Tag: j h williams iii

Been meaning to post this for a bit: The astonishing J.H. Williams III’s most beautiful 2-page spread yet from the unbeatable “Sandman: Overture.” Both he and the great Neil Gaiman are really at the top of their respective forms on this one and it’s such a treat to read something with so many characters I’ve adored my whole adult life returning just as I remember them. One wonderful thing Gaiman was able to do on “The Sandman” was create a world in which switching artists every sixish issues made perfect sense—our hero, after all, appeared slightly differently to everyone who saw him. But it was always such an incredible treat when an artist I personally liked, such as P. Craig Russell or Marc Hempel or Colleen Doran, got to draw him. Williams is my favorite artist working—he could be working on an X-Force story written by somebody’s dog and I’d still read it. So having him and Gaiman working on my single favorite comics series is the kind of treat I never expected.

And here, for reference, is a great one by Alphonse Mucha, an artist whose work you’re going to recognize if you’ve ever fawned over a great J.H. Williams III layout or enjoyed a good Melinda Gebbie page. He did posters all over New York in the 1920’s, though he was personally Czech. More on him here; consider this clause a reminder to myself to put up some Virgil Finlay and Arthur Rackham so you know where greats like John Totleben and Charles Vess are drawing from, too.