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The Dark Knight by Tone Rodriguez

Artist: Tone Rodriguez (All)

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Title:	The Dark Knight by Tone Rodriguez
Artist:	Tone Rodriguez (All)
Media Type:	Mixed Media
Art Type:	Convention Sketch
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	414
Likes on CAF:	2 3
Comments:	2
Added to Site:	9/3/2022
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I haven't see a lot of Tone Rodriguez's work, but I was anxious to meet him because I wanted his autograph in my copy of The Stan Sakai Project. That book is a tribute to 30 years of Stan Sakai's character Usagi Yojimbo and his medieval Japan world. It was also a fund raiser to support Stan's efforts to care for his wife when she was dying of brain cancer. It succeeded wonderfully at both.

There are 265 artists featured in the book and I'm trying to get all of their signatures. I'm at 95 and they are harder and harder to get. When I saw that Tone was appearing at Eastern Rim Funny Book and Vintage Con in Baytown, TX a mere 45 miles from my house, I knew I was going.

It turned out to be a really fun show and admission was free. If you are interested, you can read about it here.

Anyway, as I was saying before I distracted myself, I really was unfamiliar with Tone's work. So, I did a little reading and he's been quite busy. When I got to the show I discovered that he's both talented and friendly. I really enjoyed talking to him. In a different post, I'll show what he did in my book, but this is about this piece of art.

After talking to Tone, I decided I wanted him to add to my "Artist's Choice" sketchbook. I reserve it for folks from whom I'm unlikely to get a commission (usually due to no ideas or their schedules). They get a page in the book to draw whatever they want, but they have to write on the back of the page WHY they drew what they drew. I wanted to see what he would draw and why because he's an interesting guy.

It turns out he's a huge fan of The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller. The result can be seen here. It's a really good representation of the DKR Batman.

Tone wrote, "I love Batman... But I adore the Dark Knight by Frank "Fuckin" Miller." I think that's pretty obvious from the image.

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Marcus Wai
Member Since 2005

1 - Posted on 9/3/2022

The sketchbook piece is great and Rodriguez uses touches of the Miller style.

Timothy Guerrero
Member Since 2009

1 - Posted on 9/3/2022

Tony is a wonderful person! When we met him in LA and he heard we had come from El Salvador for the con he graciously did 2 sketches on our sketchbook. Congrats ofr an awesome piece of art from him.

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