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Super Kawaii

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I enjoyed doing something a little different last Saturday, so here we go again. A lot of times the ideas that really grab hold of me are the incongruous ones that shouldn’t really work. That’s a big part of why I wrote a book about a dwarf girl who was turned into a Valkyrie. I know Dwarves were not mentioned serving as Valkyries in the sagas, but the contrasting mental imagery of a 15 year old Dwarven girl having to deal with all of these stauesque, Nordic women was too hard to resist.

Which brings us to this week’s picture: Galactus, Devourer of Worlds! What do you do with one of the most powerful entities in the Marvel Universe, a giant alien who eats worlds – make him all cutesy! I love Jack Kirby‘s design work, his aliens, especially, have a sense of grandeur about them. So it was a lot of fun to pull off this week’s interpretation of one of his classic designs.

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Super Kawaii

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Here is a little bonus artwork for the week. I’ve been sticking with the Norse-themed stuff for the most part but this doodle really wanted to be made. From past experience I know that you just have to roll with the muse sometimes and get these things out of your head and out onto paper if you want to get anything else done. So here she is – Supergirl.

I have had a longtime love of comic books from back in the days when my mom would walk me down to the corner store so I could buy a comic with my allowance. I don’t read as much mainstream stuff these days, preferring different indies for the most part. But not too long ago I bought my son a copy of Art Baltazar’s Tiny Titans and loved it. I’ve also been enjoying the Super Best Friends Forever animated shorts done by Lauren Faust for Cartoon Network. If you would like to see more comic character artwork let me know.

Posted by Mark Neumayer