Kinjamin’s Art And Stuff

Happy Filipino American History Month!!! (Or at least.. the tail end of it)

Ok FINALLY new covers! Sorry guys.. I know it’s been a minute, but I didn’t want to just phone in a Ned’s Lola idea.. and to be honest wasn’t getting a whole lot of inspiration from Marvel this year other than the the 2 films these covers are emulating.

Slide 1 - Believe it or not, I only recently caught Across the Spider-Verse.. but once I did, I instantly knew I wanted to do the Royal Dansk bit there. My original idea was that Miles Morales found a container that actually had a single butter cookie and it was causing an anomaly that was destroying the multiverse because it shouldn’t exist. And all the infinite Lolas would be there trying to fix it, I guess? I felt like that idea was just overcomplicating things, so I streamlined it. BTW my favorite part is that Datu Lola (Lola-Lola) straight up stores a conquistador skull in her container. (It’s probably Magellan’s skull because that dumbass dies in all universes)

http://bit.ly/pandecrisis

Back the PANDECRISIS ! (Well ok don’t make it a habit of backing any crisis - but this crisis is ok)

Last drop of Ned’s Lola for ‘22!

- First slide: I honestly have no idea if either of my Grandmas sang this song to me, but I know it well. I distinctly remember my Great Grandma (!) singing it to someone (my Bro I think?) I also wanted to do a tribute to my Grandma Tina, so younger Lola looks slightly more like her.

- Second slide: Wanted to celebrate it being the anniversary of when we first met Lola, so made sure it looked closer to Mary Rivera as possible. Also included the characters that were in her scene. Can you believe I never drew the other two Spider-Men until now? It’s not like people didn’t know they were in the film a month later.. but I was treating it like it was well kept secret (which it wasn’t) - but it’s important they’re here since they were a part of it all.

- Third slide: Uh I know this ‘future cover’ is a gag pointing out our NYE Filipino customs, but this one is a little personal for me. I lost both Grandmas before either could really watch me grow into an adult. I wish they were there when I got married. So at the very least I gave that to Ned (hence Betty being a part of it) (Also future Lola looks more like my Grandma Olimpia - aka ‘Oping’)

Anyways, thanks everyone for going on this Lola journey with me this year! Hope you all have a good holiday!

Ayyy! Take a break from arguing with your Tito about politics and check this small Thanksgiving Lola drop!

Couple things:

1st slide - that particular Seafood City is in National City, SD (near Paradise Hills, where I was raised) - I really like the idea that Namor told Ned’s family he needs to return home, so they flew him across country only to bring him to my old hood.

2nd slide - hope I don’t offend any races that love casserole. But also… why though? And for the record, my Grandma actually did cook turkey for us on Thanksgiving, but it felt weird having it on there so I changed it to Lechon (but you can tell it used to be a turkey)

Doing small Ned’s Lola posts for the holidays! This one is for Fil-Am History Month & Halloween!

(Sorry I’m late to post here on tumblr)

Guest starring #TheRealestBayani and Kuya/Lumpiaman/ Mark M from the @lumpiamovie <<<don’t forget to check out #LumpiaWithAVengeance if it’s playing in your city this weekend!

- 1st slide - So this evolved a great deal, I initially wanted to transform the Jeopardy meme into a cover and keep it in the MCU as like a Shang-Chi speaking out for us. But Ike has actually never been in a Marvel film (as far as I know), so I brought his Suicide Squad character over. At which point I was like - well if I’m going to do that, I should bring over any Filipina/o characters from the DCU. Hence Ella Jay Basco (Cassandra) and Ivory Aquino (Alysia) But then I was like, something didn’t feel right - well if this is a multiverse thing, I felt like I needed to ask for Kuya and Bayani to be there. And, of course, the usuals are here - Jacob B (Ned), Ned’s Lola, Ginger G (Nikki), Dave B (Drax), Yssa (Sonya), Eugene C (Casey), Jane R(Ayla), Hailee(Kate), and Iris(Wave)!

[UPDATE - prints are up on Artstation but I’m holding off on putting them on Redbubble at the moment because I feel like straight thievery is going on on there]

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Ok so I was dead wrong about not making any more 'drops' of these. I kinda had an idea to tie into "Into The Spiderverse" and these 3 covers came out of it. Some notes:

The 'Kain Na' cover is like my very first idea from day 1, because 100% in the actual MCU Peter Parker has been to Ned's house and Lola has cooked him adobo or pancit. I just expanded the idea a little because she would feed the whole Spider-Fam.. notice MJ must have been reprimanded for wasting pandesal so anytime Lola is nearby, she shows her she's eating one.

The Lolaverse covers: (Props to family and friends for all the helpful suggesitons!) Here are the list of multiversal Lolas:

Lola Prime (The MCU Lola we know from Spider-Man NWH)

Lola-Lola (aka Tribal Warrior Datu Lola) < my favorite, along with..

Lolo – The gender swapped variant is full-on my Grandpa Julio. From the same universe as Gwen / Spider-Woman

Alola-1 (aka Robo Lola) - from the same universe as Peni Parker Lola Vuitton

Lola Supreme (aka Ancient One Lola)

Lolabao – (aka Carabao Lola) from the same universe as Spider-Ham

TentacLola (aka Squid Lola)

Lola Toons (aka Black and White cartoon Lola)

Lola Noir (same universe as Spider-Man Noir -- obviously.)

The No Shoes ad – is in direct response to that ridiculous WSJ article that doesn’t deserve a repost. But this ad is also guest starring @angielanikelly

#So the bad news is, this is my last big ‘drop’ of Ned’s Lola covers. My schedule is busier these days so it takes me longer to make these. I’ll still do them, but they’ll probably trickle in one or two at a time here on Insta.

The good news is, included with the usual 5 covers, I did a bonus one-page comic ‘ad’ page.. reminiscent of the ones Marvel and DC would put in their issues, advertising Hostess products. It’s a real thing, you should look them up and see how ludicrous they were.

Droppin’ the new covers for The Further Adventures of Ned’s Lola ! The Carnage one is my absolute favorite - it’s like my Magnum Opus of Lola art! I have serious doubts that I’ll top it. Still have some very slight SPOILERS for Spider-Man: No Way Home on a couple of these, fyi. Also, similar to what I did last time, two of the “issue” numbers point to the birth years of my Lolas (1923 and 1928)

 Prints up in my Artstation: https://www.artstation.com/kinjamin/prints

Slight SPOILER for Spider-Man: No Way Home on the green cover, so don't read the caption if you haven't seen it. But dude.. it's been more than 3 weeks.