Category: Artist Spotlight
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
If you started reading comics between the late 1970s and up to the mid-1980s, you would have run into artwork by this talented illustrator. Contributing to such important Marvel properties as Iron Fist, Fantastic Four and – most iconically – the Uncanny X-Men - by the...
While some might not consider the illustration work of George Perez to be classic, I would argue that he is a modern master. Moreover, I think time will vindicate my assessment of his work and Perez’s detailed and powerful drawings will eventually become heralded as some...
In recent years there’s been something of a renaissance regarding the collectability of Silver and Bronze age cover art. After a long period during which cover art from this period was, more or less, ignored, a new found interest in these covers can be attested to...
Sadly Bernie Wrightson’s death in 2017 has cost the world a talented horror artist. The horror comic book genre will never be the same without him. His top comic books are centered around the creation of Swamp Thing: House of Secrets #92 and Swamp Thing...
