Friday, June 25, 2010

Cosmic Kliti


Link Yaco who worked on this naughty Eros Comics one-shot with Gray reports that it was actually a modified version of an abandoned Zatanna story for DC!

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Dark Tomorrow


The Groovy Agent shows some love for Gray by sharing DARK TOMORROW, a 1973 Gerry Conway story from Marvel's SAVAGE TALES that Morrow uses as a showcase for his mastery of various styles of black and white magazine illustration.

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Gray's Movie Posters # 4

Vampirella


Many artists have drawn Warren's sexy alien vampiress, Vampirella over the years. In fact, her design inherently lends itself to pinup art. Thus I was surprised to see that this Morrow sketch, presumably for a portfolio, fails, in my opinion, to capture the essence of Vampi or...to be honest...in being a good drawing. The hands are nicely drawn but other than that this is NOT one of my favorite Gray pieces.

Sunday, June 20, 2010

Presidential Perversion Comics

Gray Morrow took a lot of non-traditional assignments in his career as an illustrator and this may be one of the stranger ones. The lovingly detailed art that once delineated the historical life of Mrs. Roosevelt for children, here highlights a nighty NATIONAL LAMPOON historical parody from an early seventies issue of that legendary humor mag. Written by comic and writer Ed Bluestone, the lettering here is by our pal Alan Kupperberg who provided these scans! Thanx, Alan!








Thursday, June 17, 2010

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Al Williamson/Gray Morrow Flash Gordon




Many sites have run this image since Mr. Williamson's death this week but it seems too appropriate a piece to allow to pass here and I finally found a good scan. This collaborative piece was used as the front cover to one of the two FLASH GORDON-centric artzines that came out n the early seventies called HERITAGE. I believe this was the front cover to issue 1B.

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Gray Morrow by Al Williamson


Just as Gray sometimes incorporated the visages of his fellow artists and various actors and celebrities in his illustrations, so, too, dod Al Williamson who died this past weekend. Here, probably from a FLASH GORDON piece, is Gray as drawn by Al.

Sunday, June 13, 2010

Gray's Movie Posters # 1--Cinderella 2000


The wonderful artist Ronn Sutton has sent me a treasure trove of movie posters done by Gray Morrow, mostly for early seventies exploitation films. Starting today we'll share them on occasion.

Thursday, June 10, 2010

Heroes Portfolio



Not sure when this was released and I'm afraid I must apologize for the tiny pics but best I could find and too good not to run.

Monday, June 7, 2010

Dread of Night Ad


My favorite part of this mostly Morrow-drawn ad for the color collection of DREAD OF NIGHT is that it's in black and white. Hahahhahahahahaah!