You might remember back a few posts where I wrote about a blog called COVERED where they get different graphic artists to re-create classic comic book covers. One of the artists featured in that article was Ben Newman. After writing this piece I became more curious about what some of his other artwork looked like. So, I checked out his Art Gallery page & WOW! This guy does some extremely cool stuff & awhile back he even did a portrait of ADAM WEST for an article in "Dangerous Ink" Magazine ( which I think is in the UK ). The graphic is extremely cool! Ben admits that he's not really great at making a character look like an actual real-life person so to compensate he added a lot of things "around the character" that would remind people who he is. In Adam's case he put the Bat-Signal over Gotham City, the Joker, Batgirl, Batman & Robin climbing the side of a building, the 1966 Batmobile Car, and even the "Exploding Shark", ha ha...very clever! I love this picture & his other artwork is even just as awesome. he has a great cartoon-style! The name of his blog is BLOGOLIOLIO, you can check it out by clicking on this yellow word.
