Wonder Woman vs The Rockets - Original Comic Art

When I was six years old, the first comic book I read was Wonder Woman, and she's been my hero ever since. Beautiful, intelligent, and strong, she represented all the physical, intellectual, and moral ideals one could achieve. It also didn't hurt that, with her long dark hair and blue eyes, I had a role model that actually looked like me, as opposed to those blonde, princess-y types who supposedly epitomized loveliness, like Barbie. I imagine the little red-haired girls adored Batgirl in much the same vein.

Being of an artistic nature, I drew a lot, and one of my favorite subjects was Wonder Woman. Here I have used pen and ink and art markers on bristol board to depict her in a race against time, readying her unbreakable golden lasso to try to rope some hostile ordnance that has been launched against innocent targets. She has super-speed and strength, but it seems her work is cut out for her. Will she stop the malicious missiles in time? Well, of course--she's Wonder Woman!

More of my comic art:
http://allsortsartbyali.blogspot.com/2016/04/original-comic-art-silver-age-wonder.html
http://allsortsartbyali.blogspot.com/2015/05/superman-batman-superbat.html
http://allsortsartbyali.blogspot.com/2015/03/batgirl-wonder-woman-wonder-bat.html
http://allsortsartbyali.blogspot.com/2014/12/a-portrait-of-cheetah-wonder-womans.html

The character of Wonder Woman is (c) DC Comics, Inc. 


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Original Comic Art - Silver Age Wonder Woman

I figured it's time to do another art post, so I went looking in my picture folder and found this drawing of Wonder Woman. She's always been my favorite superhero and obviously one I enjoy drawing. Her costume has had a few redesigns over the years (we won't talk about the leather jacket---harrrumph), and this outfit is from the "silver age" (50s and 60s).

When Princess Diana was originally introduced to the world, she wore a star-spangled skirt, but it was quickly replaced by a pair of long shorts more befitting her rather active lifestyle of leaping tall buildings and chasing after bad guys. That was still in the golden age, though. In the silver age, a lot of "origin" stories came out--besides a retelling of how Wonder Woman came to our world and decided to fight crime, there were even stories of how she earned the different parts of her costume, such as the eagle, the stars, etc.

I think it might have been this return to her mythological roots that led to a redesign of her footwear, which had been high-heeled boots. They were replaced by sandals with long laces that criss-crossed her lower legs and seemed more Greco-Roman (despite being bright red). She also still had the tiara that encircled her whole head; the next redesign would see that tiara become an arc rather than a circlet, so it could go under her luxuriant hair instead of holding it down. Also so she could use it--as a boomerang!


Another example of my original comic art: http://allsortsartbyali.blogspot.com/2014/12/a-portrait-of-cheetah-wonder-womans.html

Image is my original artwork. The character of Wonder Woman is (c) DC Comics, Inc.

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Superman + Batman = SuperBat!

Another entry in my "Hybrid Heroes" line is SuperBat, whom I got from combining the DC superhero favorites Superman and Batman. As you can see, I have combined Superman's red cape (with scalloped "batwing" edge, a la Batman) and blue bodysuit with Batman's black spiky-looking gloves, black undies-on-the-outside (as opposed to Superman's red undies-on-the-outside), yellow utility belt (as opposed to Superman's plain yellow belt) and the famous batsignal. As well as the cape and the chest logo, the boots are a true amalgam, being Batman-black but with the Superman design at the top. Last but not least is the bat-eared mask, which I decided to use instead of the cowl so I could show the distinctive curl-on-the-forehead 'do of Kal-El (although Bruce Wayne has similar hair)!

SuperBat can fly, of course, and can use his super-hearing for echolocation. Not only is he invulnerable to bullets, he is also a skilled martial artist and has amazing powers of deduction. He belongs to the Hybrid League with Bat Canary, who we met earlier: http://allsortsartbyali.blogspot.com/2015/01/batgirl-black-canary-bat-canary.html and with Wonder Bat, a more recent addition: http://allsortsartbyali.blogspot.com/2015/03/batgirl-wonder-woman-wonder-bat.html . Things are pretty batty in the Hybrid League!

Picture is my original artwork; mixed media on bristol board. Superman and Batman are trademarked characters of DC Comics, Inc, but SuperBat is my own invention. Click on the image for more detail!

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Batgirl + Wonder Woman = Wonder Bat

You may recall my last Hybrid Hero, Bat Canary, an amalgam of Batgirl and Black Canary, who was once my avatar and namesake for online writing. If you missed that post, you can see it here http://allsortsartbyali.blogspot.com/2015/01/batgirl-black-canary-bat-canary.html .

Today, we have a new character, shown here from a sketchbook page. I really should get her worked up into finished art as I have with Bat Canary, but the pencil version of her looks pretty good, I think, especially because her outfit has a lot of grey in it, anyway. Click on the picture to enlarge for best detail!

May I present Wonder Bat, a princess of Themiscyra who came to man's world and set up a secret identity as Diana Gordon, the police commissioner's daughter. Her Batplane is invisible and her Batarang is attached to the Golden Lasso of Truth. Her sleek grey bodysuit features a golden belt, stars, and bat-shaped breastplate, and she wears a golden batmask and wristlets.

I will probably make her dark-haired, like Wonder Woman, but if you like, you can also imagine her as a redhead, like Batgirl. In any case, thanks for checking out my work, and I hope you enjoyed it!

For a more traditional version of Wonder Woman, please see my artwork here:
 http://www.personapaper.com/article/8707-wonder-woman-vs-the-rockets---original-comic-art

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Batgirl + Black Canary = Bat Canary

This is an original comic art illustration I did in my line of "Hybrid Heroes", in which I take two different superheroes and mash them together. I am a big fan of DC Comics, and those of you who are also familiar with the characters will recognize the blue, bat-eared cape, gold utility belt, Batarang and distinctive boots of the classic, Barbara-Gordon-era Batgirl, combined with the leather jacket, bustier-topped bodysuit, fishnets and blonde hair of DC's Black Canary, although I made Black Canary's bodysuit "Batgirl grey", and I incorporated Black Canary's choker necklace into Batgirl's cape (it's all about details!). These two superheroes combine to make none other than--Bat Canary!

Bat Canary uses a sonic cry not only to disable opponents, but also for echolocation! She rides a motorcycle, of course, and with both a cape AND a leather jacket, she never gets cold in those fishnets! I liked this character so much, I used my illustration as an avatar and wrote under the name Bat Canary for a while, until I had to get a little more serious and go with a more realistic byline.

For more of my comic art, click here: http://allsortsartbyali.blogspot.com/2014/12/a-portrait-of-cheetah-wonder-womans.html 
and here: http://personapaper.com/article/12530-original-comic-art---silver-age-wonder-woman

Artwork is my original, colored ink and colored pencil on bristol board. Batgirl and Black Canary characters are copyright DC Comics, Inc, but Bat Canary is all me :) Click to enlarge!

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A Portrait of The Cheetah, Wonder Woman's Fierce Enemy

Readers young and old of the DC Comics book Wonder Woman will know that The Cheetah has been one of Wonder Woman's greatest foes, spanning her entire career as a comics super heroine, which started in the 1940s during World War Two. The original Cheetah from that era was a wealthy, beautiful blonde socialite named Priscilla Rich who suffered from a mental disorder that made her turn evil when she was stressed. She would become The Cheetah, and she was an implacable foe.

Quite some time passed before another Cheetah appeared on the scene, but in 1987, a character named Debi Domaine appeared. Debi, who had long brunette hair, as opposed to the marcel-waved golden locks of Priscilla, was actually Priscilla's niece. Debi was a good person who was an active volunteer for green causes, and she originally meant Wonder Woman no harm. However, she was captured by Cobra, another major villain in the Wonder Woman books, and tortured until she was literally driven mad. Cobra unleashed her on the world, where she started performing acts of "environmental terrorism" that hurt people whom she felt were ruining the planet. She fell afoul of Wonder Woman, who understood her love for the Earth but who could not condone her practices.

Like Priscilla's character before her, Debi was actually quite a tragic figure. A good person at heart, she was driven by her madness to commit crimes that would appall her "normal" self. I have rendered Debi in her full Cheetah regalia, looking very snarly and kinda sexy (DC gleefully lowered the neckline of the Cheetah costume, even though the original showed plenty of cleavage) in mixed media (marker and colored pencil) on bristol board.. Enjoy!

Artwork is my original work. Click to enlarge!
For more examples of my original comic art, go here:  http://allsortsartbyali.blogspot.com/2015/01/batgirl-black-canary-bat-canary.html
and here: https://allsortsartbyali.blogspot.com/2016/04/original-comic-art-silver-age-wonder.html

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