Bruce Timm drawing Marvel characters

[Turtletrekker]

I remember seeing some time back on another board drawings of Marvel characters by by DCAU legend Bruce Timm.

A quick search on various search engines' image search functions brought me the following images.

Of course, every time I see these images, I dream the impossible dream of a consistant Marvel animated-verse run by Timm.

I think Timm's style would work well for Marvel as well as it does DC. In fact, some of these drawings are down-right Kirby-esque.

Here are few of what I found...

 

[davejames]

Yeah just go on comicartfans or comicartcommunity and you can find a whole bunch of his stuff.

I love his pinup girl art too.

 

[Yassim]

It looks like Darwyn Cooke's stuff. Very cool.

New Frontier >> Marvels.

 

[CaptainCanada]

New Frontier >> Marvels.

I disagree. Marvels was much more coherent.

 

[Davros]

Very Kirbyesque.

 

[milo bloom]

I'm at this weird place in my knowledge of comics where they look different enough that I recognize them as different, but not so different that I'm compelled to write a nerd-rant about them being different.

 

[Anwar]

I think Timm based the DCAU designs off of Kirby's work in the first place. That's why most Marvel characters are such a good fit.

 

[Trent Roman]

Meh. I don't like the faces. The women look retro (like 50s advertising with a bit of Esurance thrown in); the men all look like someone wedged the same brick onto their shoulders (except Spidey).

Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman

 

[RJDiogenes]

Bruce Timm is fantastic. He should be EIC at Marvel, or in charge of Marvel animation; that would rock.

 

[Reverend]

Anyone who knows the DCAU should know what a huge influence Kirby was on Timm and co. and designed a character in the Superman series based directly on Kirby himself. Plus of course they used Kirby's Forth World characters quite a bit.

There are also references and nods to Marvel all over the place, he even recreated the original Defenders line-up with DC character for an episode and there's this one bit in the last JLU episode that's utterly unmistakable.

 

[Mr Light]

^^ Which bit are you referring to?

 

[Mr. Adventure]

In the second pic, who is the girl in silver with a gun?

 

[Hermiod]

^I'm guessing it's Sharon Carter.

 

[Yassim]

New Frontier >> Marvels.

I disagree. Marvels was much more coherent.

Fair enough.
I found Marvels plodding and self-congratulatory, though, and New Frontier was full of awe and 60's cool.

 

[CaptainCanada]

In the second pic, who is the girl in silver with a gun?

The Contessa (Valentina de Fontaine), I'm guessing, from the hair and the clothing style; she's Nick Fury's main squeeze.

 

[Silvercrest]

Yeah, that's Val. I think Sharon Carter is at the bottom, next to Clea.

 

[Hermiod]

^That's who I was talking about when I said it was Sharon Carter.

 

[Reverend]

Anyone who knows the DCAU should know what a huge influence Kirby was on Timm and co. and designed a character in the Superman series based directly on Kirby himself. Plus of course they used Kirby's Forth World characters quite a bit.

There are also references and nods to Marvel all over the place, he even recreated the original Defenders line-up with DC character for an episode and there's this one bit in the last JLU episode that's utterly unmistakable.

^^ Which bit are you referring to?

The one I linked to.

 

[Christopher]

I dunno... I'm so used to associating that character design style with DC characters that I'm having a hard time looking at it (at least the picture of all the heroines) and seeing Marvel. There's a cognitive dissonance there.

 

[Mr Light]

I hit play on it but it was a full third of the episode.