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Giving Superman the glowy red eyes?
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Drawing characters totally blacked out except for their symbol/cape/whatever in color? I like it, just curious when it started and who did it first?
I don’t know when they started drawing Superman with glowing red eyes, but I’d say the eighties, but that’s a total WAG.
As for drawing silhouetted characters with part of their costume or body in color, I imagine that that’s been around as long as superheroes, but it was probably Frank Miller who worked on Daredevil and Batman: The Dark Knight Returns in the eighties who popularized it.
No, no, no, no, no, no. Carl Barks drew his characters in silhouette, back in the 40s.
Of course, he was mostly drawing ducks (Donald and nephews, Scrooge McDuck, etc) but he used the silhouette technique on various characters for dramatic and humorous effect.
Just to clarify, Supes’s eyes aren’t always red-- just when he’s pissed off or prepping eyejaculate, I mean heat vision. He’s been appearing red-eyed on many covers lately because he has a lot to be pissed about. Its’ actually getting a bit cliché if you ask me…
I have no clue on the silhouette thing.
He is fairly consistantly drawn with red eyes in Lex Luthor: Man of Steel - but that book’s filtered through Luthor’s perceptions.