You may know Chris Daughtry best for his music, or at least for being one of the success stories to come out of FOX’s American Idol. But did you know that he’s also a visual artist who’s dreamed about drawing comics? Well his dreams came through this week on a special variant cover on Batman #50 celebrating the release of Batman v Superman.
It all started when Daughtry (still on Idol at the time) connected with comics artist Jim Lee on MySpace (remember that?). They struck up a friendship over the years and even drew for each other – Lee drew album art for one of Daughtry’s albums, Daughtry contributed a drawing to a charity auction at Lee’s request, etc.
Daughtry’s been a fan of Batman since he was a kid, and his Instagram is rife with comics characters and geek references. So…he admittedly started bugging Lee about the possibilities of drawing something – anything – in comics.
According to an interview with Uproxx, Daughtry says:
I kept talking to him about possibly doing variant covers. I kind of hounded him a bit. We ended up being together at this Halloween party and he asked ‘Would you be interested in doing a cover in March of Batman v. Superman to help promote the movie?’ Of course, I said yes.
So Daughtry began drawing, working around his recording schedule and staying up until all hours. He was so excited as he made progress that he shared bits and pieces as he worked:
Now, the variant covers are out for the world to see. Not bad for a comics newbie!
Congrats to Mr. Daughtry on living the geek dream!
(via The Daily Dot)
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