Blake Sims Comics

Winter 2012 Sketchbook Excerpts

2012-01-17T08:41:00.000-08:00

I've been experimenting with water color over the past week. Behold my meager attempts:

Fall 2011-Winter 2012 Sketchbook

2012-01-10T13:58:00.000-08:00

I snatched up this neat little book, I think it's meant for surveyors or some such occupation.

The cover.

First spread with obligatory egotistical self portrait.

WAE Presents: Twix Turnbolt's Proposition

2012-01-02T07:05:00.001-08:00

To be continued...

Twix Turnbolt's Claim For the World Heavyweight Title

2011-12-13T17:29:00.001-08:00

WAE Presents: Twix Turnbolt vs Skip Foreman

2011-12-09T12:14:00.000-08:00

Lance Hartcastle's "Wrench" Gibbs Interview

2011-12-02T13:43:00.000-08:00

WAE Presents: TOMAHAWK vs "WRENCH" GIBBS!!!!!

2011-10-31T17:08:00.000-07:00

Prints From Last Semester

2011-08-29T16:41:00.000-07:00

These are prints I did for a mezzotint/dry-point class last semester:

They were all tied thematically together. My idea was they were all characters in the same post-nuclear fallout world.

Drawings From Last Semester

2011-08-29T16:34:00.000-07:00

I had a Surrealism Drawing class last semester, here are a few of the drawings I completed for it.

I did this one as a series studying movement.

I still have a few to scan, but I think these are some of the better ones.

Lex Luger

2011-08-29T16:24:00.000-07:00

I drew this based on Lex Luger's plain clothes appearance on the very first televised WCW Nitro.

For those unfamiliar with Lex Luger, he was a popular late 80s/90s wrestler for WWF(now WWE) and the WCW [among others]. He was a big muscle head who's finishing move was the Torture Rack, which was amazing as a child, but kind of silly looking as a semi-grown up.

End of the Summer Sketchbook

2011-08-26T12:59:00.001-07:00

With the final page I decided to do a self portrait.

Summer Sketchbook

2011-08-19T07:06:00.000-07:00

Sketchbooooooook

2011-08-11T12:01:00.000-07:00

More Sketchbookery

2011-08-09T06:47:00.000-07:00

A few more drawings. I did all of these at a friends house last night. My hand hurts.

Summer Sketchbook Excerpts Part Two

2011-08-08T11:33:00.000-07:00

So a majority of these came from a sketching session at the mall. The first two of the table were from a sweet little cafe/coffee shop type thing.

All of them were done in color, but for some reason they scanned in B&W and I'm too lazy to rescan them.

Summer Drawing Course Sketchbook Excerpts

2011-08-06T09:59:00.000-07:00

I just completed a summer drawing course, it was challenging and fun. I'll post some of the pieces I completed during the course over the next couple of weeks. I'll start with some of the sketches I did during that time.

The Last Two

2011-05-09T16:50:00.000-07:00

The Million Dollar Man's Feast
based on Rembrandt's "Feast of Belshazzar"

The Blinding of Andre
based on Rembrandt's "The Blinding of Samson"

What I've Been Up To Lately

2011-04-30T09:26:00.001-07:00

Hulk Hogan Reveals His Knowledge of Jake the Snake's Betrayal
based on Da Vinci's "Last Supper"

The Betrayal of Hulk Hogan
based on Caravaggio's "The Taking of Christ"

Brawn over Brains
based on Raphael's "The School of Athens"

So for the last set in my Digital Printmaking class I decided to recast figures from classic paintings with wrestling figures from my childhood. So take that Da Vinci, Caravaggio, and Raphael!

Cyclops and Rom the Space Knight

2011-03-16T15:30:00.000-07:00

A ROM Napkin Drawing:

Iceman

2011-03-14T17:04:00.000-07:00

Digital Prints

2011-03-09T09:22:00.000-08:00

I'm taking a digital printmaking class this semester. It's broken down so we do 3 sets of 5 prints. The first 5 I did were homages to old men's magazine covers from the 1950s-60s. I had a blast working on them.

The first is called Savage Safari.

UNTAMED FURY

REAL MAN STORIES

MAN'S MAN TALES

SPACE ACE

Melon Man Comics!

2011-03-05T18:26:00.000-08:00

For a while now I've had Melon Man stories collecting dust, so I finally decided to get serious about making them. I thought it'd be a better idea to create a separate place for the stories. The link is below. So far there are two shorter stories, but soon there will be some longer form stories posted.

http://melonmancomics.blogspot.com/

Recolored Oldy.

2011-02-02T16:39:00.000-08:00

Popeye

2011-01-22T08:39:00.001-08:00

For Fun

2011-01-20T12:08:00.001-08:00

I've Been Featured on the RePULPED Blog!

2011-01-10T06:37:00.000-08:00

Check it out!

I Have An Entry Up At RePaneled!

2011-01-03T09:03:00.000-08:00

I redid a panel from the Time Tunnel #1! Check it out!

Annie & Luke Killin' Ma' Fuckin' Zombies!: BIRTHDAY CRISIS

2010-12-31T16:54:00.000-08:00

Twin Peaks

2010-12-28T13:35:00.000-08:00

FALL 2010 Drawings 4

2010-12-27T12:33:00.001-08:00

Study.

Ritual piece. I couldn't think of any ritual other than smoking.

Sequential Piece. I really enjoyed this one.

FALL 2010 Drawings 3

2010-12-27T12:31:00.000-08:00

She called this one a spatial echo. Creating depth from just vertical lines.

Two of the live model drawings.

FALL 2010 Drawings 2

2010-12-27T12:30:00.000-08:00

The 50 self portraits culminated in this piece.

2 of the 50 self portraits.

FALL 2010 Drawings 1

2010-12-27T12:28:00.001-08:00

Survivors of the Nuclear Holocaust.
My final piece.
30+" x 27+/-".

Screenprints Pt. 2

2010-12-27T12:05:00.001-08:00

Charles Nelson Reilly.

D.H. Lawrence For LIFE-FIX.

Screenprints Pt. 1

2010-12-27T12:01:00.000-08:00

BADASSSSS.

BADASSSSS Proof.
I really liked how the colors sat on the brown paper.

Lithography Prints

2010-12-27T11:44:00.000-08:00

Untitled.

This was my first lithograph.

22 Citizens of Smog.
This was the 2nd lithograph, I did this one on a piece of limestone. The other two were done on aluminum plates.

Portrait of the Artist With An Elephant's Head.
This was my last lithograph of the semester.

FINALLY

2010-12-17T19:29:00.000-08:00

I'm done with school for the semester, which means I can focus on my own stuff for a change. I'll be posting some higher quality pictures of the work I did over the past few months, starting next week (or earlier).

Check It Out

2010-10-16T07:42:00.000-07:00

I recently had a entry on the super cool blog, Repaneled!

http://repaneled.blogspot.com/2010/10/blake-sims-repanels-captain-america.html

More Alliterations

2010-10-11T15:20:00.001-07:00

Bumbling British Burglars Bombastically Barricaded, Bequeathed Barking Boasts Between Barry Bobkins Back Behind Blue Blazer's Beboppin' Bosnian Botanical Backgammon Boards.

Flaming Freddy Followell Figits Following Freakishly Festive Formals, Furthermore Finding Forlorn French Families Flexing Fixed Flemish Fish For Forgetting First Fist Fight Fright Formulated For Fabulous Franklin Flush.

Unusually Unforgiving Urban Ukrainian Under-lords Usurped Ukuleles and Unearthed Uncomfortable Unguents.

Yes, Yanni Yelps Yearly Yearning for Yelling Yellow Yaks.

Ronald Regan and Robert Redford Relax Reflecting on Range Rovers Repopulating Religiously.

Xenophobic Xhosas ride Xebecs while Xeroxing Xylophones.

Zealous Zionists Zap Zirconium Zygote Zest and Zonk Zany Zaftig Zebu and Zebra Zombies drinking Zinfandel.

Howard Hughes Hazardously Hangs Humongous Horizontally Heated Hearths, and Heckles Herbert Hoover's Hat.

Official Oval Office Operators Often Obliterate Open Ox Obituaries while Organists Obnoxiously Obscure Obscene Obstetricians.

Easy E Enthusiastically Earns Electric Energy Every Evening.

Unused Submissions

2010-10-01T08:17:00.000-07:00

Taken from: Iron Jaw, Plastic Man, and Planet Of Vampires respectively.

Big Trouble In Little China

2010-09-27T16:37:00.000-07:00

SHIT YEAH!

Seriously if you have yet to see this movie, go out and get to it. It's amazing.

Alliterations

2010-09-20T14:04:00.000-07:00

The Paltry Prowess of Powerful Principalities.

The Sacrificial Sun-dried Student Superficially Shuns the Soured Suspects Slinky Sheets.

Advanced Astronauts Accidentally Allow Access Across Artificial Areas.

Dirty Demonic Dead-heads Deliberately Diss "Dirty Deeds" Describing Defiantly as Done to Death.

Quivering Queens Quickly Quit Quipping.

Tectonically Thrusting Thirsting Tigers Totally Thought Tiny Tim Tragically Toasted his Trousers Totaling Ted Turner's Titanic Tibetan Tribute Telecast.

the Carbolic Cavities of the Clunky Celebratory Conventions Continuously Convulse Comically Causing Caches Carrying Condiments to Charte Cathedral

Vicious Vaudevill Vixen Vivien Vandersloot Vanished Visiting Vivacious Veteran Ventriloquist Victor Vonhimmel Victoriously Vamping in Vegas.

Prison Pit

2010-09-18T09:59:00.000-07:00

I've known for some time that Johnny Ryan was awesome. So I had a pretty good idea that the first volume of Prison Pit would be badass. I was right. Now the time for volume 2 has come, it too was supremely badass. You should all read them, it's totally worth it.

Previews for both volumes.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fantagraphics/4918945948/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fantagraphics/4919115330/

My rendition of the main character: C.F. (Cannibal Fuckface)

Fantastic Four Cover

2010-08-31T09:34:00.000-07:00

I was going to submit this to the Covered blog, but I decided not to.

LUKE CAGE POWERMAN

2010-08-30T15:30:00.001-07:00

I had planned on doing this for so long, I wish I could have spent some more time on it. Still a blast to work on.

California Sketchbook Part 2- Updated With 2 Pages I Forgot

2010-08-23T09:21:00.000-07:00

California Sketchbook Part 1

2010-08-23T08:21:00.000-07:00

Here's some stuff from my trip to Santa Monica-

Logor Rescues A Princess Part IV of XII

2010-08-07T08:53:00.000-07:00

Spiderman

2010-07-29T13:46:00.001-07:00

I Wish I Could Take Credit For This

2010-07-20T08:28:00.000-07:00

Earlier this year I found this amazing book of painted covers to men's magazines from the 1950-70s. It's basically the greatest book ever. But this one was one of the spreads. Badass right?

Here's the original:

FOR MEN
7/1967
by Mort Kunstler

Drive Through Speakers Can Be Deceiving

2010-07-15T06:48:00.000-07:00

Yo

2010-07-04T19:31:00.000-07:00

Two More

2010-06-24T13:45:00.001-07:00

Chewbacca

Deadman

Other Doodlins

2010-06-22T07:48:00.001-07:00

Batman baddie Clayface.

The team Nextwave

and then Scorpion/Reptile/Subzero from Mortal Kombat breaking some fucking rocks!

Recent Doodles

2010-06-19T08:56:00.001-07:00

The first few are from a drawing challenge to combine two existing characters. I chose Batman and Daredevil, thus creating THE DEVIL.

Then I decided to give him longer horns. Then two characters from Mortal Kombat.
Goro

Baraka

PREVIEW:ZOMBIES ATTACK!!! A Song by AMERICANS UK Adapted by ME!

2010-06-10T13:29:00.001-07:00

It'll be featured in the fourth issue of their comic, which will be coming pretty soon. You'll be able to order them online when they do come out! I'm sure you'll want to seeing as they'll be massively bad ass.

New Cover on Robert Goodin's Covered Blog! Huzzah!

2010-06-01T07:08:00.000-07:00

Check out my version of Rick Veitch's 1963 cover:

Annie and Luke Killin Ma' Fuckin' Zombies Part 1- UPDATED WITH COLOR VERSION

2010-05-28T08:45:00.000-07:00

Over two weeks late, but so what?

2010-05-20T10:20:00.000-07:00

THE AFTER FREE COMIC BOOK DAY 2010 RAPSCALLION SUPER FREE SAMPLER EXTRAVAGANZA YEAH!!!

12 PAGES IN B&W ON COLORED PAPER.
FEATURING SOME STUFF YOU'VE SEEN AND STUFF YOU HAVEN'T!

IF YOU LIVE IN BOWLING GREEN AND WANT A COPY LET ME KNOW, WE CAN MAKE IT HAPPEN. IF YOU'RE NOT, WE CAN MAKE THAT HAPPEN TOO!

He-Man Vs Skeletor!

2010-05-14T14:21:00.001-07:00

MORE It'sa Me...Mario!

2010-04-30T08:04:00.000-07:00

It'sa Me...

2010-04-24T07:52:00.001-07:00

Wrestlers Part II

2010-04-17T14:31:00.000-07:00

Bam Bam Bigelow, "Ravishing" Rick Rude, Brutus "The Barber" Beefcake, Razor Ramon, The Rock, Sgt. Slaughter, Andre the Giant, Doink the Clown, and The Big Boss Man.

So I went a little nuts with Rick Rude's hair, but I think you get the picture. Look for Part III soon! (I've planned to do at least 9 or 10 of these)

Fine Art Galactus

2010-04-13T09:50:00.000-07:00

The drawing challenge was fine art and Galactus. So here's my bastardization of an awesome Magritte painting.

Wrestlers Part I

2010-04-09T09:42:00.000-07:00

I'm starting something new, portraits of my favorite wrestlers from the 80s and 90s.

So from the top we have: Hulk Hogan, "Macho Man" Randy Savage, the Ultimate Warrior (my personal favorite), Bret "the Hitman" Hart, King Kong Bundy, Yokozuna, Jake "the Snake" Roberts, and last but not least The Legion of Doom (Hawk/ Animal).

Check back for more soon! I'll probably be doing a good deal of these. There are just so many to choose from.

Cosmo > Class

2010-04-02T07:11:00.000-07:00

and so do I evidently, as I spent a better part of the same class drawing this! huzzah!

Further Proof: Logor Rescues A Princess Part III of XII

2010-03-28T16:41:00.001-07:00

I might had some to this I dunno.

I'm not dead.

2010-03-24T16:54:00.000-07:00

Luke Cage...POWERMAN

2010-03-10T12:15:00.000-08:00

Same deal as Thor, Iron Man, and Aquaman. This time it was LUKE CAGE, POWERMAN!

I did not change much from his 70s costume. I'll be drawing that soon though.

The Flash

2010-03-05T08:53:00.000-08:00

the Corner

2010-02-24T10:04:00.000-08:00

I took part in a exercise to redesign a book cover. I chose the Corner by David Simon and Ed Burns. If you haven't read it you definitely should. It's an amazingly depressing book, but well worth the effort. Also if you've watched and loved the Wire this is right up your alley.

Aquaman

2010-02-23T07:39:00.000-08:00

HUNGER

2010-02-20T08:51:00.000-08:00

Logor Saves A Princess Part II of XII

2010-02-17T10:49:00.001-08:00

BAD ASS OLDER I STUMBLE UPON PART 2!!

2010-02-15T10:25:00.000-08:00

The comic I'll be discussing this time is from good ol' Atlas Comics: John Targitt...MAN-STALKER!

I found the second issue of an apparent three. The story seems fairly close to the Punisher's from what I can tell from this one issue.
There was one part of the issue I could not help but love, so I redrew it for your viewing pleasure:

So yeah Mr. Targitt was a bad ass. Not only did he throw a guy into what I assumed was some sort of hot chemical, he shot at him 3(!) times!

You can find more information about Targitt here:

Blade Runner

2010-02-13T07:08:00.000-08:00

Logor Rescues A Princess Part I of XII

2010-02-01T08:23:00.000-08:00

I'm doing this as part of a 12 page, 1 page per month, comics exercise. We'll see how it goes.

Indiana Jones

2010-02-01T08:10:00.001-08:00

Guest Strip on the Daily Crosshatch!

2010-01-29T07:53:00.001-08:00

Check it out!

http://thedailycrosshatch.com/2010/01/29/guest-strip-blake-sims/#more-5570

New Segment!!!! Badass Older Comics I Stumble Upon #1

2010-01-27T06:53:00.000-08:00

I go searching in the 50 cent bins a lot, you can find hidden treasures among other shittier comics. You can find newer stuff, but I also happen to come across a lot of older comics. Stuff from the late 60's to the 70's or so. Which I've found to be some of the funniest/greatest stuff I've ever read.

The first book I'll talk about is from Atlas Comics, it's called IRON JAW! Basically a Conan/ Krull type but...with a fucking iron jaw. I found issue #2 (there were only 4 issues apparently), which featured our hero battling a huge bear. It was titled IRONJAW the KING!

Here are some selected quotes that I found irresistible:

This one was on the first page, a kind of primer to this badass named Ironjaw.

"He rode from the forest astride a great UNICORN, this fearsome warrior with an IRON JAW. His weapons are the bow, the knife, and the axe, and wherever he goes, DEATH follows. For his is not a shining legend of heroism, but a hideous saga of one man's survival."

This last one happens to be a the last line of of the book.

"As for me, I would rather wonder the Earth ALONE, or ride with TARLOK and his band of ROBBERS! At least they respect what is truly IMPORTANT in my life...FIGHTING...STEALING....and worshiping the STARS!!"

You can find more information about the comics here: (you can also scope out the Neal Adam's covers for this issue and the first)
http://www.atlasarchives.com/comics/ironjaw02.html

Also I could not go without drawing Iron Jaw so for your pleasure:

Hey It's Plastic Man!

2009-12-25T00:08:00.000-08:00

Meeting David Byrne

2009-12-17T18:30:00.000-08:00

11-16-09

2009-12-15T18:21:00.000-08:00

Plasticman!

2009-12-15T18:19:00.001-08:00

Untitled

2009-12-15T17:59:00.000-08:00

A Message From D.H. Lawrence

2009-12-15T17:58:00.000-08:00

Rapscallion #5 Now Available

2009-12-15T17:39:00.001-08:00

1/4 page mini comic. 24 full color pages. $3.00.

Featuring Logor, Journal Comics, and other stories.

If you're interested send me an email.