Comic art
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It’s been a while since I posted some old-fashioned comic art, so here’s a particularly good cover from Bryan Talbot’s magnificent character-driven sci-fi extravaganza, Heart of the Empire. HotE is a sequel to The Adventures of Luther Arkwright, a much more experimental and weird book, but it stands alone both as a solo work and in the annals
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I like to post larger images than this, but this was the best Melinda Gebbie I could find that I feel comfortable posting—she did some beautiful work on Lost Girls with her husband Alan Moore (far superior to his, frankly), but that stuff is pretty blue and the explicit nature of the subject matter distracts from
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Various Godzillae, courtesy of Art Adams
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A beautiful page from Neil Gaiman and Mark Buckingham’s marvelous run on “Miracleman,” my all-time favorite comic book. The first Gaiman arc was a series of interlocking short stories set in the world posited by Moore at the end of his glorious run, and it’s even better. This is arguably the best of those stories,
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Here’s a fabulous two-page spread from the <em>Daredevil</em> annual in that story, in fact—Davis crams pretty much every major story in the DD canon into this gorgeous illustration of the character’s life flashing before his eyes as he slips off a fire escape. Highly recommended reading.
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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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