Since I’ve been doing a lot of posts on Silverwolf and Greater Mercury Comics lately, I thought it would be nice to share a really, really nice piece of Grips original art with you. This one is by artist Pete Ayala, artist for Grips V2 #3-5 and #7-12.
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Roman Morales III worked as an artist for Greater Mercury Comics in the early ’90s after getting out of the Marine Corps. His work was published in Assassin Force #2 and in the Grips Special #1. He also did the portfolio artwork for the for the character Edge, who was covered in an earlier post. Grips had brought a lot of exposure to the talent of Mr. Tim Vigil (during the Silverwolf run), and being asked to work on such a title must have been a blast.
He went on to work on several other titles for other publishers over the years, including Lynch Mob, The 10th Muse, and even an issue of the X-men. He was a police officer for about a decade and a half, and is currently a starring member on Mun2’s spanish-language bounty hunter reality show Fugitivos De La Ley Los Angeles (Fugitives Of the Law).
Roman Morales III (center) with the cast of Fugitivos De La Ley Los Angeles
New This week we have a commission from Ebay virtual corner artist Kurt Herston (ebay name ‘kurthetston‘). Moby decided to try getting something he has wanted for a while…Grips on the toilet. You see Grips was the flagship character for indie Comics publisher Silverwolf Comics (which later became Greater Mercury Comics) and was the launching pad for artists like Tim Vigil and Ron Lim.
The neat thing about the character was his alter-ego was a comic book artist who drew a book called ‘The Fat Ninja’, which you can see he is reading there on the toilet. The Fat Ninja’ was another title available through Silverwolf, an actual book, written and published by founder Kristoffer Silver. Continue reading »
