Geoff Darrow Tribute Commission

Where to begin? I met Nick on line and we have very similar tastes in artist. By tastes, I mean I appreciate their style and Nick as an artist has learned from these greats and his style emulates some of their features. Among these is shared interest in Geoff Darrow, Seth Fisher, Moebius, Quitely and a few other you may not be as familiar with like Timothy Green and Nathan Fox. When a chance came up to get something really bid from Nick, we had just finished a long email discussion about Darrow and it seemed like the perfect idea. The idea was to have Godzilla and King Kong attacking New York and Tokyo with the two cities blending into one and to incorporate Darrow characters through out. Nick went over the top on it. The detail is amazing in this piece and it is a full Double Page Splash so you can imagine the injustice the scan is doing to this piece.

Here are a few of the Details in the tribute. (from Nick's Email)

Starting top left...the character who's coming out of the building is the first character you see in hardboiled...the slogan on the opposite side of the same building just says darrow for ever (D,->, four fingers, ever) in the classic darrow sign advertisement style. The next building is the building from which the giant monster/dinasaur from big guy and rusty bust out of/is created in...the next building is the willeford building from hard boiled (they build cyborgs or something(its been awhile scince I've read it). The next building is the all you can eat seafood advertisement....the next is the seth fisher advertisement (it reads "Keep Fishing"he has a fishing reel in hand with a fish hanging out in front.Then the classic darrow pep boys advertisement...only now its the rapping badguys from shaolin cowboy issues 3/4. Kong and Godzilla are in the middle ground...both in the process of crumbling a building(look close in the crumbling rubble and see hundreds of bodies falling amongst the debris).The middle building has bigguys battle ship in a advertisement. One top of that same building...you see a small house size building...if you look real real close...you'll see "monkey boy jeff" spray painted on the side of it.going to the forground...you have the donkey...i refrenced the saddle to best of my ability (from shots darrow used in the book) I left out some of the detail on the donkey so he wouldn't blend in with kong. then you got big guy and rusty (I love them both)....then shaolin...then nixon from hardboiled further to the right. the building under nixon is covered in mutated monsters attacking people...in refrence to the mutated monsters that attacked the innocent bystanders in big guy and rusty....you can also see the car that runs over nixon at the begginning of hardboiled(its built into the building...and facing you(on the same building) The most devestating badguy of all time...the dinosaur from big guy and rusty (now holding a cola can...just an advertisement).....the building next to that building(moving left) is just a basic building with doohickies on the ruff(darrow uses that box advertisement allot as well,but mines still blank for now).the next building on the left is just a standard building with junk on top....oh yeah...i tried to put waldo ...of where's waldo fame,inside the donkeys horse shoe...but the it was so small that its hard to read....i got about five opened advertisements to filll in...i'm thinking of doing random characters that darrow has illustrated. oh yeah I forgot...on what little is left of kongs building(the one turned to rubble...you can see an adv. with the baby that just says "mine"....I'm sure theres more that i can't think of right now.....everything is darrow inspired....i had to throw the fisher ad. in there...he's got his chest hair shaved into a heart (like on his website).

The stuff Nick Added since then are Electricity Boy sign from Seth Fisher's Tokyo Pop, Moebius Bill Board (starwatcher), Matrix Billboard, Miller/Darrow Billboard and finally, the far right billboard with Quitely, Fisher, Moebius and Darrow's names together representing the main players in this new comic art style.