Ultimate Spidey Post

Consider if you will...

My Spider-man: The Clone Saga Director's Cut cover from 2009, blogged here and here.

And...

Promo art for the new Ultimate Spider-man cartoon, coming 2012

I'd say sincerest form of flattery, wouldn't you?

Of all the awesome people that have drawn Spider-man over all those many years, they base this very important image on my cover?

I remember stressing a lot while drawing this cover, trying to distill all of a lifetime of Spider-man impressions into that single iconic image.

If I can take away anything, it's maybe that I succeeded.

Spider-geddon!

Modern: Djurdevic styles!

 Hey, wow! A cover that matches the logo! It's the cover art to X-23 #13 featuring the luckiest character in the Marvel U, the Amazing Spider-man!

He's so lucky that New York is literally crumbling around him. Crumbling into tiny bits, all of which are getting sucked into that terrifying icon looming in the roiling orange sky! Roiling orange skies never portend good things. Lucky things he's lucky!

Classic: Ditko styles!

 There was some debate about what he should be wearing at this pivotal moment, and so I decided to hedge my bets and do both outfits. I am a huge fan of those swanky hex-tastic new FF costumes, but where foreshortening is concerned, you can't beat that webbing grid for really popping a limb!

Which grabs you guys more?

Lots and lots of bricks, and rocks, and window frames, and broken glass and...

Spider-man Black (and White)

By request (talking to you Cyberweasel) the lineart for my cover art to Spider-man: The Clone Saga #3.

I was never a big Spider-fan as a kid, but the Bendis/Immonen run on Ultimate Spider-Man turned me around completely on the character. So much so, that I had real jitters breaking this piece down, trying to come up with something iconic and appropriate but also a little bit different.

Spider-man Spider-man

...does whatever a spider can. Spins a web, any size. Catches thieves, just like pies.

How I thought the song went from age 4 to age 9.


This is the cover art to Spider-man: The Clone Saga #3. Yep, you heard right.