spikedpsycho
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Anyone find a tickle scene in mainstream comics? Feel Free to show them here
Those last three are new to me, are the last two mainstream comics?
Wonderful drawings there! Thanks for the link.The second of the three is not mainstream. It's one of the Ruthless 4 by The Agency Publishing as you can see here:
http://agency-publishing.deviantart.com/art/Pinup-2-for-The-Ruthless-4-189364731
Great pic anyway...
It's been so long since I've read any comics but I suspect the last one where the girl is tickled with the feather is from Spiderman, or a Spiderman spin-off. The bad guys talks about the "Eight-Legged Menace" and the file is called "Last Chance for Mary Jane" and Mary Jane is Peter Parker's girlfriend (whom he has tickled before). My $.02 anyway
And for one of the posts further up the page -- who knew that Nightwing was a tickle-bug?? Lol
Those last three are new to me, are the last two mainstream comics?
Wait, what? Actual Marvel artists?? That's awesome!! We've gone mainstream! w00t w00t!
Nah, seriously now, that "scenes we'd like to see" was a great idea. Was that a post on the TMF? If so could you link it here? How many of these did you commission?
I read a lot of Marvel and Image comics when I was younger. I kind of dropped them at the turn of the 2000's when they lost their "edge". I saw an editor's interview on TV back in 2004 who said that he believed that post 9/11, there was an editorial change towards more optimism in the stories. That was also when they started to focus more on movie productions, with the somewhat surprising success of the relatively tame Spiderman and X-men. Nevertheless they remain a big influence on me to this day, as you can see from my signature.
I love the "classic" style of your comissioned pic. It really looks great; a delightful throwback to those times. Maybe MTJ should consider hiring that artist fulltime? I'd certainly buy!
It's more common practice than perhaps realized?
We had artists currently and formerly working for big studios rather constantly when releasing books. We had ex-Disney artists on some arcs of The Agencies, ex-Marvel/DC/Image on a mix of specific The Ruthless and The Agencies: Frontiers issues. They usually have great work ethics as they were pros and after you went through some revisions, adapted pretty well to what was needed. As the old adage goes, you get what you pay for
Oh this is great! Awesome, even. Honestly, the comics you mentioned did have that "American comics" look to them, a big difference with MTJ. Oh how I would have loved to see a "tickling version" of, say, Witchblade or The Darkness! Maybe this is a job for master CAB, lol, but imagine how glorious that would be if it was done by the original artist ^_^ w00t w00t, I daresay!
This awesomeness notwithstanding, I really like this kind of posts that describe the "backstage" side of the operation. It's like Solemates' "no-nonsense" posts about the video business, we can take a peek behind the curtain and see the real side of things. It's so exciting Thank you kindly for sharing! And once again, kudos to you for the brilliant idea of hiring those guys!
This community has always been fortunate to have folks creating art for it that also create mainstream art for major studios. I kinda thought that was common knowledge.
You all realize that MTJ and several other publishers have worked with dozens (literally dozens) of professional artists who also work with DC Comics, Warner Brothers, Disney, Wildstorm, Marvel, Top Cow, and many other major studios, right? That's why this stuff is so damn good. Some of the creative teams I am currently working with do their day jobs for major studios working on projects like World of Warcraft comics, Star Wars, and others. Those are the guys and girls that fuel MTJ and this entire community. It's one of the reasons that companies like MTJ have been able to stay in business for almost 20 years and contribute almost 500 publications to our cool little genre: the community superstars they work with and the mainstream talent they partner with.
I thought everyone knew that...but now that I think about it...it's not something I hear most folks in this community bragging about. I guess it's a best kept secret.
I don't advertise what my creative teams spend their day jobs doing because I like these projects to stand on their own merit. If the comic is good enough it shouldn't need to trade on the resume of the artist. It should just be...a good tickle comic.
But yeah. If you folks were not aware that many of the talented folks who bring you your tickling comics were also mainstream comic artists...then let's set that record straight. We are so fortunate to have such talented peeps in our tiny genre. I'm no mainstream artist. But I have the amazing fortune of working with a ton of them.
Hooray for mainstream comics!
Hooray for tickling comics!!!
And may those of us who are fans of the tickling genre always be lucky enough to be able to benefit from such awesome talent,
The Deeto
There is absolutely no denying that MTJ's artists are awesomely talented. But their style, for most of them, is so unique that I have never recognized it on mainstream productions. Not that I read all of them of course, nor do I have a good eye, but still when I see, say, Bohemianne's or FTKL's work, I do not think "Marvel" or "Top Cow". The only artist whose style I recognized immediately was Cagri (of TT Academy), but it was on a quite good S&M comic, so it was still erotica.
I agree with you that we don't need to know the artist's resume to find the tickling art awesome. But besides my naive self, I do not believe that many people realized that the people you have at MTJ could be major players IRL. I mean, it does make sense now that I think about it (talent is talent, whatever use you make of it), but I don't think it is super obvious to everyone.
You really got me thinking, my friend. I wonder if it is just me, but it is true that I tend to put a mental "wall" between the fetish side of things and the "real-life" professional one. Like the two worlds can never overlap; but actually they can.
I stand corrected, and I apologize if I ruffled any feathers. What a great topic evoke in my next emails to my artist friends, haha