Kurt Ruskin

Artist.

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@bckomix I don't think I've ever seen this one before. Good stuff!

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@blambot Maybe a dip pen. I didn't see anything else close to that in my stuff except the "sign pen" I think by Pentel but that was still probably too thick.

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@bckomix I'm assuming you're using sarcasm to avoid the fires that would consume you. That's not a gun and that's not a man. It was a storyline about an alien with a raygun impersonating a human so... basically Williamson could draw some Flash Gordon stuff for a month or two.

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@KevinWolffart Though Rubinstein was a very good inker, that double page spread was shot directly from pencils and colored. It was a short lived experiment for one issue where Byrne drew in full pencils and they shot from that. You can find the pencils for it online.

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@blambot Cover that up!! You can't post that kind of smut here.

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@shanedavisart Here's the 2nd one.

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@shanedavisart Here's the first one.

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Entry 2 for the #Annatomic art contest! It dawned on me that Mange might be judging the contest and we know what he likes. I banged out a 2nd entry in about 4 hours. It was just dry enough throw on the scanner.
@shanedavisart
@linyanzi

Get it here:
https://t.co/ci49ldA3rQ

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Entry for #Annatomic art contest! I designed it to leave room for cover dressing at the top. After inking it I realized I was not drawing a cover and I have no idea why I did that. Ran out of time to color it.
@shanedavisart
@linyanzi

Get it here:
https://t.co/ci49ldA3rQ

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@JoeMama86025054 @georgepereznet Here's the link to Jim Shooter's side. Worth reading.
https://t.co/6VHLbkHiPv

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@georgepereznet @JoeMama86025054 Here's the link from his website. Worth reading.
https://t.co/6VHLbkHiPv

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@BackintheBronze Yeah, they're horrifically bad design. But taking in those ad dollars might have been the knife's edge difference to keep them solvent. By 1982 they were most likely just grabbing easy money but late 70's Marvel was teetering at the cliffs of bankruptcy if memory serves.

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@georgepereznet DC gets a one time pass for this because they reprinted it without the changes inside.

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@BackintheBronze Al Williamson was an era.

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@bronze_age_zee @georgepereznet No idea why they left that out. The origin is different? Troy gets a new origin every 5 minutes.

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@ComicAwarenezz @GordonManl35328 The public answer was that Shooter demanded single issue stories and Stern left rather than rewrite his Red Skull trilogy(?). Shooter offered the writing gig to Byrne and he left out of solidarity and because he was Canadian. Pages of the next Byrne issue are out there.

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@ComicAwarenezz @GordonManl35328 says deadlines and that might be it. My guess is that if he was wrench tight on the pencils and it printed well enough, he got paid for the inking as well. If it worked, he could do that for every job. It turned out to slow him down. That's my best guess here.

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@bckomix So good.