Random sketches-12/23/13

Sketches for 12/6/13

Sketches for November 2nd 2013

Spidey, The Red Tornado and Batman.

It was a long holiday weekend in the Abbinanti household.

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Sam

Sketch of the day-Spidey

Used a sharpie and some white out on this Spider man piece.

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Sam

Sketch of the day-Doc Doom

Sketch of the day- The Beast

No he's not blue but orange will have to do.
I know this guy when I was still buying my comics under the 'El at  the Thorndale stop
here in Chicago.
He was cool then and he's still cool.

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Sam

Sketch of the day-The Spectre,

Always one of my favorites.
Golden age hero the Spectre
Using a sharpie and some white out.

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Sam

-the Atomic Punk." 30 years later.

Way back in the 80's before transferring to USC I attended Columbia College here in Chicago
They were cool enough to put a little comic strip in their paper called of all things 'The Atomic Punk"
It was my baby at the time.

Well 30 years later here he is.
Man where has the time gone.


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Sam

The S H O C K E R- Spidey villain

Another of my all time favorite Spidey villains

The Shocker'

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Marker and white pen on blue textured paper.

Sam

Thank You Lucca " we love you.

Over 200k wonderful people attended Lucca comics and Games this year.
Great Art, food and times had my all.
No better show in the world.

Gabriele Del Otto, Simone Bianchi, Esad Ribic , Claudio Villa, Gary Frank and how could we forget
Lucio Parrillo.
All stopped by and passed along the comic art love.

Ti Amo Italia"
See you next year.

Sam

Lucca Festival is upon us..ok two weeks.

Lucca comics and game arts festival is upon us.
This will be our 9th year exhibiting at what is my favorite show of the year.
We will be in tent Giglio E-339

Alex Ross and Bill Sienkiewicz
Original art, signed sketchbooks and a load of laughs for all.
Really looking forward to seeing all the beautiful people of Italy.

Warmest regards

Sam

'the Hostage" Pencils preview

A ton of work has been going into the Hostage" the new indy title ive been
working on for about a year now.
Want to show more but need to get it finished before I start pimping it.
Heres a double page spread of the monkeys as they discover three of the slain children.

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Sam

John Romita Spider man-"Rockomic"

Spiderman "Rockomic from the 1970's man the art by John Romita on the interior blew me away as a kid.Some of the best Spidey stuff to come out of my Era.

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Sam

Fan Expo-August 22-25 table P-79

Looking forward to seeing everyone this weekend at Fan Expo

I'll be in artist alley P-79

If you're up in the beautiful city of Toronto stop by for a few cracks.

Sam

Fan Expo -Toronto August 22-25 Artist alley table P-79

Cant wait to see everyone in Toronto next week at Fan Expo 2013
I will be in the Greatest Artist Alley of any show in the world at table P-79.

I want to thank my dear friend Tiziano De Santis for all the love and graciousness.

Please stop by I will be doing sketches for everyone.
Also have copies of my 2013 sketchbook.

xoxoxox

Sal

Marvel sketch cards 2010

Mark Irwin then with Upper Deck was nice enough to commission these Marvel Sketch cards.

A bit old I admit but wanted to share them anyway.

Thank you

Warmest regards

Sam

Back in the Saddle...whew...

Well SDCC 2013 is in the can and the rest of business is back on track.
I want to thank my crew- Chris, Justin, Carrie and Lexi

After a pit stop in Pitt ..Chicago is looking mighty nice.
My apologies for the tardiness.

My book
Atomika #1-12 is now located on  www.comixology.com

Also the great Bill Sienkiewicz is posting a charity piece on the
(piece posted here)
 fine folks at  www.comicartfans.com

Warmest regards

Sam

'SAM" sketchbook 2013 cover

MY sketchbook will be available at SDCC booths 2449 and 2419
full color and signed by yours truly.
$10

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Sam

2013 SDCC sketchbook.

Ok, Ive dragged my feet long enough..
Ive printed a 'sketch of the day" sketch book for this years SDCC
It will be available at the Alex Ross art booth 2419.
Also at my artist alley table at Fan Expo Toronto as well as in Lucca this fall.
Price $10 signed of course.

thank you for the love

Sam

unused proposal page-Marvel

Back in the day I use to work my butt of on proposals for the
brainiacs at Marvel and DC to consider...
this was a page from a Ragman proposal that DC comics rejected.
I think the guy that rejected it is now selling storm windows.

Sam

"Sam" sketchbook for 2013 cover

I've been hashing out a new sketchbook for a few years now.
Well I've finally got off my A and its going to press.

32 pages full color and here is the cover to prove it.
It will retail for $10 and will be introduced at Sdcc next month.
Limited to 1000 copies.

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Sam