RIP PAD

 The Line It Is Drawn takes a week to remember Peter David, comic writer, who passed away this past week.  David is famous for his work on The Incredible Hulk, X-Factor, Aquaman, and Supergirl among many other things.  Here's David's Joe Fixit Hulk and a fight with Super-Skrull, originally occurring in Hulk 375.

See the other Liners' Peter David tributes here.

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Farewell, Ramona!

 For The Line It Is Drawn March 5th, 2024:

In honor of the passing of the great Ramona Fradon, team-up superheroes with Aquaman and/or Metamorpho.

Twitter follower @lalalei2001 suggested: Aquaman and Metamorpho.

Check out the other talented Liners' Ramona Fradon memorial pieces here!

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Heroes For Hire

For The Line It Is Drawn August 7th, 2023:

In honor of the late, great Paul Reubens, team-up comic book characters with Pee-wee Herman.

Twitter follower, @KeithAlanMorgan suggested: The new Heroes for Hire: Pee-Wee Herman and Power Man.

Check out the other Liners' Pee Wee pieces here!

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RIP John Romita

For The Line It Is Drawn June 19th, 2023:

This is a special Line it is Drawn in honor of the passing of comic book icon, John Romita Sr.

Check out the other Liners' Romita memorial pieces here! 

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RIP John Lewis

From The Line It Is Drawn, July 24th, 2020:

Our artists will be doing a special tribute to Congressman John Lewis, the first sitting member of Congress to ever win an Eisner Award. You can make some suggestions if you'd like, but I imagine they'll just come up with their own ideas for this one.

Check out the other talented Liners' memorial pieces here.

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RIP Joe Sinnott

From The Line It Is Drawn, July 3rd, 2020:

In honor of the late, great Joe Sinnott, our artists will just do tributes on their own. Next week will be a new theme, though!

You gotta go with the Thing when tributing Sinnott.  RIP Joe.

Check out the other talented Liners' Sinnott memorial pieces here.

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Denny O'Neil In Memoriam

From The Line It Is Drawn, June 19th, 2020:

In honor of the late, great Denny O'Neil, suggest a notable moment from a Denny O'Neil comic book story and our artists will pay homage to that moment however they see fit.

I depicted the characters from Denny's groundbreaking Green Lantern/Green Arrow run.  My piece is in homage to Neal Adam's original piece.

Check out the other talented Liners' O'Neil memorial pieces here.

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Soar Among The Stars, Professor Xum

We lost a very talented and amazing person recently by name of Xum Yukinori.  I hadn't met Xum directly, but he was a longtime contributor to The Line It Is Drawn segment on Comic Book Resources, which I also count myself as a contributor.  Through email and social media interactions, I grew to admire the man.  His knowledge of DC bronze age comics and his love for the cancelled Green Lantern cartoon were second to none.  Just an all around nice and great guy who loved his family and comics.

Xum was a talented and prolific artist.  Brian Cronin, editor of The Line It Is Drawn compiled a post featuring all of Xum's Line work here.

Xum would work himself into many of the Line pieces as a self-referential character known as the unabashedly conceited Professor Xum.  My homage features the Professor and his beloved Green Lantern, Aya, cruising the cosmos.  You can find the other Liner's tributes here.

Godspeed, Xum.

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Cosmic Bob

From The Line It Is Drawn, Week 412:

In honor of the passing of Stephen Hillenburg, team-up comic book characters with Spongebob Squarepants characters

Twitter followers BigMike20X6 suggested: Spongebob gets mistaken for the Cosmic Cube

Check out the other talented Liners' Hillenburg memorials here.

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Rest In Peace Steve Ditko

In honor of the late Steve Ditko, simply draw one of his many famous creations. Feel free to write in with suggestions of characters our artists might have forgotten, but I think you’ll understand that we’ll probably eschew individual credits next week.

From The Line It Is Drawn, Week 399:

In honor of the late Steve Ditko, simply draw one of his many famous creations. Feel free to write in with suggestions of characters our artists might have forgotten, but I think you’ll understand that we’ll probably eschew individual credits next week.

Check out the other talented Liners' Ditko memorial pieces here.

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Rest In Peace Adam West

From The Line It Is Drawn, Week 346:

This is a special week where the artists all just drew tributes to the late, great Adam West, star of the amazing 1960s Batman TV series (as well as the Mayor on Family Guy).

Rest In Peace, Mr. West!

Check out the other talented Liners' Adam West memorial pieces here.

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RIP Princess

From The Line It Is Drawn, Week 323:

Ugly Christmas sweaters! Name a comic book character and our artists will either design an ugly Christmas sweater and put the comic book character in said sweater or they’ll design an ugly Christmas sweater based on that superhero (or maybe BOTH)!

Rest in peace, Princess.  We miss you.

Check out the other talented Liners' Carrie Fisher memorial pieces here.

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Slam Bradley

From The Line It Is Drawn Week 292:


RIP Darwyn Cooke.

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Freddy

RIP Wes Craven.

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Ultimate Warrior

From The Line It Is Drawn Week 186:

In tribute to the passing of the Ultimate Warrior, team-up a comic book character with a famous professional wrestler. It doesn’t have to be the Warrior himself, but I’d imagine that it would be nice if he could appear a few times next week at the very least.

Twitter follower ArghantBigAxe suggested: Ultimate Warrior versus The Champion.

Check out the other great stuff drawn by the Liners here.

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