Hollywood Collectibles Update

After last week’s post about Edinho Maga’s new Rambo sculpture, I was contacted by Mark at Hollywood Collectibles.  Here’s what Mark had to say:

Hey Craig,

I saw the piece about the new Rambo 18″ (actually around 20″ with base), that Edinho has sculpted for us. This isn’t a spec piece by Edinho, we commissioned him to do it & it is going to be produced.  When the time comes we will offer your forum guys a discount again.

You may also be interested to know we also recently picked up the license for both 12″ & 18″ statues from Rocky! This covers all the movies, so we are starting to develop product now. Also a 1:1 lifesize  Rocky bust is in the pipeline too!

Hope all is well.

Best,

Mark

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SZoners, how cool is that?  Now we know for sure that Hollywood Collectibles will be involved, not only with the production of Edinho’s new Rambo sculpture, but Rocky statues as well as a life size Rocky bust. 

I am really glad that Hollywood Collectibles is invovled.  They put out a great product, and have always treated SZoners right.  Keep in mind that the last Rambo statue sold out quickly.    I will keep us  posted on updates about the Rocky and Rambo statues so that SZoners will be first to know when they become available.  As always, thanks to Mark and the rest of the fine folks at Hollywood Collectibles for keeping us in the loop.

Sly Fan Art

SZoner, Israel, runs a Sylvester Stallone site in Brasil. Israel regularly posts artwork from Clodoaldo Rodrigues. That’s a piece by Clodoaldo posted above. If you want to see more of his work or Israel’s site, then click here.

Sly Doesn’t See Dead People

Ernest “Jazzman” Resendes sent in the scan above.  It’s the first panel of a cartoon that he was working on about ten years ago when the “Sixth Sense” was big at the box office. The gag was that Sly would get a call…

Sly’s just kickin back painting clocks in his garage studio when an agent calls to lay out his BLOCKBUSTER idea of reteaming Rocky with Apollo.   Sly rolls his eyes and reminds the idiot that… “Apollo Creed has officialy expired .”
 
Agent: It’s Apollo’s desicion to cross over and train you again. One last time! 
 
Sly: Cross over?
 
Agent: It’ll be BIG. I see dead people! Sly the whole damn world is seeing dead people!

New Stallone Art from Jazzman

It’s been a while since we heard from Ernest “Jazzman” Resendes.   So it was good to hear word that things are well and receive photos of the two pieces of Stallone art he’d recently started on.

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Hey guys,

Sketchin Sly little bit again. I paused this particular frame I love from JOHN RAMBO and tried to capture that energy.

One of the things I’ve always wrestled with as an artist is bringing my love of the rough “unfinished ” drawing into the painting realm. I’m gonna try it I think. I think that Ashley Wood guy sorta blends those to things together very nicely…

The one below I started last night.

I found an amazing Sergio Toppi video on youtube and it inspired me. I might add a comic type caption box, some palm trees and a couple of gawking fans way back in the distance.

The text could be something like… Stallone slipped into a daydream during a stroll through Beverly Hills when the entire idea and cast for The EXPENDABLES came flooding into Sly’s mind.

Or something to that effect.

More sketches and a new domain on the web soon too http://www.theartofjazzman.com/pages/newnewsPG.htm

It’s always great to hear from Jazz.  I’m always impressed with his art and these last two pieces show that he continues to grow as an artist. Keep in touch, Jazz and thanks for sharing your talents.

Sly Fan Art

German Vazquez is a self-taught artist living in the UK, but born in ArgentinaGerman is a Stallone fan and created the piece above [the first time he’s ever drawn Sly] to share with SZoners.  Thanks to German for sharing his talent!