspot.com/2009/09/nuff-said.html
You will recognize the Wolverine image from Monday's Spider-Man strip.
Posted by: yellojkt | September 2, 2009 1:31 PM
One technical issue about the blog page itself is that the two comics that appear in this posting remain truncated for a very long time. It takes ages for all the JavaScript to load and complete processing, only then do the right edges (including the punchlines, of course) finally appear.
Posted by: kilby | September 5, 2009 2:07 AM
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Cartoonist and children's book artist Brian Biggs did one too -
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_biggs/3878067829/