Wildstorm: Gen 13

In tribute to the end of Wildstorm, today's daily sketch was to do a drawing of one of their comic book characters. I chose Fairchild from Gen 13, which was one of my favorite books as a kid.

WildStorm: Tom Strong

So long, and thanks for all the Grifter!

A tribute to WildStorm. WildC.A.T.S. was a huge part of the comics I read growing up, so when I thought of what character to draw out of all the amazing books they published over the years, I decided it just had to be Grifter, because he was on the cover of the first WildCATS book I ever picked up. Which was I think the first WildStorm book I ever picked up! Thus the circle is complete. And my brush is pretty much dead after this one...

Thanks to everyone who worked at WildStorm, drew and wrote, lettered, designed and read these books.

Goodbye Wildstorm - Jenny Sparks

From the Authority, the bolshy bitch herself.

Intergalactic Planetary, Planetary Intergalactic

Just pencils for me, thanks.



So it was Becky Cloonan's turn to choose a warm-up topic today. To honor yesterday's dissolution of the company, her edict was: draw a Wildstorm character.

My first reaction was images of WildC.A.T.s and other uber-90's fare, but after seeing Tim Hamilton's post, I remembered just how varied and cool some of what Wildstorm published was. I went with the core trio of Warren Ellis and John Cassaday's Planetary series, a book I highly enjoyed (though, honestly, drifted away from as the wait between issues got progressively longer. And longer) . Even my girlfriend really dug Planetary. After drawing this, maybe I'll go and finish up the series in trade.