Moonstruck: Michael Kaluta drawing Flash Gordon ?!?!?!

Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Michael Kaluta drawing Flash Gordon ?!?!?!

I stumbled on a few pages of Kaluta's artwork featuring Flash Gordon...beautiful pages! I have never heard of any Flash Gordon storylines done by Kaluta!

Does anyone have any ideas?

6 comments:

John Taber said...: Wow...never seen these either. :); 2:45 PM
Danos Philopoulos said...: Love this type of linework. great find!
I encourage everyone to also check out the great Kevin Ferrara. If you don't know him, he draws in that amazing tradition of Frazetta/Jones/ Kaluta/Wrightson. He's a great inspiration. His samples are at
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=101106; 3:46 AM
Alex Sheikman said...: I looked through K.Ferrara's work and enjoyed it a lot! I remember when his western comic book came out. It was pretty cool.
Danos, I also enjoyed your "Cyclops" story! Very nicely done. Not only the inking, but also the storytelling.

And still, no one has given me a clue as to the origin of these Kaluta pages!; 6:39 AM
Danos Philopoulos said...: WOW thanks alot for the positive comment! Very glad you checked it out and liked it, I'm greatly humbled!
To return the favor I did some extensive searching and... There was a Flash Gordon #18 comic called Shiraz (http://diversionsofthegroovykind.blogspot.gr/2009/09/famous-first-fridays-introducing.html) which is very early Kaluta and nothing like the ones you found. BUT a Flash Gordon fanzine by pros came out from Heritage with a Kaluta strip called Crash Landing (info at http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/heritage-1a-1b-flash-gordon-alex-132443612 OR http://booksteveslibrary.blogspot.gr/2006/03/flash-gordons-heritage.html). The rest of the pages from the story can be checked out at http://kitbashed.com/blog/landspeeder OR http://thegoldenagesite.blogspot.gr/2009/03/flash-gordon-batch-of-images-alex.html.
(Man, how cool is the internet...!); 2:02 AM
Danos Philopoulos said...: WOW thanks alot for the positive comment! Very glad you checked it out and liked it, I'm greatly humbled!

To return the favor I did some extensive searching and...

There was a Flash Gordon #18 comic called Shiraz
http://diversionsofthegroovykind.blogspot.gr/2009/09/famous-first-fridays-introducing.html
which is very early Kaluta and nothing like the ones you found.

BUT...
A cool Flash Gordon fanzine by pros came out from Heritage with a Kaluta strip called 'Crash Landing' which is safe to guess is the one you found.
More info on that at http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/heritage-1a-1b-flash-gordon-alex-132443612
OR
http://booksteveslibrary.blogspot.gr/2006/03/flash-gordons-heritage.html.

The rest of the pages from the story can be checked out at http://kitbashed.com/blog/landspeeder
OR
http://thegoldenagesite.blogspot.gr/2009/03/flash-gordon-batch-of-images-alex.html.

(Man, how cool is the internet…!); 2:09 AM
Alex Sheikman said...: Danos, that is awesome! I'll get the rest of the pages up in a few seconds...great internet detective skills :); 4:59 AM