SUNDAY FUNNIES WITH KERRY CALLEN!
It’s Memorial Day weekend, the start of the summer season, even if it’s not quite summer yet!
I don’t know about you, but when I think summer, I think Aquaman, so dig this fantastic piece by Kerry:
The watermark was at the behest of the person who commissioned this. Who could blame them?
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KERRY CALLEN spent much of his career as an artist and art director, developing product for Hallmark, but has also dabbled in comics for many years. As a freelancer, he creates work for a range of needs, spanning from Mad Magazine to children illustrations. He has two graphic novels available on Amazon worldwide, Halo and Sprocket: The Definitive Collection, as well as Dirtnap: Mystic Spit.
May 26, 2024
This is great! I feel that if it read “AND CENTAUR AQUALAD?!” it would make it even more perfect!
May 26, 2024
We need at least one story of Aquaman’s strange mutation via Red Atlantisite!
May 26, 2024
Well. As fun as that was, I’m very happy that Aquaman never acquired a “Super Aquaman” costume–all the more I have always liked the original plain or minimalist orange and green costuming over other variants (like the blue “camouflage” version of the mid-1980s)–with the orange tunic and green leggings colored very nicely with matching yellow undertones which makes for a harmonizing and striking appearance.
May 29, 2024
Ramona Fradon drew that version of the character so well – and not only because she was a phenomenal Artist, but also because she, herself, LOVED that version! I never got the hate for it nor the ridicule.
May 29, 2024
I would say my attitude toward the caped, supermanesque costume is more just a lack of enthusiasm for it or, if ranking it, some place other than first compared to the original costume rather than a spastic vehemence against it. Even if Ramona Fradon actually liked it–I’ve always been a fan of her illustrative work (I collected her Superfriends run back in the 70s), but the costume is, for me, still a dud.
I was originally going to discourse longer on what makes the original costume work so well for me aesthetically–but thought for once to keep it short(er). But there’s no vehemence or hatred there for caped alternative, all the more as it’s meant to be humorous in the intent as a part of Mr. Callen’s Sunday Funnies. But it still doesn’t work well for me as an actual costume for Aquaman. A bad costume, IMO–but more a “meh” than something to be intensely reviled.
May 26, 2024
We needed at least one story of Aquaman’s wacky transformation via Red Atlantite!
May 26, 2024
Quisp vs the cereal alien QUISP may have made for an interesting story!
May 26, 2024
I would have happily forked over 25 cents just to learn if Centaur Aqualad says “suffering sea snails” just like his non-centaur self. And of course, this is a fantastic work by Kerry.
May 26, 2024
Love it!!!!
May 26, 2024
Oh I would have loved to see this if only for Centaur Aqualad! (The ultimate seahorse!) Considering all the magic he ran into in the 60s cartoon series it’s a wonder they didn’t do that!