Remembered Heroes

Today Jojo draws Tony Stark’s Mark 17 Armor! Jojo got...

Fri, 17 May 2013 19:00:00 -0400

Today Jojo draws Tony Stark’s Mark 17 Armor!

Jojo got unexpectedly busy but I’m still going to make her draw all the armors I can think of from Iron Man 3! There’s like, forty of them in the movie. How many will Jojo draw? Probably less than forty! LET’S GO!

The Mark 17 is called Heartbreaker. I couldn’t really tell what it’s specific deal was supposed to be so I told Jojo the name and told her to go nuts. And nuts she did go. She hit the general heart break theme pretty hard, and she made him pink and red, because hearts.

I just want to note that after she drew the Silver Centurion armor, I showed her a picture of what it’s supposed to look like. In fact, every time she’s drawn Iron Man, I have shown her what he’s supposed to look like.

And yet, there’s all these great mistakes she keeps making. She always gives him eyebrows and a nose. She also likes to give him what I can only assume are metal nipples.

As she was drawing this, she tried to remember what Iron Man’s helmet was supposed to look like, knowing she’d just seen it the day before. When she couldn’t, she actually turned to me and said, “I just saw it yesterday. Why can’t I remember it? What’s wrong with me?”

I don’t know Jojo, but I hope it never gets fixed.

Today Jojo draws Tony Stark’s Mark 33 Armor. Hey everyone,...

Tue, 14 May 2013 21:54:02 -0400

Today Jojo draws Tony Stark’s Mark 33 Armor.

Hey everyone, we’re back! So I saw Iron Man 3 (Jojo did not) and without spoiling anything, there are a lot of Iron Man suits in that movie! Like, so many!

So I thought it’d be fun to tell Jojo the names of the new armor, and what they’re designed for, and see what she comes up with. I’ll have her keep drawing armors until we run out or I get bored. LET’S GO!

The Mark 33 is a fun one because they’re calling it the Silver Centurion, and it’s based on ol’ Shell Head’s 80s armor from the comics. I told Jojo what it was called and that Tony wore it in the 80s. So how’d she do?

Well, she made it silver, that’s easy, and she gave it big 80s shoulder pads, which crazily enough is correct. She told me she was going to give the armor a mullet but when she showed it to me, it had crazy long hair instead.

Her explanation was that when she drew the mullet it wasn’t very noticeable so she kept making the hair longer so people could see it.

That’s the kind of bold choice I’ve come to expect from Jojo, who is, as I constantly feel the need to remind people, a successful professional artist.

Today Jojo draws a special St. Patrick’s Day comic...

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 19:25:05 -0400

Today Jojo draws a special St. Patrick’s Day comic starring Green Lantern!

Hey everyone, it’s me, Marly the writer! I’ve wanted to see Jojo draw this comic for a long time, but had to wait till St. Patrick’s Day… then we couldn’t wait and posted it early! Enjoy!

Jojo knows John Stewart better than Hal Jordan, but Hal seems like the heavier drinker, right? Well, I guess in Jojo’s mind Booster Gold is the heaviest drinker, becuase she drew him as a can of beer.

We’re hoping to post more comics in the future and we really are working on a book which will collect Jojo’s badly remembered heroes as well as have new comics like this one (but you know, new-er).

benjoseph: kellyqehudson: jesslane: iamachilles...

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 02:06:00 -0400

benjoseph:

kellyqehudson:

jesslane:

iamachilles:

UMMMM…. gettin’ hot in here… {gulp}

“JUST PUT THE BATHING SUITS ON BACKWARDS.”

Being a part of the wardrobe department on this show must have been a dream.

i have a theory about why people liked this show. it was probably the light, low white noise in the background, right? it’s pretty relaxing.

My friend jojoponyfarts, possessor of an awesome Tumblr name and not a Star Trek fan, turned this scene into a painting for a Star Trek art show:

She also gets drunk and draws clam vagina monsters, if that’s more your speed.

HEY GUYS! this is what i ended up painting for the star trek show! where any of you able to check it out?? check out all of the star treks!

kalikazoo: STAR TREK ART SHOW! At QPop in Little Tokyo Downtown...

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 14:36:37 -0500

kalikazoo:

STAR TREK ART SHOW! At QPop in Little Tokyo Downtown Los Angeles Saturday February 16th reception 7pm-10pm! Open through March 3!

There will be a costume contest with surprise guests! Grilled Cheese Truck will be replicating food!!!

Kelsy Abbott, Dave Abelson, Oliver Akuin, Aaron Alexovich, Patrick Awa, Nick Bachman, Jay Baker, Eric Bauza, Zach Bellissimo, Tara Billinger, Jessica Borutski, Pete Browngardt, Chikuwaemil, Myke Chilian, Joey Chou, Steven Chunn, Victor Courtright, Cheyenne Curtis, Matt Danner, Kevin Dart, Louie Del Carmen, Layron DeJarnette, Yok d’Holbachie, Becky Dreistadt, Brianne Drouhard, Kinoko Evans, Kali Fontecchio, Tiffany Ford, Kate Freund, Doug Gauthier, Jenny Goldberg, Ellis Goodson, Natalie Hall, Glenn Harmon, Thorsten Hasenkamm, Kassandra Heller, Alex Hirsch, Marty Ito, Robert Iza, Parker Jacobs, Lincoln Kamm, Seo Kim, John Kricfalusi, Jasmin Lai, Santino Lascano, Carrie Liao, Stuart Livingston, Frank Macchia, Pakoto, Tatsuro Maruyama, Ruriko Maruyama, Aki Morishima, Zoe Moss, Erin McGathy, Sam McKenzie, Scott Morse, Sho Murase, Ryan Nagata, Naoshi, Bryan Newton, Michelle Park, Jorsh Pena, Plasticgod, Deanna Rooney, Paul Rudish, Johnny Ryan, Phil Rynda, Chris Sasaki, Griselda Sastrawinata, Jeremy Sengly, Shawn Dickinson, Andy Suriano, Yukinao Takashima, Matt Taylor, Jack Teagle, Dan Bob Thompson, Lissa Treiman, Michal Wright Ward, Julia Vickerman AND EVEN MORE!!!!!

hey friends! im gonna art for a thing! will i remember enough from marly’s teachings and know the difference between a star trek and a star wars? maybe i’ll remember everything ever? come find out at the art thing!

hi internet! here’s a hawkeye thing! marly told me to base...

Sun, 23 Dec 2012 01:40:45 -0500

hi internet! here’s a hawkeye thing! marly told me to base it off this horrible thing. that was fun! the version i did before this one was based on my previous incarnation of hawkeye, when i showed it to marly he didn’t speak to me for the rest of the day. ENJOY!

also, i get asked a lot if i have my own blog, so here’s a gift for those who’ve asked!

hey internet! marly and i have been stupidly busy but luckily...

Wed, 14 Nov 2012 17:06:59 -0500

hey internet! marly and i have been stupidly busy but luckily i’m home sick today (yay?), so i have a moment to say hi. HI!

we did another comic for the devastator and some reviewer was all nice and stuff and liked our comic! so go find yourself a copy.

*sneeze*cough*

Rainbow babies save the day!

Fri, 24 Aug 2012 17:56:24 -0400

Rainbow babies save the day!

Lastie! the unicorn with the most regret.

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 22:03:24 -0400

Lastie! the unicorn with the most regret.

hey internet i just started watching this new show. its set in...

Wed, 22 Aug 2012 16:49:44 -0400

hey internet i just started watching this new show. its set in the 90s and this girl is killing all of the draculas.

Hey, it’s the ghostbusters! Isn’t this Igor or Eon...

Tue, 21 Aug 2012 16:05:53 -0400

Hey, it’s the ghostbusters! Isn’t this Igor or Eon or something?

Vacation!

Mon, 20 Aug 2012 16:16:01 -0400

Hey everyone,

I’m going to be out of town this week, which means I won’t be able to get drawings from Jojo. Since we did your requests, and my requests, this week Jojo is going to draw HER OWN requests.

That’s right, this week Jojo will draw whatever she wants and post it herself. With any luck, we’ll get more Kim Jong Il facts.

See ya all next week!

Today Jojo draws The Lizard. I wanted to see Jojo’s take...

Fri, 17 Aug 2012 20:45:52 -0400

Today Jojo draws The Lizard.

I wanted to see Jojo’s take on Spidey’s latest movie antagonist. I didn’t like how he looked in the movie and I was hoping Jojo could improve him.

SHE TOTALLY DID!

I told her he was a scientist who became a lizard-man, and even though there’s few ways to get that wrong, she’s surprised us before. This one is great though. I love how thoughtful he looks, and that he’s little fat. Perfect.

He should team up with Jojo’s (much less accurate) Doctor Octopus.

Today Jojo draws Bane! She’d already drawn Catwoman (and...

Wed, 15 Aug 2012 20:42:08 -0400

Today Jojo draws Bane!

She’d already drawn Catwoman (and done her own take on DC’s New 52 Catwoman) plus she redesigned Batman. So all that’s left is Bane and we’ve got the main characters of the latest Batman flick.

I asked her to draw Bane and she had no idea who I meant. I told her he’s from Dark Knight Rises and she said, “Is he the bad guy?” I knew she hadn’t seen the movie, but surely she saw some trailers, right?

I’m going to say that she only saw the billboards, because she seemed to only know what his head looked like. She said he’s supposed to be really scary, but she didn’t know how he dresses so she put him in a suit.

By dressing a super villain as a business man, It’s possible that Jojo is making a subtle connection between Bane and Bain, Mitt Romney’s former company. Either that or she put Bane’s head on the body of the Spider-Man/Daredevil villain, Kingpin.

Or the real answer: she just drew it for no reason.

Today Jojo draws Damian Wayne! I’ve wanted Jojo to draw...

Tue, 14 Aug 2012 21:17:00 -0400

Today Jojo draws Damian Wayne!

I’ve wanted Jojo to draw Damian, the most blood thirsty of all the Robins, for a long time. Well, now we finally get to see her take on the fifth Robin (fourth Robin if you’re Dan DiDio - SNAP)! This Robin also has the distinction of actually being Batman’s son, so that’s fun.

Anyway I told Jojo that he was younger than most Robins, and kind of a little dick. I think she tried to best to capture that. The color scheme is just about right, actually, and she gave him a scowl. She still gave him the haircut and mask of the animated Teen Titans Robin, but that’s the only one she knows.

All in all, Damian would approve of this. Well, no he wouldn’t. Damian approves of nothing.

Today Jojo draws Seven of Nine! A long time ago, Jojo drew some...

Mon, 13 Aug 2012 18:30:00 -0400

Today Jojo draws Seven of Nine!

A long time ago, Jojo drew some Star Trek characters, but I didn’t have time to ask her to draw everyone’s favorite unfortunately sexy Borg.

I asked her to draw Seven of Nine and Jojo responded, “What? What’s that name mean? Do, like, seven out of nine doctors say she’s good for your teeth?” I ignored the fact that Jojo was clearly thinking of dentists and told her to just draw a sexy Borg (I had some reason to think she knew what Borg were).

Well, I don’t know what I could have possibly expected, because this is obviously what I was going to get. Jojo said she made her all black “because Borg are all black” except for her red hair which was, “because all you comic nerds love red heads.”

Can’t argue with that logic. Well, I could but I choose not to!

See ya tomorrow, everyone.

Update!

Mon, 13 Aug 2012 14:07:33 -0400

Hello everyone!

So here’s the announcement I should have given a few weeks ago. When Jojo and I started doing this blog, a year ago now, we knew we couldn’t do it forever because at some point we’d start to run out of Super Heroes for Jojo to draw. We’d said at the time that we’d do it for a year and see how we felt then.

Plus, Jojo and I have started doing other comics projects together (last week Jojo was busy working on a new set of comics for The Devastator) and I don’t like hitting her with the”Draw Things Stick” more than once a day.

So here’s the plan: we’re going to keep doing super hero drawings but probably not every day. My plan is to do at least one a week, but we’ll see how it goes. But what we WILL do is (hopefully) finally set up personal tumblrs, so you can see other stuff Jojo’s been working on AND (definitely) put together a Remembered Heroes book, collecting the best of the last year’s drawings (plus some new stuff).

To summarize:

Bad news: less super hero drawings.

Good news: more other stuff. And a book.

To prove that “less” doesn’t mean “none” I am going to have Jojo do a bunch of drawings this week. We did your requests, now it’s time to do MY requests. This week I’m going to have Jojo draw stuff I kept meaning to ask her for all year and never got around to it.

Fun! For me! And hopefully you too!

You guys used to never miss a day, what happened? :(

Fri, 10 Aug 2012 20:38:07 -0400

That’s a good question, and deserves a good answer. I’ll have an update soon. (Although I only promise an answer, not necessarily a good one).

Today Jojo draws The Guardians of the Galaxy! This concludes our...

Fri, 03 Aug 2012 18:36:00 -0400

Today Jojo draws The Guardians of the Galaxy!

This concludes our one-year anniversary request week. The number one request we got was for The Guardians of the Galaxy, probably because Marvel just announced they’d be getting a movie in 2014.

I asked Jojo if she had any idea who they were (she didn’t) and told her “They live in space, their leader’s name is Star Lord… you already drew Rocket Raccoon.”

She stopped listening somewhere around “they live in space-” and went off to draw this. She clearly heard the word “guardians,” remembered the movie Legend of the Guardians:The Owls of Ga’Hoole and just went to town.

So here it is: giant owls with planets in their talons, as they shoot stars and vomit moons.

I don’t know about you, but I feel like the galaxy is now thoroughly guarded.

Today Jojo draws Rescue (Pepper Potts). Tumblr user sweetalissum...

Thu, 02 Aug 2012 21:06:21 -0400

Today Jojo draws Rescue (Pepper Potts).

Tumblr user sweetalissum said, “ I’d love to see Rescue! It feels fool-proof because it’s just Pepper Potts in her own Iron Man style suit but who know how Jojo will do it!”

Well now we know how: by drawing her version of Iron Man, and sticking big square boobs on it.

Boy are those square.