HERES a REJECTED COMIC COVER...I think!!!!! As I was cleaning out my office, I came across this piece of original artwork. And as far as I can remember, this piece was never used by the good folks at Marvel Comics. Though it may seem weird to you that a piece of art gets done and is never used, it isnt that odd. I am sure nearly every full time artist has done a cover, page or an entire issue that the company they were working for decided not to use it for whatever reason. The piece below was done during the mighty days of when the Mutant books were hogging most of the top ten slots on the sales charts. The X-Men Movies came about because of the huge success of these books like the Uncanny X-Men, New Mutants, X-Force, etc. It seemed like most of the artists coming into the business wee all trying to grab one of the mutant books because they were so high profile and would be good for ones career (I always took a different approach, thinking that if you took a character that WASNT selling that well and were able to boost its sales, then that would be something you could build a reputation on. Think Frank Miller on Daredevil and George Perez on Teen Titans). Anyway, one of the artists on a fairly new title was Rob Liefeld, who was probably only 20 or 21 years old at the time. We had become good friends and though we each had our own books to draw (He on X-FORCE and me on The Amazing Spider-Man) we always said we wanted to do something together. Well, that chance came along when Rob began doing covers for both the X-force and New Mutants titles and he asked if I wanted to help ink him on some of those covers. Obviously, I said yes and we ended up doing about 8 to 10 covers together...but I believe this one was NEVER printed. I cant recall why, though Rob probably does since he was the one doing the pencil artwork at the time. But as I sit and look at this page it does make me wonder what the reasons might have been for having two award winning artists do a cover and then not using it (though someone out there may correct me on this and show me it was printed). As you can imagine, when you are already strapped with a deadline on your regular book, doing extra pages is a bit of a burden on your time and when they dont see the day of light it is even more of a let down. But the upside is that you get these momentary breaks from your regular gig to draw something different. Take care. TODD
Posted on: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 06:30:21 +0000
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