A long, long time ago…
I can still remember
How that music used to make me smile.
And I knew if I had my chance
That I could make those people dance
And, maybe, they’d be happy for a while.
lyrics from Don McLean’s American Pie
It’s amazing what you can find when you’re doing some cleaning around the house. Things you never thought you still had. For myself, I found a large number of old art pieces that I had done. Most were just experiments, seeing if I could capture form of the subject. And then there was an art piece that caught my eye. I didn’t do this one. No, this was done by a man named Scott McCullar.
For those in the know in the world of comics, Scott is an artist. I could go on about his artwork, but I think his own website (found here) can detail much better than I ever could. Scott and I met, well, online that is, through the DC Comics forums and the Green Arrow forums. Both of us had a great love of comics and in particular, specific characters. Scott was, and still is for that matter, the most knowledgeable person on the face of the planet with everything concerning Green Arrow. At the time when we met, I was building the Unofficial Hawkworld Home Page, everything needed to know about Hawkman and Hawkwoman, and eventually became a sort of continuity clean up for the mess DC Comics had gotten the characters into with the monthly Hawkworld series.
This also goes to explain my signature at the end of each blog entry. Keep ’em flyin’. I used that when I was around those old boards. And keep in mind, this is back in the days before phpbb boards were all the rage. Even before the days of Wikis. I think I just dated myself, there. But that sig line was also on the piece of artwork, which you can see here. I scanned it in Photoshop, cleaned up the piece as best I could without taking away from the original image. Now, I think I will have to find a new frame for it.
Until then…
Keep ’em flyin’.
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