Dan Hipp ~ Liz Sherman commission

(Purchased via 'mrhipp.blogspot.com', June 2010)

For comic art or just the quality of all things cool, Dan Hipp will be raising the stakes, it seems to me. Residing in California, but he also has a blog, luckily. Mr Hipp's rendered envisionings seem not only aptly conscrewed, both as strikingly astute, they also appear to be revealing great creative joy, unmistakably.

His art on signature comic titles, such as the Amazing Joy Buzzards (Image) and Gyakushu! (Tokoypop), offer but awe and gleam in my view, lacking no kind of luster. Or take his commission pieces such as this one.

Of Liz Sherman, the breath-taking pyrokinetic agent for Mike Mignola's BPRD. Her bit of line is from a song of Dave Pajo (a rock star), entitled "It's You That Burns", which I requested mr Hipp to be using (of which the chorus goes 'In the fire / the world looks like it's up in flames / but it's you that burns').

I love how Liz's hair (obviously red) is flying aflutter or 'wavey-drapering' in the blazes, like licking flames itself almost - as such as if for proudly hinting at both the movie as the comic hairstyle. To be sure you may wanna check out mr Hipp's colored version of this put up at his blog.

Note how the piece is signed "H" in the lower left corner, with an added skull plus a dedication, having the skull be not a numb one. Skulls - numb or not - are since forever in art, said to be meaning 'Carpe Diem', which will be saying 'Seize The Day' the old way.

Even for me, knowing all or any of mr Dan Hipp's stuff to being out there, things like designer fruits or black market booze, begin to look awefully steep or dire to covet.
Likely I might play high-stakes poker, or get some sandy wrinkled elephant buttock tattoo, best not èver again...

Although on poker I must confess to play solely for peanuts anyway, which in large amounts'll just be giving me the skittles. Between tattoos and comics, the latter will be reading more easily significantly, for me personally at least. Call me egotistical, but for me comic art as a hobby, will be much about treating yourself. For which stuff like mr Hipp's will be suiting me just fine.

[pencil and ink on A4 Strathmore Bristol]