Tag: Jason Young

Pressed Tongue

Homage to one of my all time favorite artists in the world of comics (or anywhere else)… Dave Cooper. This is my rendition of the cover to issue three of his book ‘Pressed Tongue’ published by Fantagraphics back in the ’90’s. Below is the original by Cooper.

Emerald Ripley Young

Birth announcement I made last week when my wife gave birth to our beautiful baby girl! The design is a homage to a birth announcement drawn by cartoonists Kim Deitch and Trina Robbins to announce their daughter Casey.

Bill Everett Daredevil Homage

Another tribute to the great Bill Everett. This one was fun to draw because of the cartoonish thugs with their campy dialogue. I have also always been partial to DD’s original costume. By the way, this one was done just for fun but should you be interested in having me recreate any comic book page …

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Little Bird

Darcy Van Poelgeest and Ian Bertram’s Little Bird #1 released this week from Image Comics. It is a fantastical beautiful nightmare with mystery and oddities abound. Do yourself a favor and pick up a copy. The above is my depiction of a couple (or three) characters from the debut issue drawn while listening to Angels …

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Queen of Dark

Yesterday while watching my wife flip through a fashion magazine I saw a striking image. It was a picture of South Sudanese-American model Nyakim Gatwech. I immediately began this pencil drawing of the beautiful “Queen of Dark” which I finished this morning before breakfast. I like to listen to instrumental music while I draw and …

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