Not gonna get that mask on over all that hair...

So today's topic was the amazing Spider-Man.

I received an e-mail from Tim Hamilton, who, in a blatant attempt at pandering to me, suggested that I could get away with drawing one of my favorite characters, the spectacular Spider-Woman, this despite the fact we had a day dedicated to drawing her, like, two weeks ago.

Well, as it turns out, I respond to pandering.

Here's my drawing of Jessica Drew, the Spider-Woman, trying on the costume of her much more famous male counterpart.

A day late: Spider-Woman, to Know her is to Fear Her

Owing to a truly manic Tuesday, I'm a day late in getting up this drawing of one of my all-time favorite characters, Jessica Drew, the original Spider-Woman.

I know that she's been restored to her former prominence in Marvel Comics through the work of Brian Michael Bendis, but, man, I was digging on her way back before it was all cool to do so, as evidenced by these circa 1995 Spider-Woman samples I did. What was I thinking drawing Spider-Woman in 1995? I should have been drawing Youngblood or Bloodspot or Bloodblood or some sort of crap.

Anyway, here's to Spider-Woman, an odd duck of a character with an amazing design, whose odd duck of a series has many, many cool and weird happenings in it, as well as some great artwork by Carmine Infantino and Steve Leialoha, among others. Check it out!

The Cover of SpiderWoman #17

I have a great deal of sentimental attachement to the Marvel Comics character 'SpiderWoman'.  I had very few Marvel comics growing up , mostly it was british stuff like 2000AD, but I somehow had a copy of SpiderWoman #17. It was drawn by the great Carmine Infantino, who could somehow draw women by composing a series of ellipses and then by virtue of his incredibly dynamic inkline make them  bouyantly real...or even better than real. This made an impression on my young male mind.
#17 had a cover that I'm sure Infantino pencilled , then it was heavily inked by Joseph Rubinstein. The forced perspective was intense and I spent a long time analysing and trying to copy that cover. I learned a lot from it. So here I'm doing it again.

Spider Woman!

Good to know Spider woman starts her day the same way I do - with the junior jumble

The Mysterious Spider Woman