With a coloring assist by our own Walt Grogan…
By WALT GROGAN
Sometimes I feel like I sound like a broken record but I stumbled across this absolutely stunning Chris Weston piece online. The amount of detail that Chris put into all these versions of Superman is just staggering, and I love that he capped it off with an amazing, giant, traditional Man of Steel in the dead-center spot!
Chris is well-known for penciling Judge Dredd, Time Breakers, The Invisibles, Ministry of Space, The Filth, and The Twelve. If you haven’t experienced his work, many of those have been collected and are readily available at your favorite online marketplace.
Well, I just had to give that Superman piece some vintage newsprint coloring love!
Here it is sans effects:
And, well, it just cried out for the gif treatment:
To see more of Chris’ work, check out his website.
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A 10-year-old Walt Grogan fell in love with the Big Red Cheese thanks to essays written by Dick Lupoff and Don Thompson in the paperback edition of All in Color for a Dime, released in 1970 and bought for him by his father off a paperback spinner rack in a liquor store on the South Side of Chicago. Walt runs The Marvel Family Web Facebook page devoted to all incarnations of the Fawcett/DC Captain Marvel and blogs about Captain Marvel at shazamshistorama.com.
May 25, 2024
Great Krypton!!!
A… F**KING… Mazing.
May 25, 2024
Wonderful work Mr. Weston, and Walt!!!
May 26, 2024
Thanks, Chris!
May 25, 2024
My new PC wallpaper! And “Hi, Walt!”
May 26, 2024
Thanks, Terry! And “Hi”, back atcha!
May 25, 2024
That gif is one of the best I’ve ever seen, Walt!
May 26, 2024
Awwwww, thanks, Dan!
May 25, 2024
Chris Weston absolutely nailed it with this illustration of the Supermen he favors (and, of course, Supergirl and Krypto). Your colors, Walt, elevate this piece by a million.
May 26, 2024
Thanks, Philip!
May 29, 2024
You’re so welcome, Walt.
May 27, 2024
Walt, Chris Weston here! I absolutely love it! Thanks so much for doing a great job! It’s very flattering!
May 27, 2024
Thanks, Chris! Walt’s an ace — and so are you! Great piece!
May 27, 2024
It’s such an awesome piece, Chris! You did a masterful job! I’m so happy you like it!