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…and also on a pulpy note, J.G. Jones’ lovely cover to DC’s wildly misbegotten First Wave, in which pulp character Doc Savage teams up with parody of a pulp character The Spirit and pulp character mutation Batman. The only really pulpy thing about the series was Jones’ wonderful cover art, which is very convincingly evocative…
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Along similar lines, here’s Joe Chiodo doing a jungle babe and her lucky gorilla pal. Similar principles and a more air-brushy, painterly style. Chiodo’s the only artist I can stand to see on Danger Girl besides creator J. Scott Campbell. That series has a really cool pulp-with-cheesecake-intact flavor that not a lot of people can…
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Here’s a great Bruce Timm drawing of Death from Neil Gaiman’s excellent series The Sandman (and her own, eponymous series, I suppose, although if you read either and enjoy it, you owe it to yourself to read the other). Timm is a wonderful artist. Not only did he completely revolutionize children’s television by proving that…
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Here’s Kevin O’Neill’s magnificent cover to The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century—1969. This book has gotten better and better, and the recent conclusion of this volume was maybe as good as it’s ever been. Moore really seems hell-bent on writing a good story all the way to its conclusion; in a lot of ways, it’s…
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John Totleben is slowly losing his vision, which is a tremendous shame, because he’s a wonderful, wonderful artist, as evidenced by this Swamp Thing cover.
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I love Will Eisner. I love The Spirit. That is all.
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Geof Darrow drew this as the cover for his beautiful miniseries Hard Boiled, with Frank Miller writing. It’s terrific. It’s got that schizoid thing that Miller uses so often (fragmented dialogue, overlapping trains of thought, heavy irony about consumerism), but it works very well with Darrow’s ultra-clear, incredibly busy linework as a running counterpoint, rather…
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Here’s a page from Tom Strong #14 by Chris Sprouse, a wonderful artist who took over on Supreme and left the book with Moore after publisher/creator Rob Liefeld’s backers pulled out, leaving the publisher in limbo for several years. Moore and Sprouse reworked the Supreme stories they’d been working on and a pitch for another…
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Here’s Jerry Ordway’s fantastic Superman #1 homage cover for Supreme #41, my personal favorite work by Alan Moore and some of the best old-fashioned superhero stories you’ll ever read. Erik Larsen’s reappropriation of the character as a dumb, macho riff on Superman is frankly the artistic equivalent of a war crime and I wish the…
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Probably no one is going to tell you that Dave Gibbons isn’t a fabulous artist, but most people think his magnum opus is Watchmen, when, for my money, you just can’t beat his and Frank Miller’s absurd reworking of Atlas Shrugged as an SF satire, Martha Washington. Let me be clear: I hate Ayn Rand.…
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