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August 17, 2015: Fabok on Drawing a Corrupted Superman in "Justice League #43"

Justice League #43 Artist Jason Fabok spoke with Newsarama.com about how writer Geoff Johns is pushing him "to the breaking point" drawing "Justice League", and how he went about rendering Superman now that he's been corrupted by Apokolips. Here's part of the interview...

    We already know Superman is corrupted by Apokolips. I don't know how much you are involved in the designs for all the different "Gods and Monsters" character changes? Like the Flash as the Black Racer and Lex Luthor as the new ruler of Apokolips?

    Fabok: Right now, Francis Manapul is tackling a lot of those things, but you're going to see some of it coming up in future issues of "Darkseid War," so I'll have my hands on a lot of them. Sometimes we're working against the clock and you can only focus on certain things.

    With the corrupted Superman, the idea was to create this negative image of Superman - it's something I've always wanted to do in comic book art. And when Geoff brought up the idea, I said, "Hey! I have this cool - something you can only do with digital art, modern digital comic book art, where all the pages are being digitized and colored and what-not."

    I'm sure it's been done before, that effect where you take a character and create an inverted negative of them. But it's something we wanted to utilize with this character.

    Geoff is great to work with because he allows you to explore things on your own and kind of find your voice with different characters and with designs. And he's really allowing me to have fun.

    One of the things I love to do is design new takes on characters, and I have ideas for some that are coming up in the future as well. I feel lucky to be the one that's drawing the book so I can do these different takes on different characters.

Read the full interview at the Newsarama website.

Justice League #43 will go on sale on Wednesday, August 19.



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