Wolfbane Icons

Happy New Year, everyone!

Here's a long-overdue batch of icons: a number of my favorite classic stars reading books and newspapers. This includes James Cagney, Claude Rains, Leslie Howard, Fredric March, Peter Cushing, William Powell, Bela Lugosi, and Vincent Price.

( The novel is mightier than the script... )

My goodness, what a month. *g* Minus all the Cagneyness I've already posted, here is January's icon haul. Fifty-five icons, starring:

Katharine Hepburn [11]; Norma Shearer [8]; Charlie Chaplin [7]; Doris Day [6]; William Powell [6]; Humphrey Bogart/Lauren Bacall [4]; Rudolph Valentino [4]; Sidney Poitier [3]; Greer Garson [3]; Rita Hayworth [2]; and Red Skelton [1].

( Oh, we're going to talk about me, are we? Goody. )

Greta Garbo fans should have a treat next month, if not sooner--because if I keep up this pace, I'll have to unload my icons more often! And for the X-Men fans, I'll probably go ahead and dispense with a Xavier-Magneto set within a week or so, when the challenge concludes.

I've hit a stride with my icons; out of the thirty-eight in this selection that were entered in icontests, roughly half of them placed. The award banners are now on display in my trophy case. Including some previously unreleased extras, there are a total of 53 icons here: 40 classics and 13 X-Men. Enjoy!

( Classics: 9 Grace Kelly, 6 Humphrey Bogart, 4 Gary Cooper, 4 Olivia De Havilland, 4 My Man Godfrey, 3 James Cagney, 2 Cary Grant, 2 Barry Fitzgerald, 2 Anna May Wong, 1 Fredric March, 1 Danny Kaye, 1 Pat O'Brien, 1 Audrey Hepburn )

( X-Men: 7 Wolverine, 2 Beast, 1 Cyclops, 1 Magneto, 1 Storm, 1 Angel )

I've only done a handful of icons so far this month, but I can tell you already that my next assortment will include Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, the subjects of a current icontest challenge. Wish me luck with them! *g*

Well, here it is--the whole heap of general icons I turned out during the month of March. Some of these will have been seen as entries in icontests such as classicicontest or classics_stills--but the majority of them are completely new.

( Our lives are made in these small hours... )

On the last Sunday of every month, I will be posting the month's roundup of challenge icons, along with "challenge rejects" that I made for icontests but chose not to submit (and perhaps any other loose icons I have on hand). Most of them will probably be classic film-related in the foreseeable future, but just about anything might turn up.

Since this is the first such post, all of the icons I've made for classicicontest are here, as well as some recent strays that I missed in my backposting. But amidst all of the old news (at least for some of you), there are a few icons here that have never been displayed before.

( 25 icons: James Cagney, Danny Kaye, Frank McHugh, and many more )

Twelve icons starring William Powell and Myrna Loy as Nick and Nora Charles in The Thin Man.

( It's my dog... and my wife. )

I was going to be a good girl and settle down to write... but then hildy suggested I try my hand at some Thin Man icons. (Which was timely, since I just watched part of the TCM marathon of all six films two nights ago.) The pictures I turned up weren't entirely cooperative with my efforts, but I think I managed a few decent items.

( By the way, how IS your father's side? )