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#ComicCoverOfTheWeek #TheBraveAndTgeBold 84 #DCComics #Batman #SgtRock - one of the things I find fascinating about #ComicBookCoverArt is that if you know it well enough, the #design of the characters, not necessarily the layout of the picture, can go a long way to telling you when the #comicbook 1/
#ComicCoverOfTheWeek #SavageSwordOfConan 148 by Joe Jusko. While #Conan #art was often connected to Frank Frazetta, Jusko’s robust run was marked by a slightly brighter, sharper more modern palate than Frazetta’s, and his work, while crossing a variety of industries and companies, was iconically 1/
#ComicCoverOfTheWeek Trial of the Amazons: #WonderGirl by #comic writer and artist Joëlle Jones. I think I picked this book up just because of the cover.
Definitely influenced by the #ArtNouveau movement, Jones’s cover is beautiful, elegant and tells a story. Her early work was as a colorist 1/
Sorry I’m a bit late with my #ComicCoveroftheWeek #Gries from creator Marlena Parlavantza. Please forgive any mistakes - I can’t read #Greek. I have a tradition of picking up local #comics (when available) when I visit a new country. Last spring I picked this up in #Athens. The #comic is 1/3
#ComicCoverOfTheWeek #RainFall by Arnulf Rödler. My #German sucks, but I try to use #comics to help reinforce the language as I learn. #Artist Rödler paired with Daniel Wunderer on this dark #GraphicNovel. Like may of the #Austrian comics I have found, Rain Fall feels heavily influenced by the 1/
#ComicCoverOfTheWeek #Batman 423 by @toddmcfarlane.bsky.social. This four issue arc was my first introduction to McFarlane - different for the time, stylized, and the cape felt like it had a life of its own. It was enough to make me pick up his run on #Spider-man. He went on to be an integral 1/2
#ComicCoverOfTheWeek - Video Jack from Epic #Comics by Keith Giffen. Giffen, best known for his work on Lobo & Justice League, engaged in a Minimalist Style (when compared to the likes of Bernie Wrightson), which, at times, gave his artwork a slick, modern feel which was perfect for the alt- 1/
#ComicCoverOfTheWeek: @heavymetalofficial.bsky.social # 5, 1978 (?) by Bernie Wrightson. Wrightson, best known for his work in #HorroComics, on #Batman and #SwampThing, first broke into the industry at 21 years old, when he provided the art for the short story, “The Man Who Murdered Himself.” 1/
#ComicCoverOfTheWeek #WebOfSpiderman 32, part of the #Kraven’s Last Hunt story arc across the various #Spiderman titles back in 1987. Written by @jmdematteis.bsky.social, the cover art team of Mike Zeck (pencils) and Bob McLeod (inks) created memorable covers for the multi-issue story. During a 1/
#ComicCoverOfTheWeek #100Bullets #92 by Dave Johnson. Johnson’s covers for the #NoirComic series were a study in stark contrasts, and, without copying the style of interior artist Eduardo Russo and colorist Patricia Mulvihill, he reflected the book’s interior art. The covers he created for the 1/
#ComicCoverOfTheWeek #Blacksad: Somewhere Within the Shadows by Juanjo Guarnido. The Spanish-born artist is the co-creator of Blacksad, a noir detective thriller in the vein of Raymond Chandler, but in a world of anthropomorphic animals. Think Zootopia with a hard edge. While Guarnido did spend 1/
#ComicCoverOfTheWeek #Batman 400 by Bill Sienkiewicz. Sienkiewicz broke into the industry with his kinetic, often bordering on surrealistic style in the early 1980’s working on Moon Knight. While his worked graced a number of different titles from the big two, I’ve always been partial to his work 1/
#ComicCoverOfTheWeek Shock SuspenStories number 6 from #ECComics, and cover by Wally Wood. The #comic premiered in 1952, and ran for only 18 issues, ending up discontinued at the beginning of 1955. EC, known for its horror, and violent crime comics, was a casualty of the moral panic caused by 1/
#ComicCoverOfTheWeek #Hellblazer 61 by Glenn Fabry. The British #comicbook #artist, best known for his cover work on #DCComics #Vertigo titles #Preacher & Hellblazer broke into the industry in 1985, when he did the #art for Slaine in #2000AD, a British anthology series best known for #JudgeDredd. 1/
#ComicCoverOfTheWeek @heavymetalofficial.bsky.social # 38, released June 1, 1980. The #coverart was by Swiss surrealist HR Giger. Giger was probably best known for his design work on the film #Alien, but broke into film by doing preliminary design work on “the greatest #SciFi epic never made.” 1/3
#ComicCoverOfTheWeek - #Hellblazer 40 by Dave McKean. McKean’s most iconic work, arguably, is the original #ArkhamAsylum, but he came to prominence in the #ComicBook world in the late 80’s and early 90’s for his cover work on #VertigoComics - primarily #Sandman, Hellblazer, and Black Orchid 1/2
#ComicCoverOfTheWeek the October 1939 edition of #TheShadow, painted by George Rozen.
The twin brother of illustrator Jerome Rozen, George was a skilled, painter who produced #Shadow covers from 1932 to 1939 & in the early 1940s …He worked many years as a cover artist for Street & Smith. 1/3
#ComicCoverOfTheWeek #DoomPatrol 47, September 1991 by Simon Bisley. Bisley, known for his work on Lobo and Judge Dredd, started his art career designing tee shirts and album covers. Starting with issue 26 of the Grant Morrison run on The Doom Patrol, #Bisley did almost all the covers until 1/2
#ComicCoverOfTheWeek #Vampirella 28 by #Spanish #artist Enrique Torres, who painted under the pen name #Enrich. Maybe not quite the name legendarily associated with #Warren magazines that Frank Frazetta was, Enrich produced covers for the #horror publisher that were just as iconic. #CoverArt #comics
#ComicCoverOfTheWeek is actually 4 this week. A little less than a decade ago, Spanish comic artist David Aja brought his minimalist approach to the covers of #ScarletWitch. Aja did covers for all 15 issues, utilizing only black, red and white, creating stark, eye-catching, beautiful covers that 1/2
#ComicCoveroftheWeek #CaptainAmerica 1, March 1941, penciled by the legendary Jack Kirby, inked and colored by Joe Simon.
Simon, then 27, teamed w/ Kirby, only 24 at the time, to create the iconic image of Captain America punching out Hitler. Credited as the creators of Captain America, the two 1/2
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Action Comics 2, released July 1938.
Cover Art: Leo O’Mealia
The issue following Superman’s debut featured a Superman story, but #coverart by O’Mealia, a writer and artist who was a syndicated cartoonist - author of the strip Wedlock. In addition to his work on Action 1/2
