marvel comics
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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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A lovely Kevin Nowlan page from his currently running Man-Thing story, based on Steve Gerber’s last script for the character and tying back into an old Gerber story. I’ll be picking this one up in trade, believe me. Marvel is really putting out some good work these days—I bought a Wolverine comic for the first
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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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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
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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.
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Rare and strange: a picture of The Punisher by the late, great Moebius.
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