Archive Page 39 | Superman artist Gary Frank, Air and Space Museum in Washington DC

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Wednesday, January 9, 2008

Gary Frank Artwork
Gary Frank Art from Action Comics #858 Dec 2007

GARY FRANK ACTION COMICS
Gary Frank has been drawing the last several issues of Action Comics. His meticulous illustrative style is fascinating, beautiful stuff to look at. Action Comics has had a nice melange of talents recently drawing the book, and Frank's is the new face visualizing the perennial DC Comics star. There's sometimes a bit of a "freeze-dried" look to Frank's realistic style, but that's a problem that plagues many a page of comics' 'realism', where perfection of form and anatomy seems to knock out whatever liveliness should be in the art. But Frank is thorough and steady in page after page, and I hope he hangs in there for a good long run. Notice how controlled and effective his crosshatching is.

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Broad Street, Richmond Virginia

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See additional drawings by Erik Weems of people from around Richmond Virginia by going here.

Tuesday, January 8, 2008

Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina Shopping Couple
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Air and Space Museum in Washington DC
X 15 Aircraft Jet
X-15 Aircraft on display

X 15
X-15 jet aircraft at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum

If you need a miniature model version of the X-15 to have around the
house, you can get one here.

Over the New Years holidays, I made maybe my millionth visit to the Air and Space in DC. This time I was suddenly struck by the question: How did they get those airplanes to fly into the inside of the building and then were able to catch them on those hanging wires?

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Superman with Facial hair

Saturday, January 5, 2008

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It's becoming a cliche in some quarters to have poor old Superman outsmarted by the "World's Greatest Detective. " It doesn't help that many DC Comics' writers take on the "Man O' Steel" is to make him just shy of a complete lumbering moron. I sure do miss the wise-cracking man of action from the original Schuster and Siegel comics.

Action Comics No 1
The cover of the classic first issue of Action Comics with the first published appearance of the Joe Schuster and Jerry Seigel SUPERMAN.

Friday, January 4, 2008

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Key Bridge in Washington DC

The bridge was built in between 1917 and 1923 by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The side which enters into Washington DC is right near Francis Scott Key's home (no longer standing). Key is the man who wrote the Star Spangled Banner tune, aka the National Anthem of the United States.

I am a fan of bridges in general, and this one is my favorite in Washington DC.

More pix of DC (including Key Bridge from summer 2007) here.

Pictures of bridges around Richmond VA here.

Tuesday, January 1, 2008

The Washington Monument, December 2007.