Disney Princess/ Marvel Heroine Mash-Up, part 3

Four more. Let’s get right to them.

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Mulan, loyal daughter who enters the army disguised as a man.

Lady Sif, Asgardian Warrior.

... because their both wield swords.

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Tiana, hard working, young woman who gets turned into a frog.

Rogue, has the mutant ability to temporarily acquire the powers of other mutants.

... because both are transformed after a touch.

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Giselle, fairy tale princess who accidentally crosses over into New York City.

Blink, a mutant from a possible future time line with the ability to teleportation portals.

... because both have teleported through portals to different places.

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Princess Tiger Lily, daughter of the Neverland Chief who is capture by pirates.

Magik, sister of Colossus with the mutant teleportation powers who was kidnapped by Arcade to Limbo.

... because both were kidnapped by bad guys.

All of the individual princess and Marvel Heroine sketch cards were done after and since the comic convention during which I drew the first ten mash-ups. Tiger Lily/ Magik, however, was added late to the list, because, well, she’s easy to overlook since most princess lists don’t include Tiger Lily. Unfortunately, the connection isn’t the strongest mutuality.

Disney Princess/ Marvel Heroine Mash-Up, part 2

Continuing my series of character mash-ups drawn on sketch cards with four more.

I can admit now that these mash-ups can be reduced to “Disney character dressed up as a Marvel heroine.” Beginning with Ariel from The Little Mermaid (1989), the Disney princesses have more personality and take more action, making the pairings with a Marvel heroine’s super-power easier and not totally random.

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 Ariel, the little mermaid who trades her voice to become human.

Namorita, clone of the cousin to Namor, the Sub-Mariner.

... because they both spend a lot of time under water.

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Belle, book-reading village outcast who falls in love with a beastly monster whom is a prince.

Marvel Girl, a tele-pathic, tele-kintetic founding member of the mutant group the X-Men.

... because Belle reads and uses her mind and Marvel Girl reads minds.

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Jasmine, princess and sole heir to the desert kingdom of Agrabah.

Tigra, a vigilante who mutated into a super-powered tiger-woman.

... because Jasmine is a girl with a pet tiger and Tigra is a tiger-girl.

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Pocahontas, daughter of Chief Powhatan who risks her life to save the English invader, John Smith.

Dazzler, mutant super-hero with the ability to transform sound into light and energy beams.

... because Pocahontas sings “Colors of the Wind” and Dazzler makes colors (lights) from the wind (sound vibrations).

As one of the first mash-ups done, Belle/ Marvel Girl along with Snow White/ Wasp lacks the title header, because I had thought it was a better game for folks browsing though these cards if it was all about the visual clues. It turned out that given the names, the game changed into figuring out why I paired the two characters.

I chose the blue-skinned look of Namorita over the classic one-piece bathing suit because Ariel in a one-piece wouldn’t look like a mash-up. That goes the same for passing over Alpha Flight member Marrina.

Disney Princess/ Marvel Heroine Mash-Up, part 1

During this summer’s Heroes Convention (possibly just before, but definitely carried through during),   drew original art sketch cards mashing up some Disney princesses with Marvel Comics’ heroines (mostly).

At first, it was a lark and choosing amongst the Marvel characters was based primarily popularity, but then I tried to be clever. Still cleverness could only carry me so far, and some of the connections turned out to be superficial or tenuous or a shade this side of random.

Here are four of them...

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Snow White, star of Walt Disney’s first full length animated feature, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

Wasp, a founding member of the Avengers.

... because they share a “W” initial and both were among the first heroines for each company.

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Cinderella, a common girl who anonymously attends a royal ball where the Prince falls in love with her charm and beauty.

Amora, the Enchantress, an Asgardian goddess who uses her magic powers to charm and seduce men.

... because of “charm”, “beauty” and the “falling in love” thing.

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Princess Aurora (a.k.a. the Sleeping Beauty), star of Disney’s third feature-length animated fairy tale, who grows up in the woods, falls in love with a boy (the prince), and fall under a sleeping enchantment through the last third of her own film.

Scarlet Witch, along with her brother, Quicksilver, is a powerful mutant who’s father is Magneto, leader of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants.

... because both grew up unaware of their true parents and heritage.

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Eilonwy, young princess of the unheralded animated feature, The Black Cauldron.

Invisible Girl (later Invisible Woman), founding member of Marvel’s first family of super-heroes, the Fantastic Four, who gains the ability to turn invisible.

... because Eilonwy may as well be invisible.

Unsupervised

Last week’s outing to Long Beach Comic Con went super well.

The last time I was at a LBCC, was about nine years ago sharing space in Juan Ortiz’s Silver Comics booth.  Since then, my basic criteria for a good showing at a comic convention is how busy I am with commissions. Because if I’m not drawing at a con, then what am I supposed to do? Talk to people about super-heroes?

Here are three of last weekend’s commissions that are NOT super-heroes...

Mickey Mouse in were-wolf Halloween costume.

Snow White from Fables.

Sherlock from “Sherlock” sketch card.

Thanks to:

Long Beach Comic Con

Merrill, Allen, 

Kyle, Matthew, Anna, 

Cindy, Chel, George, 

Izack, Gordon, Elsa, 

Aaron, L. J., Rhett, 

John, Krystel, Steve 

and James.

Life’s a Beach

Monster Enterprises presents 

Bryan Mon (me) 

and Merrill Hagan

at Long Beach Comic Con

 September 27-28, 2014 

Long Beach Convention & Entertainment Center

200 S. Pine Ave,
Long Beach, CA 90802

 Artist Alley table: 2409 

Sat. : 10 a.m. - 7 p.m. 

Sun. : 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. 

 L B C N U!

Beauty and the Beast

Color Pencil on wood panel

15.24 x 15.24 x 2.22 cm (6 inches x 6 inches x 0.875 inches)

2014

All SPARC and No Bite

Glendale, CA, August 25, 2014 — Disney Consumer Products (DCP) transformed one of the ground level hallways on the Grand Central Creative Campus, GC3 for short, into the SPARC Gallery.

SPARC, which stands for Seek-Partner-Adapt-Risk-Create, is an initiative DCP has to involve and inspire their Cast-Members a.k.a. employees. One of the things SPARC does is bring in guest speakers in a TED Talks way.

For the inaugural show of the gallery, participating Cast-Members get the spotlight with samples of their personal artwork. Over one-hundred pieces are currently on display.

My entry in this exhibition is a nine-inch tall paper craft figure inspired by the self-caricature of artist and cartoonist Meredith McClaren from her scraps comic and blog. The wall mounted shelf is wrapped with a reproduction of the six-page layout of the six-inch version of the build-it-yourself figure.

 Thanks to Meredith McClaren for allowing me to enter this in the show.

GC3 is a private Disney facility, which unfortunately means the gallery is inaccessible to the public without being a guest of a Disney Cast-Member.

Long Beach CC: Convention Sketches

Order Your Convention Sketches for Pick Up NOW — Yes, of course, I will be drawing custom convention sketches to order during the 2-day con. However, in advance of the event I am accepting a limited number of orders-for-pick-up from now up until Sun. Sep. 21, 2014. 

If you will be attending Long Beach Comic Convention this year and would like to commission a sketch by me, then this may be the deal for you! For the super reasonable rate of $15 per-character, I will take your commission/order to make some original art. The specification are as follows: I will draw, ink and block in color with color-pencil on 9 in. x 12 in. Bristol board. 

As previously stated, I will only be accepting limited number of orders as time permits, at up to 2 characters per-person. Then you can pay for and pick up your completed order at LBCC. 

Pretty easy, eh? If you’re interested, please contact me via e-mail at bryanlmon@yahoo.com or check the “View my complete profile” on this blog.

If you miss the order window, don’t worry, I will be taking on commissions during the con.

JAKE the Dog ©Cartoon Network

BLACK WIDOW, INVISIBLE GIRL ©Marvel

JABBA THE HUTT ©Lucas Film

ARIEL ©Disney