Let's get the standard stuff out of the way.
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Now on to the bit!
So every week, I ask a question here. You reply to it on our Twitter page (just write @csbg with your reply) and our SIX blog sketch artists will each pick one of your suggestions and I will post them here every week. So every week you will have a new question and you will see the top six choices from the previous week.
To qualify, you have to be following us when you reply - so go follow us and then give your answer to the following question/challenge (all suggestions due by 11:59 PM Eastern on Thursday, September 16th):
This week's topic is pretty simple - team up a comic book character with a notable historical figure (Wolverine and Theodore Roosevelt fighting in the Spanish-American War, stuff like that).
You might ask yourself, "But Brian, wasn't that the topic LAST week?" It was, but that's because we decided to do a SPECIAL edition of The Line It Is Drawn this week. Superstar writer Peter David stopped by last week to give some suggestions for Comic Book Character/Sitcom mash-ups. While normally, as I tell you every week, only suggestions given to us on Twitter count, I decided to make an exception for Mr. David. If you win an Eisner Award, I will make an exception for you, as well. So if you want to make MORE suggestions for the historical figures topic, go right ahead - otherwise, I'll just send the artists the suggestions you already made.
Read on for the six sketches that came about courtesy of Peter David's suggestions for the following topic:
Mash-up comic book character(s) with a sitcom from the past or present (Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn as Laverne and Shirley, stuff like that).
Enjoy!
I'll put them in alphabetical order based on the first name of the artist.
All copyright and trademarks of the following characters are held by their respective owners!
Peter David suggested:
The Mary Tyler Morbius Show
Brad Millette is the artist for this one. Here is his website.
Peter David suggested:
Mockingbird and Hawkeye Pierce (talk about your MASH-ups)
Caanan Grall is the artist for this one. Here is his website.
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Peter David suggested:
X and the City
Daniel Irizarri is the artist for this one. Here is his website.
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Peter David suggested:
WKRP in Sin City
Erich Owen is the artist for this one. Here is his website.
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Peter David suggested:
Conan O’Brien the Barbarian
George Zapata is the artist for this one. Here is his website.
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Peter David suggested:
Adam Strange-12
Rafael Desquitado is the artist for this one. Here is his website.
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Great work, guys!
Thanks so much to the artists and Peter David for the suggestions! Now everyone head off to Twitter and give the artists more good choices for historical figure team-ups next week!
Also, while I will remind you Thursday as well, if you want to participate in our second monthly Reader Art Gallery, be sure to get your drawings to me at bcronin@comicbookresources.com by Thursday, October 14th by 2pm Eastern!