Vintage Wingnut T-Shirt

Haven't found the Man Ray shirt yet but ran across the Wingnut one. Luckily I didn't wear this shirt so it's in mint shape.

Batty Bad Guys

Courtesy of Mr. Wolf, a villainous Screwloose and a very rotund Wingnut make plans for world domination and then try to brainwash Zach. No Mutanimals here.

Mutanimals Night Shift

Above we have animation designs for that dynamic duo, Wingnut and Screwloose.

The Death's-head moth mutant is from Dimension X's Mothro Galaxy. His name is Lunawing and he has been ordered to Earth by Maligna, who plans on utilizing this looney, nocturnal nemesis to work the night shift in Earth's destruction. Lunawing has the ability, if he so chooses, to bring life or death by encasing a being within a cocoon
of sewn supernatural silk .


One interesting thing I've always heard from fans of Wingnut is how inspired they are by his story.

As a young bat boy Wingnut was keenly aware that he was different from other bat people physically.
Enduring painful teasing, rude remarks and name calling from the fellow bat children gave him a poor self-image.
But over time, and with the help of his prosthetic wings, he overcame his physical handicap to become a true superhero. This, it seems, is what has endeared a multitude of fans to the alien bat man.


All this from a comic book character. Cool.

Wingnut.2

Back in the day I tried to keep eveything I could that had anything to do with anything I created. I still have these pics of the original sculpture of Wingnut that Playmates gave to me. Playmates also gave me the original paint master of Wingnut and it's here in a case, on a shelf, in my studio. Playmates sculpts were so intense back then. Best in the biz.

Although I created the batty hero it was Murph who gave him his schizoid personality and created his tragic origin on Huano. Murph also, quite brilliantly I might add, created the weird, symbiotic relationship between Wingnut and the mosquito, Screwloose.

Wingnut

The cool thing about a blog is that you can see stuff you might never have seen before. Such as this very early Wingnut conceptual art. Bearing quite a resemblence to a certain caped crusader. Some of these elements showed up in the Ralston-Purina mini comics where Wingnut made his debut as a bad guy.


Wingnut TM & © Mirage Studios