Mike Maihack

80's X-Girls (2013)

Here's the next batch of 80's X-Girls I was commissioned to do; these all from 2013.

Rogue:

Storm:

White Queen (Emma Frost):

2023-09-07 23:14:12 +0000 UTC View Post

80's X-Girls (2012)

OK! Here we go! The first of many X-Girls I'l be posting all month long.

I decided to start all the way at the beginning, with this digital commission of Storm, Rogue, Psylocke and Dazzler. For a drawing that's over a decade old, I guess it's not that bad? But whoosh. It's still tough to share it with you. Lots of rubber joints and bubblegum mouths.

I think it's important to show not only how my style evolved over...

X-TEMBER Poll

Hey everyone! SUPER quick request from y'all.

I spent part of my morning collecting all of my 80's X-Girl drawings to share for X-TEMBER and I have what looks like 28 of them! If I share most of them individually that would mean pretty much daily posts for this month. I'm always weary of this, so please LMK what you prefer below. (Keep in mind SuperBatober will also be daily.)

Thank you!

X-TEMBER

Hi all! Hope your weekends have been off to a great start.

I thought I'd try something a little different this month and make it a theme month. More specifically an X-Men theme month! Even more specifically, an 80's fashion X-Ladies month (at least mostly). I decided to call it X-TEMBER!

A few years back I took a really fun commission gig to draw a ton of 80's X-Ladies for a patron of mine. It was...

Wonder Girl Sketch

Happy mid-week, my friends! I hope you'll indulge me with one more messy SBFF sketch. Had never drawn Donna Troy before so thought I'd give her a shot. Winded down my day sketching her after some more Spidey pages (and hurricane prep) last night and splashed some quick color on it this afternoon.

For those who might be wondering, it was pretty rainy and breezy here north of Tampa through the night and into the morning due to to Idalia sp...

Batgirl Sketch

Hey, everyone! Sorry for the lack of posts this week. I've had my nose to the Cintiq working to meet my Spidey 3 deadline and have been staying extra focused on only that (or trying to at least). Thankfully, I'm in good shape to have the whole book drawn by the end of next week and then it's just coloring, coloring, coloring. And since coloring is a lot less taxing on my mental state, hopefully that'll leave me room to take care of a few chara...

Tradecraft Conversation

Hi all! Last week I chatted with J Alex Morrissey for his excellent Tradecraft podcast. We talked about--well we talked about a LOT of things--but mostly we talked about making art and how to find the joy in making said art. It was a really chill and fun conversation! The second thing we talked most about was probably superheroes (which we honestly could have just kept doing for the rest of the day).

Anyhoo, listen to it 2023-08-22 16:18:02 +0000 UTC View Post

Supergirl Sketch

Boy! It's been a tiring week. School is back in session here in Florida and for the first time my boys are at two different ones (elementary & middle school). So it's a been a bit of a transition waking up extra early to get everyone where they need to be. Put on top of that some extra family stuff and me unfortunately being behind on Spidey pages and it's just been nonstop here at the Maihack household. 

So I took some time to ...

Tinkerbell Watercolor (and Auction)

✨ Hi friends! Quick reminder that the auction for this piece ends today, Sunday at 2pm EST (or shortly thereafter). Best of luck! ✨

Hi, all! Here's a lil' Tinkerbell for your Tuesday. It was originally intended to be a Happy Monday sketch, but I decided it might be more beneficial to watercolor it in prep for a bunch of character sketches I took on before merging tiers. That process takes a little longer so... here i...

Rooftop Hangout Timelapse

Happy Friday, my friends! Thought some of you might like to see a timelapse drawing of that Batgirl Supergirl illustration I posted earlier this week. Above is the quick 60 second version. If you want to see all the little nuts, bolts and loose screws of my process working on this, I uploaded the full version HERE to my private Vudu account. It's...

Rooftop Hangout

Hi, all! And happy midweek. Hope it's been a good one for you so far.

This is a piece I've been kinda noodling away at between other drawings. I've drawn Babs and Kara a lot this year, but not as much with them together. So this is a bit of a precursor before SuperBatober starts up in a couple months.

In my imaginary graphic novel, this would be the beginnings of a sequence right around the second act where, after school, a young, ...

Summer Hat

Happy Friday, my friends! Here's a quick little warm-up sketch from this morning before diving back into more Spidey pages. Messing around with a softer brush this time around (just for fun).

BTW, thanks for all the kind words on that Barbie/StarTrek mash-up from earlier this week! It was kind of a silly idea, so wasn't sure how it would be received. Miiiiight post to the socials tonight just because of how hot those two propert...

Where no doll has gone before...

Hi all! This is what happens when someone (like me) gets back from finally seeing the Barbie movie while simultaneously catching up on the current season of Strange New Worlds.

Highly recommend both btw!

Diamonds & Hearts

Hi friends! Happy Friday.

This was originally going to be another random beach girl pinup but, like that Storm I shared a couple of weeks ago, fairly quickly became a simple Harley Quinn pinup instead. I feel like this kind of fan art is nondescript enough that I can get away with some of it in an eventual art book anyways.

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In other news, I finally got an invite (thanks, Joel!) so 2023-07-28 17:31:11 +0000 UTC View Post

Tier changes!

Hi all! I know this is a lot but PLEASE READ as this effects ALL PATRONS.

Starting TODAY, every benefit on this Patreon will be included at the $3 SUPER SPACE CAT tier. This includes private art actions, sketch opportunities, exclusive posts about my next graphic novel and anything else that was only available in the $5 and $10 tiers.

2023-07-27 20:10:47 +0000 UTC View Post

Meow Monday

Hi, my friends! I'm back from a short, yet fun, trip to SDCC! It was good to see some of you there. Thanks for taking time out to check out one or both of my panels. Really loved putting some faces to some names. Now I'm happy to be back with no trips planned for over a month and ready to concentrate on getting my third and final* Spidey book done.

Before that though, here's a little Catwoman pinup to warm up to the work week. Pink color...

Guardians of the Galaxy Lineup

Since they're the primary team-up in the third Spidey book, My publisher asked me if I ever drew a Guardians of the Galaxy lineup they could possibly share at SDCC this year. I hadn't! Until today that is. Because I needed to create a reference pic for how I'll draw them in the book.

I wanted to unify them (without losing their fun individual characteristics) so gave them all Quill's signature little flame logo (LMK if there's a name for...

SDCC Schedule

UPDATE: So I found out the library panel is a registered event. Still free, but you have to go here to register for it (the signing is open to the public and you can preorder books in advance at that link as well).

Apologies that I missed that info before!

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Hi, all! Here's my sche...

New Summer Prints!

Hi, all! Finally got around to putting all of the new prints I ordered for HeroesCon up in my online shop. As well as a few reprints of some past ones. Quantities are limited so giving everyone here a first shot at them before posting to the public.

In addition to the usual 8x10 and 11x14 sizes, I decided to test the waters with some 2023-07-13 14:32:03 +0000 UTC View Post

It's...Storm time!

Hi all! Back from vacation! Great to relax, but simultaneously happy to be back home for a short while before heading out to San Diego next week (more details on that later).

This was initially a going to be another little pinup doodle before pretty much immediately turning into a little Storm doodle instead. Probably due to all the actual storms we've been having in here in Florida lately. Anyhoo, she's always fun to draw. I'm ...

Beach Blonde

Hi! Here's a little midweek pinup doodle for y'all. Hope everyone is having a relaxing and/or celebratory and/or productive day so far today! :)

Pink Hair & Stripes

Happy Saturday!

Sorry for the lack of posts this week. I was furiously trying to get story/pencils for the third Spidey book finished by Friday. This was on top of all the other responsibilities on my plate plus being a father of two during the summer.

Thankfully, I was able to get those pages done! And decided to unwind last night with another pinup piece for the art book I hope to crowdfund next year. I had a very simple, earthy ...

Harley Monday

Occurred to me the year is almost half over and I've yet to draw a new Harley, so here's one to start off the work week. ❤️🖤

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Batgirl/Supergirl stickers are getting mailed out today!

Also apologies, I haven't been able to get my excess convention prints in my shop yet. Spidey 3 layouts have just been keeping me much too busy. In fact, I likely won't be able to get them up until once those layouts are done (which will...

Spidey Shirt

Happy first day of summer, my friends!

Here's a quick warm-up doodle from this morning before busying my day with more Spidey book 3 layouts. Another sketch for the eventual pinup collection. It can either be just some random redhead wearing a Spidey shirt or Mary Jane. I'll let YOU decide!

Speaking of Spidey, thank you to everyone who picked up Animals Assemble! last week and helped spread the word about it. I'm told it w...

HeroesCon Info & Auction Piece!

Like I mentioned a few posts ago, I'll be at HeroesCon this weekend! It'll be my first time back in six or seven years (I've been having a real hard time doing the math on that).

Every Saturday night the convention holds an annual art auction to help fund the the sho...

The Process of Writing (and Drawing) a Spidey Book!

Hi, my friends! Today is a big day. The book I finished drawing almost a year ago is finally out in the world. Yay!

Hopefully, a lot of you have already had Spider-Man: Animals Assemble! on order and it has successfully shipped to your houses or pull lists. If not, you can pretty much get it ...

Spider-Gwen (again)

Hi all! Happy start of the week. :)

Been a little while since I've shared a new "Happy Monday" drawing for you, so here's another little Spider-Gwen. I know I just drew her, but I've been having trouble getting Across the Spider-Verse out of my head and she's just really fun to draw (still gotta find me some time to doodle up Hobie and Pavitr).

Big post tomorrow! Make sure you have your reading glasses.

Batgirl Supergirl Stickers!

Finally got some fun vinyl stickers in of those two circle drawings of Kara and Babs I drew up a couple months ago. Thought they'd be something fun and different for HeroesCon next week. They look great!

Wanted to make sure you guys got first dibs at them though so I put them up for a limited time in my secret Space Cat Shop. Tried to keep them...

Spidersona! (pew pew)

Hi all!

Not sure where it started (likely due to how incredible the new Spider-Verse movie was), but folks have been sharing their spidersonas again this week. I actually never came up with one. Mostly because it would pretty much be how I normally draw Spidey, only maybe wearing a Star Wars shirt or something. And then realized, well maybe I should just d...

Gwen

Happy Friday, my friends! And happy Spider-Verse weekend as well. Here's a bit of Ghost-Spider / Spider-Gwen / Whatever-Folks-Are-Calling-Her-Now fanart to kickstart the weekend. Looks like we've reached the "characters taking a breather after paint...