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Another great—Sam Keith, of The Maxx fame. Keith only draws what he wants to draw—the first four issues of The Sandman are a lot uglier than they needed to be except for the one issue that takes place in Hell—but when he actually gets into a groove (as, obviously, he has done in this sketch), he’s the best…
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There are a lot of cool artists associated with the X-Men, but frankly the one I like the best is and will always be Chris Bachalo. His run on Generation X is just incredibly good, and while I’m not Scott Lobdell’s biggest fan, even the talkiest stories were worth reading when Bachalo drew them. He’s…
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Another Bill Sienkiewicz—Psylocke, from the first Fleer Ultra X-Men series. If you’ve ever asked yourself, “I wonder what kind of taste Marvel Comics has?”, consider that Sienkiewicz got a few spot illustrations for this set of cards, and the chases are a really absurd fisheye-perspective puzzle painting by Greg and Tim Hildebrandt, the Thomases Kinkade…
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Great two-pager by J.H. Williams III from his all-too-brief run on Batman.
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And here’s another great Ross painting of the X-Men. This guy’s name gets tossed around as the greatest artist who ever lived, which I realize is annoying, but he’s not jut a photorealistic painter. He has a great sense of composition and movement, as illustrated here.
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Today it’s just straight superhero art—J. Scott Campbell’s Marvel Universe. Hooray!
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I said I’d post some J.H. Williams, didn’t I? Here we go: the cover to Absolute Promethea vol. III. There are not many comic books I will pay $100 per collection to have in slipcased hardcovers that just reprint the original art at larger size on nicer paper, but Promethea is one of them. It was easily…
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andanotherthingtoo: …one of Michael Wm. Kaluta’s excellent covers for Creepy magazine. Both Kaluta and Vess have Rackham-ier work, but I thought it would be interesting to show how the old-fashioned children’s book illustrator’s style feeds into pulp.
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…Charles Vess, Spider-Man: Spirits of the Earth, and finally….
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Here we go. Arthur Rackham’s Instantly they lay still, all turned to stone, followed by…
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