The Thing

Loved it when they gave Ben Grimm his own team up book in the seventies.

Not to mention his battles with Thundra.

Hey' in the sixth grade the FF was the sh--.

Blizzard on the way , keep you posted.

Sam

Atomika- Red Rain'

This one got away from me.

Atomika ' in the Apocalyptic rain

Sam

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The D e m o n

Love anything Kirby, so here goes.

Been having a rough week.

So glad to get out some of the poison on the art board..

Thank you for letting me share.

Sam

Luke Cage and Stoyas Drug store..

In the early seventies I use to buy my comics at the local corner drug store

(Stoyas drugs) Corner of Broadway and Bryn Mawr.

Stoyas was dead center to four Chicago schools

Swift, Pierce, St Gregory's ,Senn and was on the route to the Bryn Mawr 'L'

I bring this up because if you didn't get to the store the day the comics arrived

the place was cleaned out of any main stream titles by Marvel or DC.

Well in a predominantly Italian, Irish, Puerto Rican neighborhood

Black super heroes were not the main book coveted.

Spider man, FF etc you get the picture.

Well by the time I got my allowance ($2) Luke Cage (hero for hire) was the only super hero book left on the sparce picked over spin racks

Believe me I wasnt going for Archie or Richie Rich.

(Also Not a big DC fan as a kid)

I wanted super heros and didn't care that Luke Cage was a blackplotation hero

of the Marvel 1970's.

He was a bad ass and I loved him.

So what is my point, well to this day Luke Cage is my favorite Super Hero.

thank you for letting me share

'Go Bears"

Sam

Sketches of the day parade.

These are some of my little seen favorite pieces.

All done with Copic markers.

Sam

Atomika annual previews-KGB

A few more blue print roughs of the KGB types for the upcoming Atomika annual.

Much Love

Sam

Jan 18th 2011

Daredevil baby.

Go Bears!

This was one rough week.

Baby flu..over here not much in the ZzzzzZZZ department.

Thank you for letting me share.

Sam

Jan 14th in the naked city?

It's actually way to cold to be naked in this city (chicago)

Had a few nights this week that I needed to get the markers out.

So Black Panther and Atomika (atomic rain?) came to mind.

Everyone have a great weekend

Sal

The Spectre

The Spectre has always been one of my favorites

Had a bad piece of paper and just went with it.

Sam

Atomika-pieces keep coming-Sputnik

The haunted soul of a Cosmonaut trapped in space forever.

His name is 'Sputnik and he returns to defend the State of the Soviet Union.

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Sam

Atomika -GGB harpies (Atomika annual)

The holidays have put a funk on things around the business world but I'm ready to dive in.

Marvel has hired a new EIC-Axel Alonso which I think is a good move.

Axel is a great guy and will do a kick ass job.

I've been slowly adding some of the blueprint style images from the upcoming Atomika annual

They will be sort of Chapter dividers between short stories for , Iron Curtain, Sputnik

The White Wolf character and one or two others.

Also Atomika second trade will be solicited in Previews this winter so please ask your store owners to give it a shot.

Happy New Year everyone

Much Dago love

Sam

Its great to be back....2011

Have a few things in the pipeline..mostly finishing up some character sheets for

my Atomika sketchbook 2011.

Great to be back in the fold, the holidays really take their toll on business.

Miss getting up on here every day and posting.

I will be at several shows this spring C2E2 in Chicago and Wondercon in San Fran.

Thank you for letting me share.

Happy New Year all.

Sam