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.

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One of Bud Root's variant covers, used as a limited cover for CAVEWOMAN: RIPTIDE..
https://amryl.com/index.php?pagename=masseybrothers#riptide

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I love it !

One of those blank comic book covers, that you can have an artist draw in at a comics convention.
And someone had Budd Root draw a one-of-a-kind FF cover (despite that Root has never worked for Marvel).

And a great rendition he did, of an excited and very happy looking Thing, with an always sexy Cavewoman in his arms.

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Another of my favorites, with Frankenstein, "Hide the Frauleins, he's back !"
I think I first saw a version of it in black and white, in PREHISTORIC PIN-UPS 5, July 2007.
The captions and color added in a later version.
https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/Cavewoman-Prehistoric-Pinups/Issue-5?id=124489



Updated links to Budd Root's other CAVEWOMAN series :


CAVEWOMAN: RELOADED 1-6 (reprint of first 1994 series, with 10 pages of expanded new material per issue)
https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/Cavewoman-Reloaded

CAVEWOMAN: RAIN 1-8 (2nd series, 1996-1997)
https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/Cavewoman-Rain

CAVEWOMAN:PANGAEAN SEA series, 1-11 (re-booted new 3rd series, and Root's best series, 1999-2009 )
https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/Cavewoman-Pangaean-Sea/Issue-1?id=94184

CAVEWOMAN JUNGLE TALES series 1-3 (1998, 2003, 2006)
https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/Jungle-Tales-of-Cavewoman

BUDD'S BEAUTIES AND BEASTS 1 and 2 (2005, 2007).
https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/Budd-s-Beauties-Beasts/Issue-1?id=105480

and
CAVEWOMAN: PREHISTORIC PIN-UPS issues 1-7 (2001-2010)
https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/Cavewoman-Prehistoric-Pinups/Issue-5?id=124489



To buy these issues directly from the publisher :
https://www.amryl.com/index.php?pagename=budd

and other series, with Budd Root variant covers, but interior art by others :
https://www.amryl.com/index.php?pagename=cavewomanmain

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A pin-up page from CAVEWOMAN:PANGAEAN SEA 10, Oct 2007, on the inside back cover, where it appears exactly as shown.
Bud Root, at his teasing good-girl art best !
https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/Cavewoman-Pangaean-Sea/Issue-10?id=94185

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This one is Bud Root/Arthur Adams art.
I love how she's riding the diosaur like a wild bronco.


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EDIT: I looked to find this elsewhere to identify it. On Arthur Adams' own website, it's titled as "Jonnie Future", and (my eyes were bleeding, to try and read print that small) done maybe in 2001.
I thought it might be a John Carter:Princess of Mars variant cover, but from what I could find it's not, and is apparently a new character by Arthur Adams.
On Adams' own site, I also saw nothing to indicate it's a Budd Root/Arthur Adams collaboration, just Adams by himself, apparently miscredited where I first saw it.
Here's a slightly larger image, to see the detail :
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/93/6a/8c/936a8c7f97774e8427f275876e790d0c.jpg

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( From Budd Root's 2013 convention sketchbook. )


Channeling the 1933 King Kong movie. And maybe a bit of "Little Annie Fanny" from PLAYBOY.

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( Also from Budd Root's 2013 convenion skechbook. )


Budd Root does a lot of pages and pseudo-covers of Marvel, DC, Warren and other characters. It would be nice to see him do actual covers or interior art for one of those publishers. But after 30 years of comics work, at this point I don't see it happening. I think Budd Root makes a lot of money just doing covers and commission pages, and doesn't have the incentive at this point to even do another CAVEWOMAN story.


But I'd love to be proven wrong, and see it happen.

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( From CAVEWOMAN: PREHISTORIC PIN-UPS 5, July 2007 )


Budd Root seems to have a special affection for classic Hollywood film monsters, the Warren magazines, including Warren's FAMOUS MONSTERS magazine, Silver Age Marvel and DC, the 1933 King Kong movie, the 1949 Mighty Joe Young movie, and 1960's popular culture, including the Beatles.

This is another of many humorous versions of classic Hollywood movie posters he's done, in the pin-ups he includes in various CAVEWOMAN titles.

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The Art of Frank Cho - 20 Year Retrospective book


It was interesting to look through this book on Frank Cho, and how similar Cho's work is to Budd Root's art, a lot of shared spirit.
I've seen Budd Root over the years do collaborative pages with Frank Cho, and Cho has also done several variant covers for CAVEWOMAN issues.

Budd Root has also often mentioned Cho in editorial text pages in his books, they're friends and often cross paths at comics conventions in cities nationwide.
They have a lot of crossover in their playful good girl art, as well as favoring dinosaurs and monsters in their stories and pin-up pages. LIBERTY MEADOWS has some obvious shared themes and content to Budd Root's CAVEWOMAN titles and covers.

I guess you could describe them and several other comics artists such as Adam Hughes, Arthur Adams, and the late Dave Stevens, as representing something of a "school" or a sub-genre of comics illustration. But Frank Cho is, I think, for whatever reason, more prominent and mainstream than Budd Root, though I see them as equally talented.