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One of my all time favorite Superman illustrations.
Batman 1972 by Francesco Francavilla / Blog / Store
Francesco Francavilla. God, this is gorgeous. If I ran DC, I would commission this to follow Jeff Parker and Jonathan Case’s Batman 66.
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Superman short by Jeff Smith and Paul Pope in honor of Supe’s 75th Anniversary.
Smith + Pope + Superman + Bizarro = Perfect.
Jeff Smith and Paul Pope celebrate the 75th Anniversary of Siegel and Shuster’s legendary creation with an amazing short.
Favorite Artists: Doug Mahnke
I love Mahnke, but I think I’ve always preferred a leaner version of Superman (like this one from Moebius). Somehow his feats look even more incredible when performed by a man with ordinary proportions.
What’s great about Moebius’ Superman is how he looks all together very human and at the same time eerie and unnatural.
“Bookplate” illustrations from DC Comics’ dystopian re-imagining of its classic Silver Age science fiction properties, Twilight, illustrated masterfully by the peerless Jose Luis Garcia Lopez.
One of my first submissions to Project:Rooftop, although I was pretty far afield of the “costume redesign” requirement. This here is my take on Iron Man, let’s see that in a movie. (Pen and ink, Photoshop)
At first glance (not reading anything) I thought this could have been a Blue Beetle design.
Quite amazing to see how Moebius’s distintive style is lost when the coloring is overdone. I can see why a publisher might want to try and “update” the look using new coloring techniques, but the art sure suffers.
Today is apparently Colorist Appreciation Day, according the comics internet. In case there were any questions about creative legitimacy concerning the role of the colorist in comics, look at this comparison above. The first image is from the original release of Jodorowsky and Moebius’ The Incal, colored by Isabelle Beaumenay-Joannet. The second is from the atrocious recoloring for a 2003 re-release, which was also released in the states under a partnership with DC Comics.
Beaumenay-Joannet’s colors are simple and elegant, allowing the fullness of Moebius’ line to come through, and the space and loneliness to be felt. The recolored page, with all of its gaudy textures and gradients, destroy all of that. My eyes are way too busy processing all that muck to notice the line and composition of the page, and it all falls apart on me. You can see more examples in this post by Joe McCulloch, where he breaks down a bit the coloring history for The Incal(I had no idea that Yves Chaland only colored the first chapter of until I first read this).
The value of colorists: sort of a no-brainer.
nerd night (invincible)
