RKMBs Forums .::Robegories::. Comic Books CAVEWOMAN by Bud Root

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The Budd Root variant cover for CAVEWOMAN ONE-SHOT SPECIAL.
https://viewcomiconline.com/cavewoman-one-shot-special-full/

The interior contents are all by artist Devon Massey, the first of many he has done, and I think this issue was his best. There's another cover by Massey as well.

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The double-page splash from BUDD'S BEAUTIES AND BEASTS 2, Feb 2007, pages 2 and 3, with color added.

I actually posted the page that preceded it in my opening post to the topic.

Updated image.

Updated, with a relevant pin-up linked from the back of CAVEWOMAN: PANGAEAN SEA 7.

Plus similarly themed pin-up pages by Root in many other issues of the CAVEWOMAN:PANGAEAN SEA series.
And CAVEWOMAN JUNGLE TALES series.
And CAVEWOMAN: PREHISTORIC PIN-UPS.

Budd Root's primary affections clearly include 1960's, 1970's and 1980's Marvel and DC, classic Hollywood monsters, FAMOUS MONSTERS magazine, Warren's other CREEPY, EERIE and VAMPIRELLA magazines, the Beatles, and other 1960's pop culture.


Budd Root also did some similar nostalgic pop-culture pages in other issues. The ones that stand out for me are two pages in his 10th anniversary special, BUDD'S BEAUTIES AND BEASTS 1, out in 2005, with two pin-ups of Root's versions of the Thing and the Hulk (with a little Frank Miller DARK KNIGHT RETURNS tossed in). This was also the issue I first discovered Budd Root's CAVEWOMAN work, the first one I purchased off the stands.
All other issues I mail-ordered from Amryl itself.

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A page from CAVEWOMAN: PANGAEAN SEA 7, but here in color.
I think it was reused as a variant cover on a later issue.



in black and white, within the story :
https://viewcomiconline.com/cavewoman-pangaean-sea-issue-7/

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The image in my opening post, but in color. From BUDD'S BEAUTIES & BEASTS 2, Feb 2007.
I like it both ways.

Here's a link to issue 1, issue 2 is not posted yet.
https://view-comic.com/budd-s-beauties-beasts-issue-1/

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I found a larger image of this Budd Root cover from CAVEWOMAN MONSTER DREAMS. I was going nuts trying to recall who the hairy character in the derby hat is in the lower left.
It's "Cousin Itt", one of the fun but creepy relatives on The Addams Family tv series. With some other family members framed on the wall in the background.
https://www.cbr.com/addams-family-members-ranked/

Some might not recognize "Rat-Fink", the signature character of Ed "Big-Daddy" Roth, who did cartoons for t-shirtss that evolved into hot rod monster trading cards in the 1960's and 1970's, and spray-painted similar stuff on actual hot rod cars, and built hot rod cars. I love the way Budd Root inserts these bits of nostalgia and popular culture in his interior art and covers.