jbacardi

A few days ago, I mused out loud on Twitter about creating a new blog in which I drew a different fictional character- comics, literature, movies, whatever- a day and posted it. Thought it might help me exercise my atrophied drawing muscles. I got several excellent suggestions about who I could draw. Now, while I'm not quite ready yet to create yet another blog to let lie fallow, I am still using this one as sort of a sketch blog these days, and today, when I took a break from typesetting church programs, I drew one of the requests- the Phantom Stranger. Now, this isn't the classic 70's Stranger, with his swingin' medallion and turtleneck shirt, nor is it the Guy Davis-inspired Vertigo Hobo looking Stranger either. I thought it might be fun to run a newspaper to draw him as he was in his earliest appearances; when he wore a trenchcoat and tie, before Neal Adams redesigned his look. And don't get me wrong, it's a fine look that no one's really improved on 30 + years later, but I wanted to do him up all different-like. And here he is.