I'm a writer. I read a lot of comics. My friend Jojo is an artist. She doesn't read any comics.

At lunch, she draws super heroes from memory. Her memory is not always very good.

As you look at these drawings, I can not stress enough that Jojo is a professional artist, and a full grown woman. It's important to remember that.

~ Monday, December 19 ~
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Today Jojo draws Mr. Fantastic! It was recently brought to our attention that Jojo hasn’t drawn the Fantastic Four yet. I apologize for this oversight. My idea is to do the FF the way we did Doctor Who, where I just tell Jojo, “Draw a member of the Fantastic Four” until she’s got four of them (rather than give her hints by telling her their names). She handed me this drawing and said, “I drew a stretchy guy. There’s a stretchy guy, right?” Yes there is Jojo and his name is Reed Richards, Mr. Fantastic. She got his costume just about right, the gloves and boots should be white or black, it should be white around the 4 symbol, and Reed doesn’t wear a mask of any kind. The best part of this is that she gave him skinny stretchy limbs, but a lumpy potato-filled body. Jojo knows you can’t tell he’s a super hero if he doesn’t have lumpy potato muscles.

Today Jojo draws Mr. Fantastic!

It was recently brought to our attention that Jojo hasn’t drawn the Fantastic Four yet. I apologize for this oversight. My idea is to do the FF the way we did Doctor Who, where I just tell Jojo, “Draw a member of the Fantastic Four” until she’s got four of them (rather than give her hints by telling her their names).

She handed me this drawing and said, “I drew a stretchy guy. There’s a stretchy guy, right?” Yes there is Jojo and his name is Reed Richards, Mr. Fantastic. She got his costume just about right, the gloves and boots should be white or black, it should be white around the 4 symbol, and Reed doesn’t wear a mask of any kind.

The best part of this is that she gave him skinny stretchy limbs, but a lumpy potato-filled body. Jojo knows you can’t tell he’s a super hero if he doesn’t have lumpy potato muscles.

Tags: comics fantastic four mr. fantastic reed richards ff future foundation marvel
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