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Phillip Hester

@philhester

5 years

Spider-Verse is going to be an artistic baby boom. Sooooo many future cartoonists born this month.

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When Jack Kirby died, I sat down and drew this. For some reason, I felt I wasn't worthy of posting any sort of tribute, so I shelved it. Here it is 30 years later. I'm now closer to his age at death than mine when I drew it.

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5 years

Kirby's take on Superman's heat vision is pure metal.

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6 years

I can't grasp how someone could love the Marvel universe-- one full of heroes who are in one way or another outcasts, but who still choose to fight for the world explicitly rejecting them-- and come away with even a drop of intolerance in their soul.

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2 years

Can't believe DC passed on this exciting group of rivals I designed for the Justice League.

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8 months

I thought I drew an OK Demon, then Gerardo stepped on my neck.

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7 years

I don't want evil people to die. I want evil people to get good.

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Phillip Hester

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5 years

I know very few of you remember this eleventy-billion dollars later, but when @BRIANMBENDIS set out to make The Avengers relevant, everyone was all, "Good luck, pal. This is X-Men land." Now your mom knows who Ronin is.

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Phillip Hester

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4 years

My son, a geologist by education, chemist by profession, pulling 12 hour shifts to synthesize raw materials for COVID tests. My daughter, a grad student and NA in the NICU of a teaching hospital, covering ER shifts. Me, thinking up quips for Beast Boy.

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Phillip Hester

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6 years

The Bruce Timm version of every character is the right version.

Cool Comic Art

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6 years

Deadman by Bruce Timm

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6 years

You're not in a race with other artists. You're not even on the same road.

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1 year

Lines? Lines are for cowards.

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Phillip Hester

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6 years

Comic book careers are like musicial ones. A vanishingly small number of us can fill arenas, a lucky few get a hit or two and can tour our whole careers, most are gigging at local venues, some just jamming in the garage.

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1 year

My top bit of comics advice after "make comics" is "marry a spouse with family health insurance."

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1 year

When someone mentions the Death of Superman, this is what I see:

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Phillip Hester

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5 years

My comicbookers, do not meet Hollywood's desire to wash out, tone down, or otherwise make practical your super-hero design. Get weirder. Get so weird the compromise they settle on will still be weird as hell.

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Phillip Hester

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2 years

When you dump so much ink on a commission it won't lay flat on the board.

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5 years

You might have forgotten about the best Iron Man drawing.

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10 months

Flowers for MODOK

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2 years

When Superman's not mad, just... disappointed.

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Phillip Hester

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4 years

How I write (some of) my comics.

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Phillip Hester

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4 years

No living actor could capture the expression of the comic book editor who, during a portfolio review, told me I drew hands poorly and needed to start using my own hands as reference just as they noticed my actual hands and realized I had been all along.

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Phillip Hester

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5 years

I think every monthly comic book should have a back-up feature by either new, outsider, against type, or emeritus talent.

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Phillip Hester

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4 years

Sometimes you observe the depth of field Garcia-Lopez conjures out of a flat piece of paper and decide to chop your drafting table into kindling.

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Phillip Hester

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10 months

How Ol' MODOK turned out. This will be available through my #106Kirbys campaign for charity this August.

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Phillip Hester

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4 years

I deleted the original tweet to keep from cluttering up the hashtag, but here's the John Stewart I auctioned off if you just want to look at it.

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Phillip Hester

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4 years

I bought a new car without financing.

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@GoldenParmesan

4 years

say something nice about suicide squad (2016)

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9 months

One is a titan wielding incalculable cosmic power and the other is a statue of a comic book character.

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@WalterSimonson

9 months

Who IS this guy???

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Phillip Hester

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2 years

By the time I could afford a Neal Adams sketch, I couldn't afford to leave my convention table long enough to stand in his line. So, my buddy Cho Ravada went and scored this for me as a surprise.

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Phillip Hester

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10 months

Spirit commission. Trying to catch up on my list before I start another funnybook.

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Phillip Hester

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4 years

If you think having no audience will stop us from making comics, you don't know cartoonists very well.

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Phillip Hester

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5 years

I don't usually render this way, but every once in a while you gotta draw an itchy Swamp Thing.

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Phillip Hester

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2 years

Neal Adams got us pre-digital pros our originals back, and indirectly created the hobby of Original Art collecting.

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Phillip Hester

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6 years

Shout out to all my conspiracy junkies who believe there's a cabal of global elitist overlords, but a generational billionaire running the most powerful nation in history isn't part of it.

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Phillip Hester

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1 year

I'm not paying $3,500 for a print, but they're... so... big.

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Phillip Hester

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7 years

Why do comic book makers retweet praise? Because we spend 99% of our lives alone in little rooms thinking, "Am I really any good at this?"

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5 years

When I read a terrible comic, I just can't resist the temptation to never mention it and go find another comic to read instead.

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Phillip Hester

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10 months

Pros, if a convention does not offer table + lodging + travel, you are not a guest. You are a customer.

✨Cara✨ C2E2 K-11

@ohcararara

10 months

At this point I might have to stop attending shows that don't at least offer me comped tables at cons. Even with things with Marvel, Comixology/Dark Horse, and Netflix to promote this year, I still can't afford to spend $500+ on a table along with travel, hotel, and product costs

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Phillip Hester

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2 years

Your comic book may not be perfect, but if it's fun for you to make, it's going to be fun for someone to read.

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Phillip Hester

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6 years

Artists can get loopy because we have impostor syndrome and god complex blaring simultaneously and at earsplitting volume.

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Phillip Hester

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2 years

The great Alex Nino, still daring as all heck in his old age.

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Phillip Hester

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5 years

Don't envy comic book editors. You have to say no to people you adore, badger friends to turn in work, fire your heroes, send surefire projects upstairs to be decapitated, and when you finally do shepherd a masterpiece into existence, no one remembers.

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2 years

I can retire from comics now.

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2 years

Never make comics. That way you'll always credibly believe you're probably good at it.

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Phillip Hester

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5 months

Not done with these dudes yet.

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Phillip Hester

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4 years

In 1977 DC decided not to use this rare, blockbuster JLGL/Wrightson cover because it was... too cool?

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Phillip Hester

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2 years

As someone who struggles with drawing non-fantastical things, the (seemingly) effortless excellence of this Zaffino page is especially galling.

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Phillip Hester

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2 years

Finished The Batman. All praise to explicitly no-kill super-heroes.

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Phillip Hester

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3 years

Adios, you mad god of chaos.

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Phillip Hester

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2 years

Hats off to the little kid in church slithering under the pews on his elbows who made eye contact with me and whispered, "Welcome to 'Nam."

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Phillip Hester

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2 years

Quickie Swamp Thing

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Phillip Hester

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5 years

I stayed up too late reading comics. I am 53 years old.

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Phillip Hester

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1 year

One of my favorite things about Born Again is how Mazz draws every character in this perfect shorthand for realistic portraiture except poor Ben Urich, who looks like he's about to vibrate his way into a Sienkiewicz book.

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Phillip Hester

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6 years

Wife, looking at my 70+ long box comics collection: What is happening with these? Me: They're for my retirement. Wife: You're finally going to sell them? Me, incapable of answering due to sudden daydream about rereading Dave Cockrum Ms. Marvels on my deathbed:

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Phillip Hester

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6 years

BTW, y'all didn't have to make any Darkseid drawings after this:

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Phillip Hester

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2 years

Very down about Tim Sale. Doesn't really process. Great talent with a very healthy attitude about creating art and dealing with success. If you want to learn something from his career, it's this-- be yourself, let your people find you.

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Phillip Hester

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5 years

The actual winner of my Mantlo fundraiser sketch poll was people writing in ROM, so you win, MFers.

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2 years

I'll never know the struggle he and his family may have endured in private, but the grace and joy George Perez displayed in his public life over the last few months has been edifying.

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Phillip Hester

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1 year

I feel a great disturbance in The Force. As if a hundred cartoonists' favorite Simonson page were suddenly up for auction.

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Phillip Hester

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5 years

Hobo Green Arrow vs Hobo Flash from Grand Comic-con

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2 years

From my collection. The way George Perez draws Robotman brings me immeasurable pleasure. (Tanghal inks)

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Phillip Hester

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2 years

I once got put on a panel with George Perez, and even though I'd been drawing comics professionally for 20 years at the time, felt totally unqualified to share the dais... Until George went out of his way to make me feel like an equal. Incredible graciousness.

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Phillip Hester

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4 years

Kids, don't do comics.

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@MitchGerads

4 years

2009/2019

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Phillip Hester

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2 years

When I was 13 this was about the coolest thing ever. Feel so bad for the GI Joe/Transformers generation.

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Phillip Hester

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6 years

Confession: I own a Bruce Timm piece I've never posted because when he was once my table neighbor he scrapped a sketch and threw it on the ground and I was "ayoink."

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Phillip Hester

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3 years

The fact that we never got a P Craig Russell Silver Surfer run is proof that we're living in a fallen universe.

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Phillip Hester

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7 months

Keith Giffen was the living embodiment of American comics. Equal parts energy, intelligence, and enthusiasm evident in all his work. Someone at DC once gave him my phone # in error. Though it was a wrong number, we wound up just talking comics for half an hour. Beautiful guy.

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Phillip Hester

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6 years

If you're doing a creator owned project and the artist isn't a co-owner, you're not doing a creator owned project.

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Phillip Hester

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2 years

Wondering if I can get rich in the next 30 days.

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Phillip Hester

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1 year

This page will sell for an ungodly sum in a few hours, and it got me thinking. Has any creator had a decade of explosive creativity like Frank Miller's early 80's to early 90s? Kirby's 60's?

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Phillip Hester

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4 years

If you've ever inked anything before, amateur or pro, allow the locomotive smoke* in the Moebius Blueberry page to break your heart. *also everything else pictured

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Phillip Hester

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1 year

Normal humans: "Look at those figures!" Comic book artists: "Look at those rivets!"

MiN

@qdqdminbpbp

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Wally Wood y Dave Stevens

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Phillip Hester

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28 days

Very sad to hear about Ed Piskor. Some of you know that someone close to me was in a similar, but not identical situation. Though he isn't part of my life anymore, my last call to him was to make sure he wouldn't take this route.

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Phillip Hester

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2 years

Once tabled next to Timm and watched him crank out hit after hit with but a humble Sharpie. He might've crafted this beauty with Hy-Vee watercolors or grade school map pencils. The swordsman who can defeat you without unsheathing his blade. A golf pro out-driving you with a 2x4.

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Phillip Hester

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5 years

Let me say this as kindly yet firmly as possible. To be frank, if your shared super-hero universe does not feature a swamp/bog man-monster of some kind, it is a joke.

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Phillip Hester

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7 years

A taste of what my Kirby marathon sketches look like.

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Phillip Hester

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6 years

Modern comic book colorists should make more than they do since about half of them are basically being asked to draw the book.

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Phillip Hester

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2 years

We're in a new golden age of X-Men art, you all.

PepeLarraz

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2 years

Inks for X-Men #12 cover. Have a nice weekend y'all!

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Phillip Hester

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1 year

Think you're a bad ass? Let me know when *your drawing style itself* is banned by the Comics Code. We needed Kevin O'Neill so badly.

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Phillip Hester

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2 years

Probably the coolest thing to ever happen to Valiant.

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Phillip Hester

@philhester

2 years

Your first chance to buy this new Green Arrow print by yours truly, @andeparks & @deezoid will be at the @heroinitiative booth during C2E2 for a mere $20 donation to Hero-- while supplies last!

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Phillip Hester

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4 years

Has there ever been a better contiguous trio on a jam sketch?

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4 years

WIP: Tiny Thing sketch.

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Phillip Hester

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4 years

Just had to drop my wife and MiL (both recent cancer survivors) at an ER for a non-Covid related emergency, but due to current restrictions could not attend them, so my anger at you unmasked goons is at a level dangerous to my health.

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Phillip Hester

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3 years

Not ready to live in a world where my aunt has opinions about Beta Ray Bill.

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Phillip Hester

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1 year

WIFE: Do you get anything for this Ant-Man movie? ME: Honey, do you know how many Ant-Men they have to use up before they get to mine?

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Phillip Hester

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4 years

My wife doesn't even know the difference between Marvel & DC.

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Phillip Hester

@philhester

2 years

Bless this legendary creator. Surround him with your love.

Bitter Script Reader

@BittrScrptReadr

2 years

Comic book legend George Perez has announced through his FB page that he has Stage 3 pancreatic cancer and has six months to live. You cannot begin to describe the impact this man had as an artist for DC and Marvel and who by all accounts is an incredibly nice guy too.

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Phillip Hester

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6 years

#OneKirby Finished piece. 11x14. Top pledge to @heroinitiative gets it shipped directly. Bids accepted at my discretion until 9 PM CDT. PLEASE, BABY, PLEASE, DO NOT send Hero any money until I tell you you have won. Happy Birthday, King!

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Phillip Hester

@philhester

2 years

We3 done right.

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Phillip Hester

@philhester

5 years

I quit. I quit. I quit comics.

Denys Cowan Art

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B&W version of the Question #1 Black Label cover. Inks by the man @sinKEVitch 👊🏾 #dccomics #thequestion #vicsage #blacklabel #penandink #comics #comicart #coverart #denyscowan

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Phillip Hester

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9 months

Friends, the whole team really--and I mean really--liked making this comic book. If you want more of this kind of material from us and DC, buy two of these!

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Phillip Hester

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7 months

Someone's about to turn two pieces of paper into a Tuscan villa.

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Phillip Hester

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2 years

I back a lot of kickstarters-- like, a LOT. But if you're a publishing company large enough to have, say, an accounting department, I balk. My crowdfunding $ are for the kids, the crazed loners, the outcasts, the forgotten gems.

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Phillip Hester

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3 years

My long quest for the greatest Curt Swan Superman panel has come to an end.

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3 years

My favorite aspect of the DCEU is if you make up a character they use, you get paid.

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11 months

Anti-life is so much fun to draw.

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Phillip Hester

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3 years

One year DC had me do the Batman licensing art instead of JLGL. That was a travesty, but it lead to one of the most important moments in TV history: Drew Carey wearing a Batman & Robin necktie with my art on it.

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Phillip Hester

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3 years

I decided to make a drawing of Green Arrow through (most of) the years for a charity auction. @andeparks will fix it. Maybe we'll get it colored and make a print?

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