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Mark Pennington’s Jack Carter

Craig / May 30, 2010 / 2010, Craig's Sly Art, Get Carter

Mark Pennington graduated from the Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art in 1985. Upon graduation Mark became a toy designer at Hasbro. Mark created designs for the G.I. Joe line of action figures including a Rocky Balboa GI Joe that never saw production! Mark’s first work as an inker in the comic book industry was for SQP on Judge Dredd!

When I started collecting original sketches of Sly, Mark was one of the first artists that I approached. I was excited to get this Rambo head sketch from him. Earlier this month I posted Mark’s take on Sly as Rambo.

Today we have Mark’s take on Sly as an older Jack Carter. Although we’ll never get a sequel to Get Carter, and it is not a perfect film, Get Carter remains one of my favorite Stallone movies. Sly was perfect as the “bad brother” — the man who knew that he’d taken the wrong path and saw a chance at redemption by finding his brother’s killer and keeping his niece and sister-in-law safe. So I thought it would be cool to get Mark to draw Sly as Jack Carter, but with some more years on him… sort of like Clint Eastwood’s performance in Unforgiven. I couldn’t be happier with the result!

Edinho Maga’s Cobra

Craig / May 30, 2010May 30, 2010 / 2010, Fan Art

SZoner, Edinho Maga is back with some photos of a Cobra statue he is working on. This is something that he’s doing for himself.

For those new to the StalloneZone, Edinho Maga is quite a success story. Back in March of 2008, Edinho sent me some photos of a Rambo sculpt that he did. I posted a write-up about Edinho’s art.

Edinho’s talent was obvious and it wasn’t long before Hollywood Collectibles worked out a deal for the sculpture to be produced by their company! Since then Edinho and Hollywood Collectibles have teamed on other Rambo and Rocky projects. And to think that it all started because of a post on the StalloneZone!

Thanks to Edinho Maga for once again sharing his talents. Also thanks to Mark and the cool folks at Hollywood Collectibles for providing discounts for SZoners buying the Rocky statue [details here] and the Rambo statue [details here].

The Expendables Graphic Novel

Craig / May 30, 2010 / 2010, Expendables

That’s a scan of the art that appeared with the listing for the fourth issue of The Expendables prequel comic mini-series written by Chuck Dixon with artist Esteve Polls and cover artist Lucio Parrillo.

The Expendables trade paperback is scheduled to be published the same month. It will combine all four issues of the comic and is available for pre-order here.

Tango & Cash Again?

Craig / May 30, 2010 / 2010, Tango & Cash

SZoner, Gerardo Moreno wanted to make sure that we knew that Tango & Cash is now available on blu-ray.

The funny thing is that earlier this week rumors started appearing that Sly and Kurt Russell were interested in doing a Tango & Cash II. At this point, they are just rumors but the timing couldn’t have been better.

Rambo on Lava [Final Version]

Craig / May 30, 2010May 30, 2010 / 2010, Fan Art

SZoner, Stefano Rondinella is an artist and Sylvester Stallone fan from Sicily. We’ve featured Stefano’s art before and he’s back again with his final version Sly as Rambo painted on stone lava of Etna! You can see the “in-progress” photo here. Thanks to Stefano for sharing his talents with us.

The Expendables Ghost Teaser

Craig / May 30, 2010May 30, 2010 / 2010, Expendables

Here’s a link to The Expendables teaser trailer that started running earlier this week.

There is also another shorter teaser that I saw running on a Movie Trailers On-Demand channel through Bright House. It was very short and consisted of Sly‘s voice with still shots of the cast. I have not been able to find it anywhere else. When I do, I’ll post a link. Some fans are calling it the “Ghost Trailer” because Sly refers to The Expendables as ghosts in it, and no one can find it!

SZoner Fan Art!

Craig / May 30, 2010 / 2010, Fan Art

SZoner, Renato Mundt from Sao Paulo City, sent in the scan above of his take on Rocky vs Drago. I thought it was perfectly timed since both Rocky and Drago were just named two of The 20 Most Memorable Sports Movie Characters.

Renato Mundt

Sao Paulo City

Sly a Starr Client

Craig / May 30, 2010 / 2010, Celebs

The Huffington Post published a piece called Ken Starr’s Celebrity Clients from Uma to Sly in photos. You can see it here.

Rocky & Drago: Most Memorable Sports Characters

Craig / May 30, 2010 / Uncategorized

The BleacherReport.com recently posted their choices for The 20 Most Memorable Sports Movie Characters.

There is no surprise that Rocky Balboa made the list. Here’s what they had to say…

Sylvester Stallone’s legendary boxing role is one of the most memorable roles in any film in any genre. It wasn’t Stallone’s first role, but it is the job that launched him into an epic Hollywood star.

The interesting addition to the list is that Ivan Drago also made the cut! Here’s why…

Stallone’s Soviet counterpart in Rocky IV makes the list because he is one of the most infamous antagonists in sports film history.

Dolph Lundgren, who played Drago, fit the bill perfectly as the intimidating, steroid-infused, Red boxer through which the Patriotic Rocky sought vengeance.

You can read the whole piece here.