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TRDL - Dakota North

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Title:	TRDL - Dakota North
Artist:	thom chiaramonte (All)
Media Type:	Mixed Media
Art Type:	Pin Up
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	429
Likes on CAF:	0 1
Comments:	2
Added to Site:	8/15/2011
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TRDL 2011 Series, No. 68 – Dakota North
Third Rail Thrills No. 66
This piece was done for the Dakota North jam on the TRDL R3 Forum and TRDL-R3-WeeklyJam group on dA.
I have these fond boyhood memories of Dakota North. I didn’t understand the questionable mimicry of Ms. Tree or the way the femme fatale AS private eye would be capable of so much more in the years to come. Sure, she was half model, half gun-toting investigating adventurer, but at a time when all of my comics from Marvel were spandex or toy licenses like Micronauts or what have you, it was a refreshing change, right down to the pop art covers. When I looked back to some of those references for this jam, I was startled at how dated they looked, how unlike my mental image of that material. It’s funny how we rewrite memory. Anyway, my modern appreciation for the character comes from Brubaker and Rucka’s Daredevil run, and so that’s the homage in the piece I put together.

Process notes here:
http://www.thirdraildesignlab.com/blog/2011/08/15/third-rail-thrills-no-66-dakota-north/

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	thom chiaramonte
Joined:	November 2005
Last Login:	June 2015
Ebay Id:	thirdraildesignlab
Website:	http://www.thirdraildesignlab.com
Country:	UNITED STATES
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James Henry
Member Since 2005

Posted on 8/15/2011

Awesome Dakota North piece! It's good to see a fellow nostalgic fan keeping the faith! You can check out my CAF gallery if you want to see the original art to that pinup of Dakota North from Marvel Age.

thom chiaramonte
Member Since 2005

Posted on 8/16/2011

James Henry wrote:

EXCELLENT! Looking at the clothing morphologies in that piece makes me want to do yet another Dakota, but the 80s version, not the more recent long-haired one. That sharp haircut!

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