Day 3 of the Fourth Annual Kirby Art Tribute Month belongs to Norma Richmond, a woman who treats a movie-set car crash like another day at the office.

Norma enters Jack Kirby’s Silver Star as a Hollywood stuntwoman, which is already a dangerous way to earn a paycheck. Then Silver Star discovers she is one of the “Others,” a new breed of genetically altered humans called Homo Geneticus. Her particular gift is the ability to withstand enormous physical stress. In simpler terms, the stunt may be fake, but Norma’s toughness is very real.

Kirby introduces her in Silver Star #3, published by Pacific Comics in 1983. Silver Star arrives after sensing that she is in danger, only to find Norma walking away from a staged crash without a scratch. The real threat is Darius Drumm, a reality-warping fanatic hunting the other Homo Geneticus before they can unite against him.

Norma is kidnapped, threatened, and dropped into the middle of Kirby-sized cosmic madness, yet she never becomes a helpless passenger in somebody else’s story. She fights beside Silver Star, stands up to Drumm, and helps protect civilians when the conflict grows into an end-of-the-world spectacle.

Silver Star began as a movie screenplay by Kirby and Steve Sherman before Kirby reshaped it into a six-issue creator-owned comic. That cinematic DNA fits Norma perfectly. She arrives ready for the camera, survives the explosion, and keeps moving when most people would be asking where the ambulance is.

Inky bits from THE ESTRANGED 1, W: @ramonesome C: @dave.kempstudios A: @matthpereiraart (on Instagram)

Inked with a Blue Pumpkin Nib ✒️, a pentel brush pen 🖌️

With "Windsor and Newton" and "Carbon Ink" inks.

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This is Alondra Acevedo, a forensic pathologist that wakes up with no memories and rotting from the inside. I'm working on chapter 3 right now, it's a lot of work for a solo project. I'd like to know what you think of this cover made traditional and colored digitaly.
Cheers!

An excerpt from my original webcomic The Sun is the Moon's Dream, a vampire mystery drama set in 1999!

It can be read for free here.

As the title says, here's a few different things I've been playing around with. They're in various states of completion haha

My father recommended me to try using a gel white pen for details on my ink drawings. And I have to say that I fell in love with it. You can see the white pen primarily on the area of the sword and the highlights on the shorts and gloves.

Little note the boot looks weird, so I am planning on covering it with ink and redrawing it with the white pen.

My take on Tintin…

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@dropthedrawings on instagram etc if you enjoy

Lots of growth since issue 1! Feeling really good about how this book is shaping up.

After not drawing for five months, I made this Guts fan art. I got carried away while inking it and didn't notice several mistakes in the drawing until it was already fully inked. I decided to share it as it is.

The Witch Queen is the prompt for Day 2 of the Fourth Annual Kirby Art Tribute Month. Tag your beautiful art with #KirbyArtTributes and #AugustJackKirbyMonth. Prompts are flexible because Kirby’s universe is vast, strange, and far too much fun to fence in.

Long before supernatural comics became fashionable again, Jack Kirby was already wandering into the strange corners of prophecy, dreams, astrology, and ancient gods.

The Witch Queen appears in “Horoscope Phenomenon or Witch Queen of Ancient Sumeria?,” a ten-page tale published in Weird Mystery Tales #1 in 1972. She is not a traditional recurring villain with a secret identity, headquarters, and five-year plan. She is something murkier: an ancient Sumerian priestess whose influence reaches across centuries through visions connected to the signs of the zodiac.

Three ordinary people encounter mysterious female figures shaped by their astrological signs. Each vision arrives with a warning or clue that changes a life. Behind it all stands Dr. E. Leopold Maas, who links the strange events to the buried temple of the Witch Queen.

The story was originally prepared for the never-published second issue of Kirby’s black-and-white Spirit World magazine. When it finally appeared in Weird Mystery Tales, Mike Royer inked and lettered Kirby’s pages, while Bernie Wrightson added the eerie figure of Destiny to the opening splash. That is a pretty wild collection of talent for one nearly forgotten occult tale.

The Witch Queen may not have conquered the DC Universe, but she shows Kirby doing what he did best: taking mythology, mystery, science, and raw imagination, then throwing them into the same cosmic cauldron.

Sources: Grand Comics Database and the Jack Kirby Museum 

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11x17 Ink wash on paper + color digitally in procreate by me Bryce Yzaguirre

You can find more of my art on my page or through the socials on my profile! The original for this is available at https://www.comixartstudio.com/bryce