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Mike Manley

@drawmanley.bsky.social

Veteran of animation and comics. Artist The Phantom, Judge Parker, editor of Eisner nominated Draw! Magazine and Co-Host on the Pencil-to-Pencil Podcast

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One of the few Batman covers I got to do on my run

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Never forget who you’re fighting for.

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A black and white photo of him

A black and white photo of him

An issue of Incredible Science Fiction from EC Comics, the first House of Mystery paperback, an issue of House of Secrets from DC Comics, and an issue of House of Mystery also from DC.

An issue of Incredible Science Fiction from EC Comics, the first House of Mystery paperback, an issue of House of Secrets from DC Comics, and an issue of House of Mystery also from DC.

Today is the birthday of writer Jack Oleck (March 1, 1914-March 10, 1981), most remembered by comic fans for his work on horror comics.

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This weeks Judge Parker. Sunday colors by @mimisimon.com

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This weeks Phantom

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That’s a nice one Jerry!

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Hahaha

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Hahaha

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A caricature of me by Al Williamson back from when Blevins and I shared his studio in the 80’s

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Walt Simonson was on a panel with him and said Golden said I was number 2-3 of his favorites so that’s high praise!

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Yeah. Those things literally were killing you. One of the deadliest tools that bestine was a huge cancer risk. They were great to use though.

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You can still smell that marker I bet!

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Another sample piece from my ad arts days, a year before my first DC Comics work, 1979

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Some old trading card art

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Grimaldi finishing up his demo from 2014 when he briefly taught at PAFA

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A page of my inks over Michael Golden a fun but hard job.

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Throwback to high school . An old drawing from around 1980 or so, of Frankenstein on tracing paper. I can see I was trying to keep it in 4 major values having gotten a copy of Andrew Loomis's Creative Illustration. I never finished it or some reason, maybe because I ended up disliking it.

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Join us tomorrow as we ink a classic comic page live! That’s right there will be a live demo inking in clip studio over a classic comic page from Marvel or DC. You’ll see inking is drawing and interpretationβ€” not tracing!! @jamarnicholas.bsky.social @steveconley.bsky.social

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Thanks!

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Yanick’s Art News Table of Content. Order In chaos

Y'all need to be following @yanickpaquette.bsky.social 's Art Tutorials on his substack. Smart, funny, informative, and of course, he draws real pretty: open.substack.com/pub/yanickpa...

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Boy I sure do miss these books at DC. Really the most fun to work on β€”- as was working at WB animation. 1/3

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If the moon was out a study out doors or a comp study-seven days a week for three months!! If the student was late, no crit! That's how I wish PAFA was , modern art students are wussies! His students were some of the best illustrators and painters ever, Cornwell, Tepper, Schaeffer, Riley, Schmidt.

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Boy do I wish art school was like this. But no way schools could demand this from students today

A typical 12 hour work day as a student of Harvey Dunn,( if you were accepted)... a landscape before breakfast, then a still life study, in the afternoon a figure study out doors, then a sunset.

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Pages for Egmont from a Secret Agent Corrigan story 20 years ago 1/2

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Scott Dutton to a commission I did and made this mock cover.

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