NUMBER 5 THE “HOW-TO” MAGAZINE ON COMICS AND CARTOONING $5. 95 WINTER IN THE U.S.A. 2003 G N I M E O E K I M D N A S I D N E B N A I R B 3 0 0 2 © D N A M T S I S R E W O P AN INTERVIEW WITH MIKE WIERINGO BUILDING POWERS BY BENDIS, OEMING AND THE POWERS CREW DRAWING HANDS BY BRET BLEVINS DESIGN—THE DEPTH ILLUSION BY PAUL RIVOCHE THE MUST HAVE ART BOOKS FOR YOUR STUDIO BY TERRY BEATTY THIS ISSUE CONTAINS NUDITY FOR THE PURPOSE OF FIGURE DRAWING. INTENDED FOR MATURE READERS. THE PROFESSIONAL “HOW-TO” MAGAZINE ON COMICS & CARTOONING NOW ON-LINE AT: http://www.drawmagazine.com WINTER 2003 • VOL. 1, NO. 5 Editor & Designer • Michael Manley Publisher • John Morrow Logo Design • John Costanza Front Cover Illustration • Mike Oeming Proofreader • Eric Nolen-Weathington FEATURES PENCILING A FANTASTIC INTERVIEW WITH CURRENT FANTASTIC FOUR PENCILER MIKE WIERINGO . 3 DESIGN DESIGNING FOR DEPTH BY PAUL RIVOCHE . 26 BUILDING POWERS A STEP-BY-STEP DEMO BY THE POWERS CREATIVE TEAM . 41 HITTING THE BOOKS REVIEWS OF VINTAGE ART BOOKS TO HAVE IN YOUR COLLECTION BY TERRY BEATTY . 54 FIGURE DRAWING DRAWING HANDS BY BRET BLEVINS . 69 LETTERS COMMENTS FROM READERS ON OUR FOURTH ISSUE . 82 SUBSCRIBE TO DRAW! Four quarterly issues for $20 US Standard Mail, $32 US First Class Mail ($40 Canada, Elsewhere: $44 Surface, $60 Airmail). 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X is TM and ©2003 Vortex Comics.• Tarzan is TM and ©2003 The Edgar Rice Burroughs Estate • Tellos TM and ©2003 Todd Dezago and Mike Wieringo • This entire issue is ©2003 Action Planet Inc. and TwoMorrows Publishing and may not be reprinted or retransmitted without written permission of the copyright holders. Printed in Canada. FIRST PRINTING. FROM THE EDITOR We’re here, we’re here, we’re here! DRAW! is back from our long hiatus. In the time since we last met I attended the 2002 San Diego Comic Con and had a blast. It was great to meet so many of you DRAW! readers there who stopped by our booth to chat s n i with Bret and myself. The drawing demonstration that Bret and I gave was filled to the v e l rafters, which was a great surprise and lots of fun. I just let Bret do all the talking and B t e most of the drawing. r B The biggest news this time around is the official launch of DRAWMAGAZINE.COM! y b That’s right, DRAW! will now have an official online home, where you can surf in to n o i find the latest news and updates, back issues and links, peruse and post on our message t a t board, view our online tutorials on drawing, inking and more. You’ll also be able to get e r p in touch with regular DRAW! contributors Bret Blevins and Paul Rivoche as well as r e t Ande Parks. I also want to thank you all for your patience and support as we work to n i e get the magazine v i t back on track a r u schedule-wise. g i F Look for on-time quarterly shipping from now on! Once again a big thanks goes out to my regular contributors Paul and Bret for another series of great articles and making this job easi - er. I’d also like to thank the Powers team, (Brian, Mike, Ken, and Pete) for giving us a cool cover and a glimpse behind their working process on one of the most popular comics being published today. A big tip of the hat to Terry Beatty for his great and informative article on art and illustration books that all artists should try and acquire for their bookshelf (watch those eBay auctions fly), Mike Wieringo for opening his files and supplying ample copies of his amazing work and sketches (more than I was able to print unfortu - nately). So enjoy this issue, then surf onto our new website and drop us an e-mail, and look for DRAW! #6 to show up with the Easter Bunny in April. 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C A R A DRAW! editor Mike H C L E V Manley conducted R A M this interview over 3 0 0 2 the internet and by © D phone with the N A M T easy-going, busy R U O artist from his F C I T S Artamus Studio in A T N A Hillsborough, F E H T North Carolina. WIERINGO: This is a panel from FF #61 where Ben is on the track of someone who played a practical joke on him. It was fun to show the public’s reaction to this lumbering monster running down the street. I tried to give the guy in the foreground a Sam Jackson-kind-of look. DRAW!: Let’s begin with a brief bio. Give me the specifics. WIERINGO: Well, these were the books being bought by my Where were you born? Did anyone introduce you into comics? father in Germany that I’m talking about. This was when I was between 8 and 10 years old. I didn’t start buying my own comics WIERINGO: Well, I was born in Vicenza, Italy in 1963. My until I was 11 years old and back in the O.S. I wasn’t allowed to father was in the Army when I was born and that’s where he and go to the PX myself because there was a lot of drug dealing and my mother were stationed.We left not long after I was born, and violence going on, on base (if you can believe that... but it hap - we moved all over the place for years. We lived in New York pened). But I remember my dad telling me about the comics he state for a while, Virginia, over to Germany for three years and bought when he was a kid—things like Airboy, The Heap (a pre - then back to Virginia in the U.S. in 1974. I’ve been in the U.S. decessor to Swamp Thing ), Blackhawk as well as Superman and ever since. My dad was actually the one who introduced me to Batman .