James Groman

Tuesday, December 23, 2008

My Pet Monster?

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I spent the day working on a My Pet Monster project at AG. I have always loved the character, and enjoyed revisiting this old brand from the...
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Thursday, October 30, 2008

South African Pygmy Plushtookan Warrior Fetish Figure

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I was recently asked to participate in the Midwest Plushform Show and create a customized plush figure as part of a gallery event and auctio...
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Tuesday, September 30, 2008

The Mighty Thor!!

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Man, has it been a long time since I did a sketch-o-rama drawing!! Carlos Villagra has finally succeeded in prodding me into putting down my...
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Monday, September 22, 2008

New Madball Paintings

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Yes, I have been missing in action for the last few weeks. I am overloaded with freelance and some other personal projects that need my undi...
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Thursday, July 24, 2008

Boose & Gar are at San Diego Comicon!!

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They're here! I've finally got my first shipment of the Boose & Gar Collected Graphic Novel! I am taking a bunch to San Diego fo...
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San Diego Comicon Madball Exclusive!!

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Howdy! I'm off to San Diego Comicon today, and will be stopping by the Basic fun/Underground Toys booth at the show to check on Madballs...
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Saturday, May 31, 2008

Inside the Studio...

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My wife took this photo for the opening pages of my Boose & Gar collected comic. Thanks, my sweet!
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Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Arrrr, Madballs!!

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Its Madball painting number 3! This time it's Blech Beard the pirate, a real cool Madball design from Wave 2, (should be on toy shelves...
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Monday, May 05, 2008

Boose -n- Gar Front and Back Covers

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Here is the nearly finished front cover image to the Boose n Gar Collected book! (I say nearly because I have been known to tweek these thin...
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Sunday, April 27, 2008

The Boys Are Back...

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I have mentioned before on this blog that I created, wrote and illustrated a comic book back in the 1980's-90's called Buce n Gar. A...
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Monday, April 07, 2008

Charlton Heston:1924-2008

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I heard the news that Charlton Heston died this weekend. This demanded that I pick up a pencil, and honor him with a sketch. Heston was one...
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Friday, April 04, 2008

War of the Collossal Freaks of Frankenstein's Planet Comic Book Page!

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This comic page was sent to me by an anonymous source from somewhere in Florence, Italy. It was rumored that a comic book adaptation of WOTC...
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War of the Collossal Freaks Trailer

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Film Fan and archivist Jorge Lacera has begun reconstruction of the original movie trailer for this lost film. This is a work in progress, b...
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Sunday, January 20, 2008

YO, JOE!!

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Saxton Moore is having a Gi Joe art contest over at his blog and Channel Frederator, and I decided to add an entry. Back in the late sixties...
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Friday, November 02, 2007

Sushi Pack Premier on Saturday Morning November 3rd on CBS!

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For the last couple years a number of us at American Greetings have been in development on a Saturday morning animated show called Sushi Pac...
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Sushi Pack Designs

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Monday, October 01, 2007

Happy Birthday: Jim!

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Wow!! This last weekend was my birthday, (it aint none of yer business how old I am...) and my wonderful wife surprised me with a road trip ...
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Tuesday, September 04, 2007

OMEGASAURS!

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Another Kaiju blast from the past... This was a cover I did for a proposed comic book many years back called OMEGASAURS. It depicts a battle...
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Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Kaiju Krispies

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Recently I participated in a project called Cereal Killers for Doktor Victor VonCreep at Creepsville Industries. Alot of heavy hitters are i...
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Thursday, August 09, 2007

Madball Backer Card!!

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Its Madball mania here at the James Groman Blog! Here is a rough-almost-final version of the new Madball backer card graphics in all it'...
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Monday, August 06, 2007

Madballs sighted at San Diego Comicon!!!

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MADBALLS AT COMICON!! Toy Tokyo was selling the new Madballs at San Diegos 2007 Comicon event! They were released in preliminary packaging....
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Thursday, June 28, 2007

DARTH TALON

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Here she is...our new Sketch-o-Rama subject for this month.... Darth Talon!!
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Wednesday, June 06, 2007

The Macabre Man-Thing

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When I was a kid, Marvel Comic's "Man-Thing" was one of my favorite characters. I would dig through the comic book racks disga...
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Thursday, May 10, 2007

THE LIZARD STRIKES!

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Here is my rendition of Spiderman's arch-nemisis, Doctor Curt Connors. Alias: THE LIZARD! I have read that Sam Raimi originally approa...
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Friday, May 04, 2007

DEAD OR ALIVE, YOUR COMING WITH ME!

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Heres my sketch for Sketch-o-Rama. ROBO-SLOP!
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Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Ben lookin' Grimm

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This was done for Sketch-o-Rama. My second attempt at Mr. Grimm as a full-on, photoshop critter. Kinda like it. Just about 2 hours in Photos...
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Saturday, April 07, 2007

Thark Portrait

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Here is my final Thark image. If you take a trip over to Sketch-o-Rama you'll see it there too. With a different background.
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Tuesday, April 03, 2007

Thark Sketches....

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Awesome news from the world of entertainment.The rights to Edgar Rice Burrough's (The man who invented Tarzan) novel: "A Princess O...
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Thursday, February 22, 2007

Emperor of Frankenstein's Planet!!

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Here is a drawing I did of the omnipotent Emperor of Frankenstein's Planet. He is flanked by his two most trusted bodyguards, and has in...
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Monday, February 12, 2007

"Spontaneous Embellishment!"

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Check out my previous post to see the rough pencil drawings from which these inks sprang. Once again, I did these at lightspeed, not wanting...
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More Freaks!!

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Recently unearthed! I found this lobby card for the 1967 production of Sergio Leone's "War of the Collossal Freaks of Frankenstein...
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Tuesday, December 12, 2006

T-Rex-ariffic!

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I have had a little dinosaur project in the works for some time now, and have been playing around with some concepts using textures in Photo...
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Thursday, November 09, 2006

Tribute

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I got the news that film composer Basil Poledouris died this week. Being a fan of motion picture soundtracks, he was one of my favorite comp...
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Thursday, November 02, 2006

Riddle of the Tauntaun...

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In honor of our latest Sketch-o-rama subject (sketching a Star Wars Tauntaun) I thought I would post a photo of a sculpt I did for Ertl Coll...
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Davy Jones Pub Sign

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Well, it has been a while since I updated my gromansculpt blog with progress shots of my Centaur monster sculpt. And here is my excuse. I wa...
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Thursday, October 26, 2006

Lord Vader? Izzat you?

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INTERIOR: REBEL BLOCKADE RUNNER -- MAIN HALLWAY. The awesome, seven-foot-tall Dark Lord of the Sith makes his way into the blinding light of...
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Thursday, October 05, 2006

Horrible Half-Man Hughes....

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Many years ago I created a villianous centaur monster to do battle with my Monster Hunter character (see my previous posts). He was a gigant...
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Saturday, September 16, 2006

Freaky fun....

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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...
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History of a lost film...

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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 ...
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Clint Eastwood as Artemus Axel

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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...
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Gladiator Freak #1

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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...
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Friday, September 08, 2006

Beauty and the Bear...

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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 ...
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James Groman
I am a Cleveland, Ohio based Sculptor, Illustrator,Toy and Animation Character Designer.
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