Another Monkees masterpiece (?) from my youth! Dig this 1977 drawing of "Mikey," Mike, Peter and Davy, as they charge up a hill in complete "foreign legion" garb! Copied from one of the famed 60s Dell MONKEES comic books, you can tell that the 11-year-old me had a long way to go, specifically when it came to capturing celebrity likenesses! Click below to enlarge!
Above: My 1977 drawing (part of a planned "portfolio?"), cribbed from a 1967 Dell MONKEES comic, the only one I owned at the time (along with a small smattering of Monkees LPs, 8-tracks, and other memorabilia)! I bought the comic from a used book and magazine shop, where I regularly gorged on back-issue superhero comics, and was thrilled to make this find! Who even knew there were Monkees comics? Note my wonky tracing of the logo, my oh-so-funny captions (swiped from daily afternoon reruns of the show), and the odd logo featuring silhouettes of the band! |
Above: The page from that same MONKEES comic book that inspired my pencilled piece! Art is thought to be by Jose Delbo! |
I love those old Monkees comic books. Wish they would put them out in a trade paperback and hopefully in color but I won't be greedy.
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