Thursday, August 14, 2008

Books I'd Kill to Draw: Superman's Wife, Lois Lane


This sort of goes along with the Jimmy Olsen drawing from the other day. Lois Lane is another supporting character that I think could easily carry their own title, if done properly. She had her own title back in the day, with Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane, that lasted for all of 137 issues,as well as a handfull of one-shots and miniseries along the way. I think for it to work nowadays it might have to be a bit of a mash up of some of the silver-age kookiness and Lois actually using some of her reporter's instincts to get into the fray a bit though.
With this sketch I was trying to riff on the Fleisher Studios bow-lipped version with a slightly modernized version of her hair. I think she ended up almost looking as much like Huntress from the Birds of Prey TV show as Superman's gal. Still kind of dig the sketch though:D

2 comments:

Alan said...

Great! She looks super-foxy with the short hair. Great drawing: lovely shadows under the lapels and collar etc give it realism. She got attitude too

Chris Samnee said...

Thanks, Alan. I figure Lois is about 60% attitude and 40% gumption:)