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The Art of Rex ( 10-4 )

Rex (http://www.blogger.com/profile/18337327013214134390), aka 10-4 (http://amaz0ns.com/option,com_smf/Itemid,135/action,profile/u,5339/), is an artist that needs more love from the community.  To the female muscle enthusiast, he's the famous creator of Mrs. Armstrong and Ms. Fantasy for LH Art (http://www.lhart.com).  To the rest of the world he's a Small Press Comic creator.  I think if he realized how much we like his artwork that he'd post it more frequently.  So, I say unto thee, Rex: Your stuff is awesome! Please draw more muscle art!

Small Press Syndicate

Up until a few years ago, Rex had maintained a forum over at Small Press Syndicate (http://www.smallpresssyndicate.com/Rextra/Rextra.html).  Fortunately, the gallery (http://www.smallpresssyndicate.com/Rextra/rex-gallery/Rex-Gallery.html) is still available and you'll find some really beautiful pieces, as well as a short sequential art story featuring Ms. Fantasy.  The Ms. Fantasy story is pretty funny, and should also appeal to the female muscle growth fans out there. Here's a selection of my favorites from his gallery along with the Ms. Fantasy comic:

(http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a302/elee0228/cardio-8.jpg) (http://www.smallpresssyndicate.com/Rextra/rex-gallery/cardio-8.jpg) (http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a302/elee0228/hands-on-hips-6.jpg) (http://www.smallpresssyndicate.com/Rextra/rex-gallery/hands-on-hips-6.jpg) (http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a302/elee0228/big-guns-of-zim.jpg) (http://www.smallpresssyndicate.com/Rextra/rex-gallery/big-guns-of-zim.jpg)

(http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a302/elee0228/f-cover.jpg) (http://www.smallpresssyndicate.com/Rextra/rex-gallery/f-cover.jpg) (http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a302/elee0228/fantasy-first-page.gif) (http://www.smallpresssyndicate.com/Rextra/rex-gallery/fantasy-first-page.gif) (http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a302/elee0228/fantasy-second-page.gif) (http://www.smallpresssyndicate.com/Rextra/rex-gallery/fantasy-second-page.gif) (http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a302/elee0228/fantasy-third-page.gif) (http://www.smallpresssyndicate.com/Rextra/rex-gallery/fantasy-third-page.gif) (http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a302/elee0228/wholepage.gif) (http://www.smallpresssyndicate.com/Rextra/rex-gallery/wholepage.gif) (http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a302/elee0228/ms-fantasy.gif) (http://www.smallpresssyndicate.com/Rextra/rex-gallery/ms-fantasy.gif) (http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a302/elee0228/fantasy-last-page.gif) (http://www.smallpresssyndicate.com/Rextra/rex-gallery/fantasy-last-page.gif)

Fett (http://fettcom.deviantart.com) made an epilogue to this story and it's available at Fett's DeviantART scraps section (http://fettcom.deviantart.com/art/Ms-Fantasy-2-page-Epilogue-95335719) as well as in REX's gallery (http://www.smallpresssyndicate.com/Rextra/rex-gallery/Fet-ms-fantasy-pages-7-8.gif).

Gasoline Powered Youth

He blogs along with Red Silver (http://www.blogger.com/profile/15176514642798870216) and Tourist (http://www.blogger.com/profile/08955222724469244704) over at Gasoline Powered Youth (http://gpy.blogspot.com) on Blogspot.  Here are some of the cool images you'll find there:

(http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a302/elee0228/AI-Rough-1.gif) (http://gpy.blogspot.com/2008/01/ai-roughs.html) (http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a302/elee0228/big-soft-blond.gif) (http://gpy.blogspot.com/2008/03/actual-fem-muscle-this-time.html) (http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a302/elee0228/new-ms-fantasy-sketches.gif) (http://gpy.blogspot.com/2008/07/actual-fem-muscle-for-this-post.html)

LH Art

(http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a302/elee0228/AA11.jpg) (http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a302/elee0228/AA11.jpg)

As mentioned earlier, Rex has some stuff published by LH Art (http://www.lhart.com), and you'll find some of his beautiful artwork in the following paper or PDF comics:

155N Muscle Pinups
LH-Art Comics & Stories #14
LH-Artist Folio #21
LH-Artist Folio #25
All Amazon #9
All Amazon #11 ( Cover )
All Growth #7 ( Ms Fantasy )

Some of the work that appeared above is now available online at LH Art (http://www.lhart.com) with a membership:

Mrs Armstrong On Top
Mrs Armstrong Works Out ( Parts 1 & 2 originally from All Amazon #9, 11 )

In conclusion, Rex's artwork rocks and the world needs more of it.  Please show your support and affection for this great artist by posting to this thread.

Journal Entry (http://elee0228.deviantart.com/journal/20057189/)

Oh thats who he is  Very nice work!
Keep it up!!

The Ms Fantasy thing was very funny. The humor and style of the 2 color pages reminded me a lot of Liberty Meadows (oh, I miss that comic).

I hope to one day grow up and be Rex.

Ms Fantasy is so fucking good.

I recall fondly the Jogger. :)

I also wanted to do a story for Ms. Coco Nutt.  Never got around to it.  Maybe over the weekends to come....

I love Miss Fantasy.
About Rex,i visited his forum and page years before.
I hope see more art of this very beauty maiden again! :D

I'm looking at this Thread and I'm saying to myself, "holly $hit. Did I actually draw all that?" Some of this stuff I barely remember doing. It's like being presented with incontrovertible proof of a life wasted  ;D

As for the future... Not a speck of fem muscle for at least a few months as I complete this...  :P

(http://www.smallpresssyndicate.com/temp-work/SmallPress/PTS-light-Pencils-Page-1.jpg)

A full comic consisting of nothing but cellulite, video games and Dew.
...Or more proof of a life wasted.  ;D

I want to join in and thank Rex for his great artwork, I love it. I hope you can make time for more in the future, there are many fans waiting.

I'm looking forward to the comic Rex. I really enjoyed the Ranter special.

Rex to me in FMG, is like Geese Howard from SNK.

Irreplaceable, and truly memorable. :P

Nice to see new art from you though man! XD

One day I hope to gow up and be Fett. ;D

I'm glad to hear it. I still have a few copies of this raving insanity laying around.

(http://www.smallpresssyndicate.com/Ranter-cover-small.jpg)

Okay... I have no idea what this Ms. Coco Nutt is.  ???  I don't recall ever creating a character like that... which doesn't mean much because I can barely recall doing Mrs. Armstrong who was somewhat popular.   ;)

When I did Ms. Fantasy I was sure that it was a total failure for LH-Art. (At the time I was utterly exhausted form the worst case of insomnia I had ever had, that I could barely think straight) but I never heard a peep about what anyone thought about of it. I only ever heard about Armstrong and a modest string of requests for a more dominating and aggressive version of her. I'm guessing that it's still an albatross around Larry's neck.  :-\

Ye$ $how me more appreciation. I need$ it $o badly.  ;D

Seriously, I appreciate the effort. I'm just committed to other projects outside the realm of Fem Muscle.

I'm sure if you opened yourself up to commissions from the fem muscle community that you'd have no shortage of takers.  I, for one, am definitely interested. 

I think the reaason that Ms. Fantasy is not spoke of to much is because she only has a few pages about her. there is also the fact that she is only in the femuscle form for 24 hours and then will revert back to the mainstreem picture of beauty so that she can do her job of enticing the masses more easily. Not to many guys like hugely muscled strength goddess.  ;D Where as Armstrong had quite a few pages of material. Both are awesome but one story was by its very nature ment to only be a short story.

I also think it's because Ms Fantasy isn't a masturbatory aid. :/

Well i like the story very much, The expression she has when she finds out you sold your soul for a cheese sandwhich,
I like to see her more,Maybe big boob expension,or become other fantasy females, to take souls.
The charater has great potential.

I'm too expensive... and lazy... and hard to work with... But mostly too expen$ive.  ;D

True... But derivative works might qualify.  ;)

(http://www.smallpresssyndicate.com/Rextra/rex-gallery/work-in-progress-1.jpg)

I dunno, I think your rates may be a bargain compared to Fett's rates after GBP-USD currency rates get factored in... :) Would you mind PM'ing me with your rates or just posting them here?

I don't don't consider anything under $200.00 even if my art isn't worth that much. 100% payment up front, no refunds. No redraws. No picking from a series of thumbnails. That costs extra and is paid up front. I retain reproduction rights, and any ancillary rights. Depending on what you want, prices go up from there.

Oh, and in the "hard to work with" category, some subjects are off limits. Turnaround times are measured in weeks if I don't have other obligations, to months if I do have other obligations. I can tell you right now that I'd have to stop work on my comic to accommodate any commissions, and I have a loose deadline to meet on the comic, so even if you're jaw hasn't hit on the ground yet, you'll still need to wait several months until I can free up the time.

Their was a really good thread about commissions on the Press Oblivion forum that I took part in and details the reasons why I do things the way I do... Sadly the forum portion seems to have gone down today The main site is here...

http://www.pressoblivion.com/ (http://www.pressoblivion.com/)

  ...and if the forum comes back up I'll look for that thread and post a link to it.

Here is the link. Read it if you're curious. You'll probably need to logged in to see it.

http://www.pressoblivion.com/_PHPbb/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=517 (http://www.pressoblivion.com/_PHPbb/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=517)

Interesting read. Even given all that, I think I may be interested one day.  I'll need to save up for a bit in order to afford that type of a commission though.  I understand why you say no redraws, but does that mean no tweaks on pics either?  It would be uncool to lay down the cash for a drawing and not be happy with it.  Not saying that would happen, I'm just concerned about that possibility.  Curious if you've got any commission samples on your page?

I've always been a fan of Rex, and I add much deserved praise to the chorus. I need to buy his print comics.

I don't tweak the images either, unless extra $ is paid. I've been down that road several times on educational cartoons and interoffice headers and decorative forms. It's massively time consuming, and the requested tweaking never ends.

I have zero commission samples in the gallery. All my commissions have been non fem muscle, and I stopped doing them over 10 years ago.

I can understand your concern for paying out a lot of money and not being happy with the result. Sadly I've been on the opposite side of barricades where I've done literately hundreds of dollars in billable work and gotten exactly nothing, as the client, at the last possible moment, decided he/she didn't want the image. I've probably lost close to $1,500.00 on such jobs. As a result I'm not inclined to take on more commissions. I'd rather loose money on my own projects then on the project of someone else.

Thank you very much. I love the praise. Just be forewarned that all the comics I have done outside of LH-Art are basically non fem muscle. This is about as close to fem muscle as you will get in the post LH-Art Rex comic.

(http://members.aol.com/fantasytheater/catalog/gloricvr.jpg)

Story and colors by small my press pal JKC. You can view it free here. http://www.webcomicsnation.com/jkcarrier/glorianna/series.php?view=archive&chapter=25668 (http://www.webcomicsnation.com/jkcarrier/glorianna/series.php?view=archive&chapter=25668)

Rex pretty much has my thoughts.

I get paid upfront, and I take time. I don't tweak images and I don't like to be told what to draw beyond the basic concept. Everyone I've done a commission for, they go in blind, not knowing the shape of what they'll get. And every time they're happy (to my knowledge). It's because I probably put more thought into the commission than the person asking. And because I'm the fucking artist and I've been hired for that reason, not because I'm a puppet.

Thankfully, not only has everyone who's paid for my work put up with me taking forever, but they've liked them and not fucked me around once. Rex, it seems, has been fucked around, so he's a lot more pissed off about it, where as I'm a lot more polite.

But my thoughts are pretty much the same on the work ethic.

The other problem I have, which I'm sure Rex and I share, is that I can't be arsed to draw masturbatory aids for people. I'm sure I'd be raking in the cash if all I drew were big muscle women growing bigger and getting naked. But I have little time or desire for that.

Basically, what I've discovered is that if someone pays for my work, they'll have no end of hassle. I'll be slow and demanding. I'm a complete hassle to work with. But - and this is my redeeming feature - I'll do the best I can at the time. Every one of my commissions I've done, every one I planned to do, my best work that I could do.

Rex and I are a lot alike, it's just Rex doesn't have his thumb up his ass. Good for him. :)

Yeah! What Fett said!  8)

Rex,
Sorry there was not much feedback on the Ms Fantasy story.  I remember it as your 'Burn-out' story. (I think the last one you did for LH-ART right?) Personally I thought it was funny, well drawn and interesting in the concept of the transformation being a painful one to go through.  Anyway, just a belated thankyou and that I don't want you to think it was an "albatross about my neck" sort of thing.  I was losing money already on the printed books by that time.  Take Care.
Larry

Not wishing to pry, Fett and Rex, but do you find yourself idly drawing your own "masturbatory aids"? I ask because, as an artistic dunce I wonder how fecund the artistic amongst us are when it comes to producing work for themselves rather than a comission for someone else.

Yeah, it was the last comic I did for you. At that point I was suffering from insomnia so bad I could barely think. It lasted for over 3 years. Was a very low time for me. I remember drawing Ms fantasy in a darkened room with sunglasses on because my eyes were so sensitive to light it physically hurt to look at a normally lit page.

I'm glad to hear that it didn't tank your sales. At least any more then the usual drop in demand for print comics.

The number of masturbatory aids would Amaze You!  ;D

... seriously, it's pretty rare. Maybe a crude doodle every few months. Almost never a finished drawing. Basically a doodle that I could bang out in a few minutes. Would make the stuff I post here look polished.

Your artwork is really good, I've seen it here and there through the years, and its really very well done.  If you ever think you might want to work on a project and would like to discuss your rates, feel free to send me a PM and we'll see if we can't work something out.  :)  In any case, again great stuff, and I look forward to seeing what else you may post in the future.

I don't think 'fecund' is a real word.

*notices spellchecker doesn't highlight 'fecund'... but it does highlight 'spellchecker'*

*looks up meaning*

"waste matter discharged from the intestines through the anus; excrement."

Whuh?

YOU'RE A FECUND, CPBELL! Huh?

As for masturbation - it's why I began drawing in the first place.

From www.dictionary.com (http://www.dictionary.com):

fe·cund   Pronunciation[fee-kuhnd, -kuhnd, fek-uhnd, -uhnd] adjective 1. producing or capable of producing offspring, fruit, vegetation, etc., in abundance; prolific; fruitful: fecund parents; fecund farmland. 
2. very productive or creative intellectually: the fecund years of the Italian Renaissance. 


I'm obviously going for the second meaning here!

You and your *facts*.

I'm pretty sure it means what I think it means.

I'm pretty sure you're a creative lunatic genius madman, but I can't prove it. ;D

Right now I'm bogged down with other projects... but if you fill a wheelbarrow so full of 100 dollar bills that you strain your back trying to move it as offering offer it to me, then I could be persuaded to drop everything and take a serious look at your project.  ;D

I think I'm missing some things in the bibliography section of the original post in this thread. 


Can Larry or Rex confirm if there were other appearances of Rex's artwork?

It's been so long even I can't recall what I did.  :-\

I know for sure a Ms. Fantasy comic is in there because it was my last LH-Art gig. I'm pretty sure one of those All Amazon books had some of my work... but beyond that, I really can't recall.  :-\

I can add LH Comix & Stories #13 to the list(FIrst appearance of Mrs. Armstrong), Also Folio 20  had one or two pieces.  That is all that comes to me right now.

Mrs. Amstrong was one of the Best comic I ever read...

An All Time Favorite. Without doubt...

You mean you had artwork on the interior of one of the All Amazon books, not just the cover?  I think the Ms Fantasy one is already listed (All Growth #7).  Thanks for the input, it's helpful.


I didn't come across those because they aren't on the online store.  I can't seem to edit the original topic so I'll have to update this in the corresponding The Art of Rex (10-4) (http://elee0228.deviantart.com/journal/20057189/).  If you can think of any more, please let me know.

Thanks Solarian. Glad you liked it.

I wish I had actually saved those comp copies I got. I'd be able to answer your question better. I've really only ever did 3 things for LH-Art. The Arm Strong comics. The Fantasy comic, and a smattering of covers and pinups. For some reason I'm thinking an issue of All Amazon had Armstrong in it... But apparently I must have early onset Alzheimer's because my memory isn't really helping me much.  :-[  ;)  ;D

You had your two major Mrs Armstrongs in ALL AMAZON #10 & 11  + the covers "Mrs Armstrong Works-Out"  in #10 and "Mrs Armstrong On Top" in #11.  #10 is SOLD-OUT, but still have copies of #11. VIncent Rose has colored these stories and they are available as PDF files from the online catalog(Section 9 is the PDF file section BTW).  Hope this helps.
LH

Thanks, LH.  Was the artwork for the cover for All Amazon #11 the same as the artwork on the first page of the Mrs Armstrong Works Out PDF?

I'm just gonna have to take your word for it, cuz I sure can't remember.   :-[   :)

Sorry for lapse.  The All Amazon book covers that Rex did are not reproduced in the PDF versions, just the colored story pages are there.
LH

Thanks for the great art Rex

Wow. This thread is still alive. Thanks for the complement. I appreciate it.

As for Rex Art, it's still playing second fiddle to my small press (Totally non fem muscle) comics projects which I have built a modest website for. Anyone who is curious can take a look here.
http://www.fictargraphics.com/ (http://www.fictargraphics.com/)