Wednesday, June 06, 2007

The Macabre Man-Thing


When I was a kid, Marvel Comic's "Man-Thing" was one of my favorite characters. I would dig through the comic book racks disgarding "Spiderman", "Captain America", "Fantastic Four" et all in search of the new issue of "Werewolf by Night", "Tomb of Dracula", "Monster of Frankenstein" or "The Macabre Man-Thing". Mostly because I dig anything with monsters, but partly because I loved the work of the one artist who worked on all 3 titles at one time or another: Mike Ploog. Mike could draw monsters, and his style reminded me a bit of Bernie Wrightson (another favorite of mine...). Seek out some of Mr. Ploogs work if you get a chance. You'll find that Hollywood discovered his talents long ago and he has worked as a storyboard artist and production designer on many a Sci-Fi/horror film. (most notably Ralph Bakshi's "Wizards, John Carpenters "The Thing" and "First Bood" to name a few...)
But remember this one thing as you look at the awesome array of monsters and beasties that flow from Mr. Ploogs fingertips...

"Whatever knows fear, burns at the Man-Things touch!!"

12 comments:

Patrick said...

I love checking out your blog- thanks for continuing to post here! Your work just blows me away everytime!! Nothing like a good monster! This Man Thing rendition is excellent!

rsellers said...

Jim, the MAN-THING rocks! Once more you've proved you're the Monster-Man!

Carlos V. said...

Jim Groman the Monster Man?? NICE!!!!! I love it Jim, too inspiring, must draw cool stuff now. By the way, I heard all the ladies love your Man-Thing...

Anonymous said...

Once a month is not enough! I keep checking this site every couple days in the hopes you'll post another piece. Guess you can't rush greatness...

tyler j.

Brine Blank said...

One of my favorites as well...I remember one of my first drawings was the Man-Thing I had drawn from a comic book...there was a guy firing with a machine gun and the great sound fx text was 'buddah-buddah-buddah'...everyone that looked at my drawing always thought that was a funny and I had to break out the original to ensure them that is the sound machines guns made...super work all the way around on here...new fan!

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