Comic art
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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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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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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.
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George Perez’s cover to his recently published “lost” graphic novel The New Teen Titans: Games.
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A detail from one of Brian Bolland’s terrific Animal Man covers.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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