Uncategorized
-
Mike Allred’s cover to a recent Daredevil issue. He’s another one I’m just crazy about–where a lot of his contemporaries are influenced by Art Nouveau, he’s clearly riffing on Pop Art in a really great way; some of his Madman pages could be Roy Lichtenstein paintings.
-
George Perez’s cover to his recently published “lost” graphic novel The New Teen Titans: Games.
-
A detail from one of Brian Bolland’s terrific Animal Man covers.
-
Michael Zulli drew the beautiful epilogue story in The Sandman, called The Wake. It’s some of Neil Gaiman’s best writing and Zulli’s artwork is irreproachable. This is a particularly good panel; I’m afraid his work is old enough that there aren’t as many hi-res images floating around, but I just love him.
-
Ah, Hellboy. Mike Mignola is consistently one of the most compositionally accomplished comics artists working in the field and it broke my heart into tiny pieces when he handed the reins for the interior artwork over to Duncan Fegredo, wonderful as Fegredo is. Here’s a cover from a 2010 Hellboy book.
-
Here’s one from the late Dave Stevens—a fun, pin-uppy Airboy cover of Airboy nemesis Valkyrie, in the great tradition of sexy villainesses a la Will Eisner.
-
Last one for the evening: a Fantastic Four/Iron Man cover by the late, great Seth Fisher. Fisher died under really tragic circumstances a few years ago; he was unquestionably one of the finest artists of the younger generation and there are only a few examples of his beautiful, utterly strange work, but they are to…
-
A recent Walt Simonson Thor cover. I know Simonson’s 80’s run on Thor is considered pretty much the last word on the character, but contemporary color separators are so much better-equipped to handle a style like Simonson’s that I had to post this.
-
Milo Manara is an Italian artist who gets a lot of love from indie comics fans and is a much bigger deal in Europe than the States, but among comic artists, he’s very well-regarded and he and Chris Claremont did a great one-shot called X-Women, to which this was the cover.
GRAPHOMANIA 