Uncanny X-Mas!

This Marvel Subscription ad imposed Santa hats onto Marc Silvestri's X-Men.  I'm not sure what this image was originally produced for, but I'm fairly certain it was used on a coffee mug.  The image at bottom was taken from a comic produced for Marvel's stockholders.  There's some horrible photoshopping on Rogue's head because part of her face and hair was missing in the original publication.

Merry X-Mas, mutants!

Dolmen - Alan Davis

This Alan Davis cover for the Spanish magazine Dolmen was created from the drawing below.

The original art was auctioned by Heritage Auctions:

http://comics.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleNo=812&lotIdNo=40017

Storm and Dave

We close out our weeklong tribute to the late, great Dave Cockrum with this painted Storm, along with a portrait of Dave by Michael Netzer.

Savage Storm & Colossus

 Spotted on Ebay:  I had to post this because I couldn't believe it really existed.  Colossus is inexplicably reimagined as a dinosaur for this X-Men: Savage Land toy set. Bid Now!
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_trksid=p2047675.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.Xx-men+savage+land+storm+colossus.TRS0&_nkw=x-men+savage+land+storm+colossus&_sacat=0&_from=R40

Lifedeath 3

Lifedeath 3, the sequel to Lifedeath (Uncanny X-Men 186) and Lifedeath 2 (Uncanny X-Men 198), has the unique status of being an unpublished X-Men story you can buy.  The art for the story was completed by Barry Windsor-Smith, but rejected by Marvel due to the story's dealing with suicide.  However, years later he reworked the story, replacing Storm with his creator-owned character Adastra from his series Young Gods.  

Here's a link to Barry Windsor-Smith's website, where you can also find a direct link for purchasing the book.

http://www.barrywindsor-smith.com/studio/adastranews.html

Cloudy with A Chance of Storm

An excellent sketch by Philip Tan

Yuletide Greetings!

This hastily colored festive image comes from Comics Interview 76, which I featured in this post:

http://unpublishedxmen.blogspot.com/2012/04/7-days.html

Scroll down for the original black and white art.

X-Treme Unpublished

 X-Treme X-Men had planned to have a series of 6 covers that joined to form one large image.  While Bishop, Sage, Storm, and Cannonball appeared on the covers for issues 20, 21, 22, and 24, the covers for Gambit and Rogue were never published.

Oddly enough, the Gambit cover did appear on the Amazon listing for the 

X-Treme X-Men Volume 6: Intifada trade paperback, although it was not used for the cover.

To date, the Rogue art has not been used anywhere, but finally Salvador Larroca's original art can be seen here!