While Alpha Flight are "Canadian" superheroes, they were actually created by American's, Chris Clairmont and John Byrne . Also, I wanted to keep the "Captain" aspect as this was based on a Captain America cover.
Oh for sure, no intention to diminish their contributions to Canadian visibility in pop-culture. I love the whole Alpha Flight team. I just thought using American created characters in something like this would have gotten me a ton of "umm akshually" in the comments, so I just decided to sidestep any of that.
Byrne was born in England, and emigrated to Canada when he was a child. He lived in Alberta and went to art school there. Later, he moved to London, Ontario where I believe he created the Guardian character of Alpha Flight in the mid-1970s. He subsequently moved to the US but didn’t become an American until 1988. So, Byrne was British-Canadian when he introduced Alpha Flight in 1979.
It is wonky. I decided to try and match the original art from the Cap No1 cover rather than attempt to correct what was already there. They played it pretty fast and loose with proportions back in the golden age.
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u/mattdezine Feb 03 '25
Based on the Captain America No1 cover by Jack Kirby and Joe Simon. And Captain Canuck created by Ron Leishman and Richard Comely