James Groman

Me and a couple of cronies at American Greetings had scheduled an art show in the company gallery. The theme of the show was to be "The...

WAR OF THE COLLOSSAL FREAKS OF FRANKENSTEIN’S PLANET History of a Lost Film At the close of the year 1966, Italian Director: Sergio Leone ...

Here is our hero, Artemus Axel. All that exists from his earlier life before arriving on Frankenstein's Planet are the torn remains of h...

This happy guy is Argus Agg. He was a champion in the gladiatorial arenas of Frankenstein's Planet until he was defeated by Artemus Axel...

Everybody's gotta go check out the crazy stuff at Grumpy Bear Freak Show . We passed out a blank white vinyl care bear toy to over 60 ...

Here is my second full on acrylic Madball painting. This time it's Bashbrain, (original size: 16'' by 16''). This one to...

Here is an old cover that I worked on from a magazine called Model and Toy Collector. I did about 7-8 covers for this mag in the 90's, s...

Hello, Have not posted in some time. I have been hard at work on a number of projects as well as on a much needed vacation in California for...

These are two dinosaur sketches from a portfolio I did around 1992 for a trip I took to Los Angeles, California. At the time every big speci...

Here are two sculpts I did while freelancing many years ago. Both were released by Polar Lights/Playing Mantis and are based on film propert...

Anyone remember these guys? They appeared on television in the early 1960's when Super Saturday morning was owned by animators;William H...

Hit the " Buce & Gar" link to the left and check out some of my vintage 1980's comic book art from Buce & Gar number 1...

In the early 90's I sculpted one of my first garage kits called the Jupiterian. It was based on an animated creature created by special ...

From the land beyond beyond...from a world past hope and fear.... I bid you artwork now appear! The year: 1990. I had just completed my fir...

Anybody remember a toy line from the 1980's produced by Playmates Toys and American Greetings called Barnyard Commandoes? Barnyard Comma...

I was so inspired by the positive response to the new Madball line from American Greetings/Art Asylum, that I got jazzed up to do a painting...

Well lookie here! This is a piece of art I did for Geometric Design Models many years ago. It was for a full color booklet that was included...

Here is a little exersize I did a few days back to post on our "Sketch-o-Rama" blog. It is my first comic book page in about 8 yea...

Here is a rather large sculpture I did in 1997. The intent was to create a showpiece to help me obtain sculpting jobs from toy and collectab...

This is a sculpture I did for a company called Polar Lights/Playing Mantis of the infamous 1998 Sony Tristar Godzilla. It was intended to be...

And now for something completely different... I am currently working on a whole new relaunch of the old classic toy line from the 1980's...

As an experiment I tried taking one of my large pencil illustrations into photoshop to color. I am a huge fan of the work of Frank Frazetta,...

Another big ole' pencil rendering based on my script: Monster Hunter. This one depicts the shocking, shambling foot soldiers known as Zo...

One particularly interesting tertiary character in my screenplay is an ancient, legendary Celtic Vampire Warlord named Mangus Vladix. Here i...

Here is an illustration done a few years back depicting Adin's first encounter with the monstrous Celtic Vampire. Though this battle tak...

Here is a more..."simplified" version of my character: Mangus Vladix. Ready to enter the comic book world...

This is another version of a piece I originally did for a sister-blog called Sketch-o-Rama. It is a place where myself and a few fellow Amer...

Thought I would take a break from King Kong and Monster Hunter to post some shots of a few sculptures I have done over the years. As I might...

Here is one of my first sculpts. It was produced as a limited edition resin model kit. This SOB has outsold any other piece I have ever prod...

One of my favorite old Universal horror films, and one of my all-time favorite monster designs. This was a dream come true when I got the co...

This was done a few years back as an exclusive for Toys-R-Us. It's about 18 inches tall, and was produced in styrene. I am a long-time G...

Here is a rough sculpt I did for an action figure of my patchwork creation: Conglomeron. This was done before I really started sculpting pro...

In early 2002 I got the itch to write up a screenplay. I had some limited experience after having written a number of CD rom interactive scr...

These are the initial concept drawings I did for the proposed Monster Hunter: Aden and Conglomeron figures.

During the early 1990's I was a partner in a small design studio known as Zillion Concepts. We did Illustration, toy design and protypin...

Lets get things started with a couple pieces of art. These are a few years old, but are somewhat appropriate considering the release of Pet...

Hello, Yup. It's about time I got to Bloggin'. It has been a while since I let my Website lapse. I was hired by Hasbro toys a few ...