Showing posts with label Curtis King. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Curtis King. Show all posts

Monday, March 7, 2016

Anatomy of a Logo: Timber Wolf


On January 13, 1992, Curtis King, of DC Comics, faxed five pages of 
Timber Wolf sketches. I accepted his offer to refine and finish the logo.







Work began January 19, 1992; photocopy of fax made on the blank side of an X-Force photocopy.

Bold outline added to Wolf; red guide lines added; arrows and circles indicating adjustments

On January 20, tracing paper was placed over the above photocopy
and a tight outline rendering of the logo was made.

The outline rendering was photocopied and filled in. Questions and
suggestions were noted in the margins. This was faxed to Curtis.

Curtis’s response to my fax. 

Pieces of a Post-It Note covered the affected areas.

Photocopy with changes made to letters T, W, M, B and O. 
The T and I do not touch. I also made an alternate W.

Timber Wolf logo with version one of W.

Timber Wolf logo with version two of W.

Photocopy with additional changes to be made.

The final art measures 8.625 x 12.06 in / 21.91 x 30.63 cm.

Timber Wolf was published from November 1992 to March 1993.






(Next post on Monday: Elizabeth Colwell)

Monday, September 21, 2015

Anatomy of a Logo: New Gods


In April 1995 Curtis King faxed the previous four New Gods logos for reference.

The first version of New Gods appeared on issues one through eleven from 1971 to 1972.


The series was cancelled then revived in 1977 with a new logo, The Return of the New Gods. The numbering resumed with issue twelve and ended on nineteen.


In 1984 Kirby’s New Gods was reprinted in six issues. The new logo was by Todd Klein who also designed The Death of the New Gods logo.


New Gods was revived in 1989. The new logo appeared on numbers one through seventeen. The 1984 logo was brought back for the final three issues.


My logo sketches from April 1995.























Feedback.


Back to the drawing board, May 1995.







Design number 3 without the bottom diamond.



Final Art.


My New Gods logo, without the diamonds, appeared on issues one (October 1995) through twelve (November 1996). The original logo was brought back for numbers 13, 14 and 15.


My New Gods logo with the diamonds was used on the Kirby collection published in 1998.