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Greg Irons Tattoo Designs: ‘Wizards, Women, & Weirdness’ (1983)
Published April 12, 2016 Fantasy Art , Greg Irons Leave a CommentBogeyman #3 (Company & Sons, 1970)
Published June 9, 2015 Comic Books , Greg Irons , Underground Comix Leave a Comment
Disturbingly brilliant work by Rick Griffin and Rory Hayes (first two illustrations) and Greg Irons (third illustration) from the three-issue Bogeyman series, the underground’s answer to EC’s Tales from the Crypt.
You can read the whole issue at Comic Book Stories.
Greg Irons Art: `Strange Happenings’ Handbill, 1967
Published February 26, 2015 Counterculture (1960s) , Greg Irons , Make Mine Marvel , Occult/Supernatural , Psychedelic Art , Rock Posters/Handbills 2 Comments
So very interesting. Steve Ditko created the Dr. Strange character in the early ’60s, and Stan Lee introduced the “Master of Black Magic” in Strange Tales #110 (1963). The Ditko/Lee creation was a reflection of the uncanny times, a generation’s embrace of all things mystical and occult. Here Irons simultaneously appropriates the Marvel “property” (there is no mention of the company or the character name) while emulating Ditko’s style and the spirit of his and Lee’s Sorcerer Supreme. Irons did at least three posters for Space Age.
California Hall is a San Francisco landmark and makes an appearance in Dirty Harry (1971) in the scene where Callahan talks down a suicide jumper.
Greg Irons Art: Berkeley Con Button, 1973
Published February 26, 2015 Conventions (Cons)/Trade Shows , Greg Irons , Underground Comix Leave a Comment
Berkeley Con was the first underground comix convention. It ran from April 20 through April 22, 1973 at the UC Berkeley campus and featured Jaxon, S. Clay Wilson, Trina Robbins, Greg Irons, and Larry Todd, among several other now-legends. (Bob Foster posted several photos from the con here.) The Irons button—punk before punk—was actually the three-day pass to the event.
Greg Irons, you might remember, illustrated the hell out of The Official Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Coloring Album (1979) for Troubador Press, one of TSR’s first licensed products. I like to imagine an alternate universe where TSR hires Irons, who collaborates with Erol Otus on a series of trippy modules centering on raucous, transdimensional pirates and the sentient treasure they’re chasing. The duo eventually take over the company by sheer force of guts and talent. TSR is bankrupt by 1983, but Christ, who cares?
Irons left behind a huge body of work—he’s revered as a tattoo artist as well, so ‘body of work’ carries a significant double meaning—for someone who died so young (37).
(Image via Hake’s)
2 Warps to Neptune 