BossLogic's Avengers art sold at auction for $ 68,000

On: January 31, 2021

The pre-apocalyptic "The Last Shawarma" went a little more expensive than the one where half of the heroes are missing.

The works of the Internet artist BossLogic successfully participated in the auction at the Nifty Gateway online auction. The site has realized two works by the artist dedicated to the last parts of The Avengers.

The first work - The Last Shawarma, "The Last Shawarma", parodying "The Last Supper" by Leonardo da Vinci: it depicts the Avengers before meeting Thanos. The second work, The Last Shawarma, Snapped, shows the heroes after the Mad Titan destroyed half of the living creatures.

In total, $ 68383 was paid for the work. The Last Shawarma sold for $ 35,000, its extended version sold for $ 33,383. The bidding went quite fiercely, the starting prices for both jobs were much lower. Interestingly, in the end, both works were bought by the same buyer - Kanosei Ventures.

In the last minutes of the auction, we thought, "The final round is on." Sometimes you don't need a very deep reason to buy a piece of art: we're just huge fans of the Marvel universe, of you and your team.

Who is BossLogic - the artist who turns actors into superheroes

How an internet artist became a Marvel person. You've probably seen the drawings showing what Kraven the Hunter might look like in the MCU, or how actress Holly Bailey would look like the Little Mermaid. The Internet artist BossLogic, who is gradually becoming more famous, is responsible for all these transformations.

BossLogic still posts collages on Twitter and Instagram, but he also draws posters for Marvel Studios and other major companies. Inverse journalists met with the artist and found out how he managed to get the attention of Marvel and how BossLogic's work is structured.

In fact, the artist's name is Kode Abdo, he lives in Australia. Kode has been drawing his collages for several years, but for a long time, they only attracted the attention of ordinary fans and news outlets writing about films and TV shows.

As a rule, the artist's work is topical: usually, Abdo sees another casting rumor or an official announcement of an actor's participation in a project, then takes Photoshop and quickly creates a collage showing how an actor might look in a particular role. This is smart - this is how the artist always stays in trend and heard.

Kode himself says that he prefers to implement his own ideas, rather than well-known rumors. In addition, he closely follows trends: if a picture with a certain hero comes out soon, the artist will paint him more often.

When Spider-Man: Far From Home was in the spotlight, I drew a lot on the subject. Soon everyone will be interested in Joker, so I'll have a bunch of Joker art.

Abdo says that he always wanted to be an artist - even as a child, he was sure that sooner or later he would paint. It all started seriously in 2009 when a friend introduced Kode to Photoshop. Since then, the artist has painted anything from flyers to pictures for MySpace profiles.

Kode decided to engage in fanart only in 2015; the artist recalls that his first object of interest was the series "The Flash". Then Kode switched to Strela, then to Daredevil. Now the artist sees his work as a way to help fans.

People complained that they couldn't imagine an actor as a specific character. This made me somehow uneasy because I somehow can imagine him. Well, I was trying to show how it might look. My work is not meant for the industry, but for the fans.

Gradually things began to gain momentum, so I continued to act in the same vein. Over time, I began to draw my own vision [of certain characters], this is the most interesting thing.

One of the first celebrities to personally contact Abdo was Dwayne Johnson; the artist recalls that this happened about a year ago.

In short, Skala contacted me and asked me to make art with Black Adam and Superman. I remember he wrote something like, "I want you to draw Superman knocking the shit out of Black Adam."

I was also surprised: “This is somehow strange. Why don't you want it to be the other way around? " [Dwayne Johnson will play Black Adam in the movie of the same name]

Not long before this, another important event occurred that influenced Abdo's career: the artist met the Rousseau brothers. It turned out that the directors of The Avengers liked some of his work; Kode was invited to visit Marvel Studios, but it was too late to collaborate on Infinity War.

But the artist was able to take part in the promotional campaign for the Final: commissioned by Marvel Studios and the Russo brothers, Abdo drew several official arts with the heroes of the film. In particular, a poster by Kode was used to promote the painting.

Then the Jimmy Fallon show with Jake Gyllenhaal happened, during which the actor was shown one of Abdo's works. During interviews, Gyllenhaal and Fallon constantly confused the artist's nickname - in the end, BossLogic became Nikolai Basladzhik.

But there were also pluses. Gyllenhaal found out about Coda's existence, contacted him directly, and commissioned a poster for the Broadway production of Sea Wall / A Life, where he plays the lead role. Since then, Abdo says, he has had several more major projects that cannot yet be told.

Most of Kode's drawings are still done in Photoshop, using a Wacom Cintiq tablet or - sometimes - a mouse. It takes an artist about two to four hours to create a collage for Twitter, usually, Abdo does not work out the details too much, but only gives the general direction of his idea.

Full-fledged art and posters are a completely different matter: here, the artist says, work can take from eight to thirty hours. In the future, Abdo plans to open his own company; he now has a 3D graphics partner and over time Kodee hopes to hire a whole team.

I want to be an idea generator and put together such a team so that together we can set the highest standards for the industry. Nothing like that yet, but I'm working on it. I think we will be able to create something like this in the next three years.

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