Spider-Man Goes 3D in Eisner-Winning Artist’s Birthday Diorama for Son

Eisner Award-winning artist Nick Sousanis created a spectacular 3D diorama of Spider-Man and friends swinging through the city for his son’s birthday.

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Eisner Award-winning artist Nick Sousanis made a very impressive 3D diorama of Spider-Man swinging through New York City for his son’s birthday. The diorama he created was actually meant to be a pop-up birthday card, which Sousanis says he makes every year for his son. Ghost-Spider as well as Miles Morales also appear in the diorama.

Sousanis is a founder of TheDetroiter.com and has taught about the importance of cartooning and comic books at the University of Calgary and San Francisco State University. He was even the first person to write a dissertation at Columbia University completely in a comic book format. The dissertation, titled Unflattening, won the 2015 Lynd Ward Graphic Novel Prize. Sousanis’s Eisner Award for Best Short Story came from his 2018 piece “A Life in Comics: The Graphic Adventures of Karen Green.”

Photos don’t do the piece justice, so Sousanis took a video which he posted to his Twitter account. In his post Sousanis mocks how the “foldability” of the cards gets increasingly difficult every year. The diorama is not just impressive in its position of the characters swinging through the city but in the detail of the city itself. Sousanis posted previous cards on the Twitter thread, which included The Beatle’s Yellow Submarine last year and a Trojan horse the year before that.

My ambition for my boy’s pop-up birthday cards keeps outstripping their foldability more each year! This, I think, is a diorama! I could only best show what all I did in video (previous years in thread & stills of this in final post) 1/4 pic.twitter.com/mxDepftfLn

Of course, comic creators, artists, and writers are known for using their work to pay tribute to their kids. Writer Christopher Cantwell did such a thing recently in The United States of Captain America. It happens at the conclusion of the five-issue miniseries when Steve Rogers visits the Smithsonian. A young four-year-old boy named Leo comes over to him to say hello. Leo is dressed in a Captain America costume and is enamored to be talking to the hero himself. When a fan tweeted about how much they love the moment, Cantwell joking replied that it is a “weird and total coincidence” that his son is also named Leo and his favorite hero just happens to be Cap as well. It’s a cool revelation that shows writers and artists are constantly thinking about their kids when creating.

Although he doesn’t say it, it’s possible that Sousanis’ son’s favorite character is Spider-Man. He posted a picture on his Twitter of the boy doing monkey bars while wearing a Spider-Man costume. The two-year-old, now three, was probably pretending to be the wall-crawler himself. Sousanis didn’t reveal what he plans to do for his son’s birthday next year, but as the cards continue growing in complexity, fans can only imagine how he will outdo himself.

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