My First Comic Book
on May 16, 2018
I’ve always been fascinated by androids. Some of my favorite superheroes from my earliest days of comic book reading were the Vision, Robotman (Doom Patrol), the Red Tornado and the original Human Torch (it made sense to me that a robot could withstand all that heat without melting). So mechanical men were on my fourteen year old mind when I created Andrex, a synthetic man constructed to be sent to Mars on a rescue mission for a lost astronaut. Using markers and colored pencils on writing paper, I drew and colored a few pages of this tale, my first comic book work, which I’m posting here. You can see a lot of Red Tornado influence, down to the arrow on his forehead. Drawing comic books was the ultimate dream back in those days!
Love it, Mark, this is great! I really enjoy reading old stuff by creators, I think it’s the best.
Looking at this old work, I remember only vague patches of when I drew it. I recall how much fun it was to visualize this story, but I’m vague on all the details. Seeing the work again after so many years is a revelation. I feel slight traces of the joy my fourteen year old self felt when those blank lined pages were laying before me awaiting whatever my imagination wanted to put on them.
It’s neat to see your old stuff!
Thanks, Peter! I’d like to see more artist post some early work. It really gives a lot of perspective to where they are now.
This is wonderful Mark. Thanks for sharing it!
Would love to see these characters rendered in your current style!!! You should finish the story!!!
I never thought about that Clay, but it might be fun. It would be an interesting experiment, that’s for sure!