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 So I did the reasonable thing, I called Aardvark Vanaheim, left a message and forgot about it. Dave called me sometime later and we discussed a new Cerebus T shirt. I had a vague idea for a concept that Dave took and ran with. When we opened the file some months later we were astonished by the amount of detail that Dave poured into the artwork. I still say to this day that this is the quintessential Cerebus T-shirt. Once we produced the garment our next thought was "Okay, this looks awesome, so how do we sell it?" Fast forward through a long, strange winter and you have "World of Strange" So in a sense you might say the Aardvark made us do it. |
 This piece is entitled "Rock God" and the scope of the image is daunting. I like to think of this lumbering bohemoth as something akin to the Ents in Middle Earth. The idea that the mountains surrounding us are sleeping giants strikes a chord with me. Armando says these things are gods, they sleep for thousands of years but when they awaken and stir from their slumber it is an awe inspiring thing to behold. Hailing from Santa Domingo, Armando Gil is a name known to virtually every collector of original comic book art and any fans of comic books in general. He forged a career at Marvel with one of the most distinctive inking styles seen. His art looked like molten steel, fluid yet firm and strong enough to hold up against anyones. When asked, inker Bob Almond had this to say about Armando, "I always thought he looked best over Michael Golden like in Avengers Annual 10 and The Nam, but I recall some impressive work over others as well like how much he enhanced Ron Wilson's work on the Superboxers GN.....and while he didn't do many long runs at Marvel, some issues stick out even to this day like his efforts inking Ron Frenz on a good run on Kazar, a shorter run with Pat Broderick on Micronauts, and an issue over Gene Day on Master of Kung-Fu. We definitely would have been better off to see more of his work over the years." |
