Mimi the Gun Mage

I met Ed at the first Hershey Comic Con in 2012, where he was sharing a table with CJ Henderson. Long story short I ended up spending most of my budget for the con at his table, and a few months later I commissioned two pieces from him, of which this is one.

Ed deviated from the template I had for my
gun mage commissions at that point, and I loved all his changes. He was the first artist to alter her hairstyle from a ponytail, and he redid her pistols from the original Art Deco ray gun design to a more modern style. I also liked how she’s holding the gun backwards in her left hand. The original design for the gun mage had somewhat ridiculous placement of guns and their holsters, which I suspect was a subtle nod to the fact that in combat gun mages get up to all sorts of tricks with their firearms, as well as acrobatics worthy of 1990s wire-fu from Hong Kong cinema.

I commissioned this before Clyde Caldwell did a redesign from the chaps in my original painting of Mimi to the jeans she’s had in every commission since. Maybe someday I can commission Ed again to depict her in jeans.