Comix artists draw Bowie
Sean Collins of Fantagraphics got a bunch of comic artists to draw renditions of David Bowie in his sketchbook and compiled them into a Flickr set. At far left, Adrian Tomine's Bowie (as Halloween Jack). At immediate left, Charles Burns's Ziggy Stardust. Link to Sean's blog post, Link to the Flickr set (via Fantagraphics Flog!)Other themed sketchbooks held by Fantagraphics folks include Jacob Covey's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle book and Mike Baehr's Yoda book. Link
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Does this make anyone else think of the 'Flight of the Chonchords' David Bowie in Space?
"This is Bowie calling Bowie, can you hear me Bowie..."
I surprise not one artist made a point to draw how different one eye is to the other. That's what makes Bowie, Bowie.
But none the less this is inspiring and I am going to draw my own version of Bowie.
...Actually, the drawing to the left isn't Ziggy, it's Halloween Jack from Diamond Dogs. Still a real cool cat, regardless :-)
OM, the drawing to the far left, by Adrian Tomine, is indeed Halloween Jack, but I do believe the drawing to the immediate left of the post, by Charles Burns, is Ziggy.
Are you certain that the figure on the left is not one of Zaphod Beeblebrox's heads?
...Ok, I'm seeing two images - one of a eyepatched Bowie, the other of a balding Bowie with a Shazam! across his face. The former is Halloween Jack, the latter is actually Aladdin Sane.
...Lessee, off the top of my head, Bowie's personas have been, and probably not in the following order:
* Major Tom
* Ziggy Stardust
* Halloween Jack
* Aladdin Sane
* The Thin White Duke
* The "Heroes" Bowie that hung out with Fripp and Eno and made Berlin more depressing than the Russians.
* Major Tom's "Ashes", AKA the "Clown" Bowie
* The "Bowling Pin" / "Proto-Punk" Bowie that resulted from his brief association with Klaus Nomi & Joey Aria.
* The "Clean White Duke" AKA "Tanned Duke" from the "Let's Dance" comeback/reinvention era
* The "Clean Grungy" Bowie from "Never Let Me Down" era.
* Screaming Lord Byron from "Blue Jean".
* The Detective from the Reznor collaboration/contamination "Outside".
* "Soul Train Era" Bowie - androgyny in a business suit. AKA to some extent as "The Bowie Who Fell To Earth and got Roeged at Gunpoint".
* The "Family Man" Bowie. Only seen once with Bing Crosby.
...I'm probably missing a couple here and there, but the guy's so damn prolific and reinventive that it's easy to miss some of the short-lived ones.
The drawings are missing his nipple antenna that he uses to send data back to earth.
Om, I salute your expertise.
...Thanks, but I wouldn't call myself a complete expert, just someone who's followed Bowie's career since he accidentally bought Space Oddity thinking it was the soundtrack for 2001. Some of those descriptors I've assigned to the various eras may strike some dischord amongst Bowie fans, however. One in particular - the "Family Man" one - has been vehemently argued by some Bowie fanatics as actually being "The Little Drummer Bowie", while the "Bowling Pin" Bowie has been argued as being not really Bowie, but Nomi and Aria simply dressing up Bowie in their own act style.
...The former I'll disagree with simply because I wasn't trying to be punny with that particular one-shot performance with Bing. The latter has some merit, tho - the "Plastic Tux" that Bowie wears during the SNL performance was the same one Nomi used for most, if not all of his performances as the "Operatic Robot". This was during Bowie's NYC era(*), and apparently he'd become friends with Nomi & Aria after seeing one of their performances. They helped essentially get him into the whole punk and proto-newwave scene, which explains how they wound up with him on SNL performing that rather unique version of The Man Who Sold The World.
(*) Hey, I forgot "I Am A DJ" Bowie, gas mask, spray paint, humble pie and bitter fruit! Mea culprit!