Category: Artist Spotlight

Trolling Supervillains: Thor #137

Thor #137 is the first appearance of Ulik the Rock Troll. Now Ulik has been around the Marvel Universe for quite some time. Usually just another in a long line of Thor foes who gets the privilege of feeling the power of Mjolnir upside their villain domes....

Len Wein’s Best Comics

The creator of Swamp Thing and Wolverine (among many others) if it wasn’t for Len Wein modern superhero comics would look very different. Getting his start early on in the comic book industry, Wein worked for both Marvel and DC and his creative vision shaped the...

The Great Magician: Alan Moore’s Best Comics

Alan Moore is a magician. This claim is at once a metaphor and literally true. The English author and comic book writer trained years ago to become a practicing ceremonial magician. But it’s through his words and ideas that he creates his true magic. Since Moore...

Artist Spotlight on Howard Chaykin

On the wall in my office there’s a lenticular reproduction of the famous Marvel Bronze Age cover to the first issue of Star Wars. This iconic cover, with its dramatic framing of the central protagonists screaming action and adventure is basically everything a comic book cover...

Detective Comics #1000 - Alex Ross Art Exclusive A

For the 80th anniversary of Batman’s 1st appearance in Detective Comics #27 released in 1939, several variant covers were created in celebration for issue #1000. Over 50 different variants exist, but one stands out head and shoulders from the crowd, the Alex Ross Art...

Artist Spotlight on L. B. Cole

While there are many great Golden Age era artists who were masters of evocative and scintillating cover art; when it comes to pre-code covers that make an impact, one artist who immediately springs to mind is L. B. Cole. Lately Cole’s art has been seeing...

Artist Spotlight on Frank Frazetta

The sale of a series of Frazetta oil paintings, first ‘Death Dealer 6’, for an impressive $1.79 million dollars, followed by ‘Egyptian Queen’ recently selling for a staggering, and world record breaking, 5.4 million dollar price tag (see here and here) – only solidifies...

Artist Spotlight on Walt Simonson

American comic book illustrator Walter Simonson has been active in the medium since the early 1970s and has contributed illustrations to titles as popular as X-Factor, The Fantastic Four, Detective Comics and others. However, Simonson is best known for his four year run on Marvel’s The...

Artist of the Macabre: Bernie Wrightson

Bernard Albert Wrightson was an American comic book artist known for Swamp Thing and art for a novel about Frankenstein. He had many other credits to his name, though mostly horror hence his nickname "Master of the Macabre." His terrifying treatment of the genre is a great...

Artist Spotlight: Ron Lim

The Silver Surfer was recreated for a generation by Ron Lim and Jim Starlin's work in the early 1990s. No cover captures the drama of Thanos better than the very beginning of the Infinity Gauntlet storyline in Silver Surfer #50. This issue retells the...