Comic-book art; or life?

[RobertScorpio]

I was watching Spiderman 1 this weekend, and it dawned on me; Wilam Dafoe looks like a Jack Kirby face come to life. Jack Kirby had this unique way of drawing faces; and I swear Wilam Dafoe is the living versions..

Then I was looking at some old pictures of Clint Eastwood. I am confinced that Jim Aparo (the late great artist for 1970s-80s Brave and the Bold) bases his Batman's scowl on Clint Eastwood's scowl.

Can you think of other Comic-book heros who, just by accident, look like real people?

Rob
Scorpio

 

[Mysterion]

Then I was looking at some old pictures of Clint Eastwood. I am confinced that Jim Aparo (the late great artist for 1970s-80s Brave and the Bold) bases his Batman's scowl on Clint Eastwood's scowl.

I think Kevin Maguire did as well in the '80s during the Justice League International period.

 

[Dinosauricon]

Interestingly, Jack Kirby did very little Spider-Man work; it was mainly Ditko and Romita. I'm pretty sure he never drew the Goblin, masked or not (Apparentally the identity of the Goblin was one of the reasons Steve Ditko broke his partnership with Stan-Steve wanted it to be just some guy, but Stan wanted it to be a member of Spider-Man's supporting cast).

Interestingly, a lot of the modern potrayals of The Goblin seem based on Tommy Lee Jones's face rather than Dafoe's.


Wolverine, if you look at some of the early sketches of him without the mask (Done by Bryne, I recall, although it was Cockrum who drew Wolverine without the mask first) it looks like they were going for a combination Steve Mcqueen/Clint Eastwood look at first, instead of the wacky hairstyle we got (Although their attitudes were certainly incorporated into Wolverine).

Although not superheroes, certain characters in Jan Duuresama's STAR WARS work look a lot like certain actors:


http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Jariah_Syn looks a heck of a lot like Gary Dourdan, former star of CSI and Alien: Ressurection....

 

[coolghoul]

Interestingly, a lot of the modern potrayals of The Goblin seem based on Tommy Lee Jones's face rather than Dafoe's.

Do you truly see Tommy Lee's features in Normy or just the purple hair from his terrible Two-Face makeup?

I'd go with the purple hair primarily.


Buster Crabbe and Cap Marvel is I guess by design.

I nominate Vixen and Halle Berry (circa Swordfish) as my pick. It's uncanny how much I immediately think of Halle Berry when I see Vixen in the recently read JLA The Second Coming

Does anybody know that the Halle Berry look is intentional?

 

[RobertScorpio]

Interestingly, Jack Kirby did very little Spider-Man work; it was mainly Ditko and Romita. I'm pretty sure he never drew the Goblin, masked or not (Apparentally the identity of the Goblin was one of the reasons Steve Ditko broke his partnership with Stan-Steve wanted it to be just some guy, but Stan wanted it to be a member of Spider-Man's supporting cast).

Interestingly, a lot of the modern potrayals of The Goblin seem based on Tommy Lee Jones's face rather than Dafoe's.


Wolverine, if you look at some of the early sketches of him without the mask (Done by Bryne, I recall, although it was Cockrum who drew Wolverine without the mask first) it looks like they were going for a combination Steve Mcqueen/Clint Eastwood look at first, instead of the wacky hairstyle we got (Although their attitudes were certainly incorporated into Wolverine).

Although not superheroes, certain characters in Jan Duuresama's STAR WARS work look a lot like certain actors:


http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Jariah_Syn looks a heck of a lot like Gary Dourdan, former star of CSI and Alien: Ressurection....

Were the marvel artists trained to draw that square jaw that you can see from Darkseid (DC I know) and the other New Gods all the way to Ditko's art of the 60s 70s?

Rob

 

[Dinosauricon]

Not sure what you mean-Ditko's art was mainly thin and long-faced characters (Romita would give the characters more of a 'romance comic' look, which makes sense considering Spider-Man's partially a romance comic anyway).


Personally, I'm not a huge fan of Kirby's work outside of Fantastic Four, really....(blasphemy, I know)

 

[RobertScorpio]

Not sure what you mean-Ditko's art was mainly thin and long-faced characters (Romita would give the characters more of a 'romance comic' look, which makes sense considering Spider-Man's partially a romance comic anyway).

I am looking at Kirby's art right now. The Demon, Darkseid, his versions of captain America-thor, and other marvel heroes, have that square jaw..and I can easily see WILAM DEFOE playing any one of those parts..

Rob

 

[ManOnTheWave]

Wolverine, if you look at some of the early sketches of him without the mask (Done by Bryne, I recall, although it was Cockrum who drew Wolverine without the mask first) it looks like they were going for a combination Steve Mcqueen/Clint Eastwood look at first, instead of the wacky hairstyle we got (Although their attitudes were certainly incorporated into Wolverine).

I've had a sneaking suspicion that Byrne based his Wolverine on not just Clint Eastwood, but also on Toshiro Mifune of Yojimbo and other popular Japanese films. Logan and Sanjuro seemed to share a lot of mannerisms and facial expressions.

Byrne went on record in The X-Men Companion as basing his models during X-Men on popular actors and people in the news. Though he didn't always remember who he based his characters on. Sebastion Shaw was Sebastion Shaw. Donald Pierce was Donald Sutherland. Cyclops was... "some French actor." Professor X was ..."not Yul Brynner."

 

[RobertScorpio]

Wolverine, if you look at some of the early sketches of him without the mask (Done by Bryne, I recall, although it was Cockrum who drew Wolverine without the mask first) it looks like they were going for a combination Steve Mcqueen/Clint Eastwood look at first, instead of the wacky hairstyle we got (Although their attitudes were certainly incorporated into Wolverine).

I've had a sneaking suspicion that Byrne based his Wolverine on not just Clint Eastwood, but also on Toshiro Mifune of Yojimbo and other popular Japanese films. Logan and Sanjuro seemed to share a lot of mannerisms and facial expressions.

Byrne went on record in The X-Men Companion as basing his models during X-Men on popular actors and people in the news. Though he didn't always remember who he based his characters on. Sebastion Shaw was Sebastion Shaw. Donald Pierce was Donald Sutherland. Cyclops was... "some French actor." Professor X was ..."not Yul Brynner."

Yeah you know, I can see that. I like the not "Yul Brynner" line especially!!

Rob