The Most In-Your-Face Hero of All ... Spread Eagle!

Part two: More pencils and inks, this time all-new growth from April 2014, as I round out the story from a sketchbook fragment from 2003 (see previous post). Notice the little pieces of tape!

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The Spectacle of ... Spread Eagle!

From a 2003 sketchbook comes perhaps the most Bizarre Hero of all ... Spread Eagle! Below, the original sketchbook sheet and blow-ups lettered and inked in April 2014.

The original sketchbook sheet from 2003. In this same sketchbook are roughs for Al Franken's Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right as well as the Megaton Man Sept. 11 storyline.

Top: the original sketch with blue and graphite pencil additions. Bottom: the inked final.

Left to Right: The blown up sketch; a refined tracing on clear tracing paper; the inked final on Clearprint.

Left: blown up sketch with lettering additions on scrap bond paper. Right: inked final.

Left: blown up sketch with lettering additions on scrap bond paper. Right: inked final.

Top: blown up sketch with lettering additions on scrap bond and tracing paper. Bottom: flag rough next to the inked final.

Inked figure and tracing refinement for the mock cover.

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