Jerry DeCaire, one of the artists for Wolverine and Deadpool, will present a real-time drawing performance from 5 to 8 p.m.Thursday, Jan. 15, at Dorr Township Library.
DeCaire’s Deadpool was featured in Marvel’s Secret Defenders series and they have become very popular in contemporary trade and hardcover publications such as Deadpool: The Circle Chase (Epic Collection), Deadpool Beginnings Omnibus, and others.
DeCaire’s most recent published illustrative work is X-Force Omnibus: VOL. 1 (Dec 2024), EPIC Collection: Trade Paperback, Hawkeye: Shafted (Dec 2024), X-Men: X-Tinction Agenda Omnibus (2024), EPIC Collection: Trade Paperback, Thor: Hell on Earth (2023), and the Hardcover Wolverine Omnibus VOL 3(2023).
DeCaire started with a bang in 1991 when he was assigned an illustrative gig for the biggest comic in comics, X-Men Annual #15. It was his first professional assignment which was later reprinted in various trades. After that, he was offered Wolverine #47 which then morphed into “The Essential Wolverine Volumes #1–7”, “Wolverine: Weapon X Unbound”, and finally, the mammoth compilation, “Wolverine Omnibus Vol 3” in 2023. It comes with three covers offered exclusively in LC and Michael Coming.
DeCaire’s “The Mighty Thor Annual #19” (2023), has resurrected in Epic Collection’s, “Thor: Hell on Earth.” What’s most inspiring about this particular Thor trade, is that the artist’s name is right next to the artist he most admired when he was growing up as a kid, “The Mighty John Buscema.”
Stan Lee had dubbed Big John the “Michelangelo of the comics” because of his classical approach to drawing. John’s work has perennially served as an inspiration to DeCaire and to many other young artists in publications ranging from Spiderman, Conan, The Silver Surfer, Fantastic Four, The Avengers, and even Stan Lee’s and John Buscema’s “How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way,”which can be found in any neighborhood library.
Another highlight in DeCaire’s career is when he was featured in an eight-page article, “Why Paint in China’s prolific, Fantasy Art Magazine. DeCaire was featured as an exemplary artist from the West.
DeCaire has illustrated a lot of other stuff for Marvel, including Iron Man and Dr. Strange, and other character lines for independent publishing houses like Cisco-Kid, The Phantom, Green Hornet, Werewolf and Vampire books, and other cool and icons in American literature and folklore. He is currently illustrating his very own brainchild, “The Which-When Man” through a release date has not been set.
DeCaire is also writing and illustrating his own How-To-Draw book, a Bible adaptation, and an esoteric take on consciousness in “The Other You”.
DeCaire is currently presenting at conventions, retail stores, libraries, schools, and art centers across the country in small self-designed, performance/workshop. It showcases the recent science and mathematics and the immersive experience, in real-time.
This program dubbed “The Superhero in Real-Time,” has been presented to some of the biggest comic-cons in the US including, Wizard World (Chicago), The Dragon-Con in Atlanta which boasted over 80,000 fans in attendance, Detroit’s (Now) Motor City Comic-Con with 50,000 fans in attendance, and Steel City Comic-Con just outside Pittsburgh. The best part of the conventions is when the artist gets to hang with some of the coolest movie stars and TV personalities on the planet, like Bryce Dallas Howard of Jurassic World, Anne Potts of Ghostbusters, Danny Glover of Lethal Weapon, and Kathryn Newton of the vampire film, Abigail and the long-running television series, Supernatural.
DeCaire has warmly greeted by at least half-a-million fans from Texas to Alaska, and New York to Los Angeles and many communities in between. He signs and gives away his demo-drawings and autographed, full-color prints to select patrons at every event.
Date for this event?
Jan. 15, a tHursday.