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“Reimagined Marvel Pop Art Cover Box: Captain America” (2020)

Artists: Shanna Layton (Colorist) , Bob Layton (All)

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Title:	“Reimagined Marvel Pop Art Cover Box: Captain America” (2020)
Artist:	Shanna Layton (Colorist)
Artist:	Bob Layton (All)
Media Type:	Mixed Media
Art Type:	Illustration
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	1,956
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Comments:	4
Added to Site:	7/4/2020
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“Reimagined Marvel Pop Art Cover Box: Captain America” (2020)
by Bob Layton (1953-); colors by Shanna Layton
11 x 17, ink and watercolor on board (outline printed)

Layton started working in comics in the 1970s, famously headlining a run on Iron Man that introduced Stark’s alcoholism, Bethany Cabe, James Rhodes, and Justin Hammer. He wrote the revival of the original X-Men as X-Factor after Jean Grey’s return, and he was an architect for the Valiant Comics universe (and the company behind it).

He enjoys doing commissions, and I had thought for a while what I would want him to do for me. As a child of the 60s, I was squarely in the crosshairs of classic Marvel Comics as the phenomenon grew. Looking for the iconic corner boxes for any new issues splayed out in a wooden magazine rack at my hometown’s newsstand and variety store was a staple of my youth.

Marvel went through about a 4-month period (Sept-Dec 1965), where Stan Lee thought it was a good idea to grab the zeitgeist of the era and re-christened the name from “Marvel Comics Group” to “Marvel Pop-Art Productions.” There was a backlash and you have this memorably short run of issues with that logo.

So, here is my homage to those four months. Four reimagined corner boxes featuring Captain America, Iron Man, Hulk, and Sub-Mariner (four of the five who made up the famously done cartoons in 1966… sorry, Thor… and the headliners from Tales of Suspense and Tales to Astonish. It’s fun to have these usually small objects filling the space on a page. I selected the figures for Bob to put into his style and I wanted the figures breaching those boxes so that they were not so hemmed in, compositionally. The “Pop Art” letters were rarely colored in during those 4 months, but for these, it helps pull the vertical all the way up the page.

For Captain America, I picked the issue number and month of his re-appearance in the Avengers (4 MAR). The image is from the Kirby cover.

Posted July 4, 2020.

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Rick W
Member Since 2017

Posted on 7/4/2020

These are way cool Brian! Layton is the man.

Happy 4th of July!

Brian Coppola
Member Since 2009

Posted on 7/4/2020

Rick W wrote:

These are way cool Brian! Layton is the man.

Happy 4th of July!

Thanks, Rick. These were super-fun to work on and Bob was absolutely terrific, responsive, creative, and so on. Nothing but a pleasure.

Aidan (Re-Legion ) Lacy
Member Since 2005

Posted on 7/5/2020

I love commissions that have cool art and a nice back story, this has both

Brian Coppola
Member Since 2009

Posted on 7/5/2020

Aidan (Re-Legion ) Lacy wrote:

I love commissions that have cool art and a nice back story, this has both

Thanks, Aiden.

I've never embraced the backlash that "Pop Art" faced (and still faces) from the oh-so-serious critics. I find it ironic that their criticisms today are now most often levied on their (unedited and unreviewed) blogs and other social media, which one can indict with the same accusations of "transient commentary that anyone can do" as have been made about Warhol, et al. Using one form of Pop Art to criticize another.

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