Our latest and greatest weekly feature — from the artistic mind of WALT GROGAN!
Welcome to our newest feature here at 13th Dimension — WALT WEDNESDAYS, a weekly spotlight on the work of longtime contributor Walt Grogan!
As is often the case, Walt and I “met” through the internet; I was taken with his mad skills as a colorist and his creativity producing faux covers, house ads, and hilarious satires.
If memory serves me right, his first piece for us was an imaginary cover of The Brave and the Bold, using a piece of Neal Adams art that I’d commissioned. I’d written a story about the illustration, and Walt asked me if he could color it, and this is what he came up with:
It’s since become a meme, and fans on social media frequently mistake it for the real McCoy (which is both hilarious and duly earned).
Walt stuck around, becoming the house colorist, a regular parodist, and chief banner maker. The one at the top is his work, naturally.
Now, Walt has taken the plunge with a weekly gig — the alliterative WALT WEDNESDAYS, joining another regular midweek feature, RETRO HOT PICKS.
We ran a preview on Halloween, and you can find his first official installment — fittingly, on Batman — here.
After you check those out, just come back next week, and the week after that, and the week after that, and…
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MORE
— BATMAN CONTINUES: The 1989 JERRY ORDWAY Series That Should Have Been. Click here.
— THE SUPERNATURAL SOIREE: Dig This DC WHO’S WHO Halloween Jam Piece — a WALT WEDNESDAYS Preview. Click here.
