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CONAN THE KING no.21 • cover art • Michael Kaluta [1984]
Basic Training: How to Draw Batman, by Tim Sale
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Barry Windsor Smith Jane Morris Original Art (The Gorblimey Press, 1975) Source
“This drawing was published in Shelf Stuff and The Studio.”
My friend ungoliantschilde has the full set of prints.
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Art Process: Wesley Dodds, The Sandman
Art by Matt Lesniewski
the JLA by Howard Porter, with Inks by John Dell.
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World’s Finest by Howard Porter, with My Inks and Colors.
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Howard Porter and John Dell “Fire in the Sky” JLA #6 Zauriel title splash (1997) Source
Colors by Pat Garrahy
Marvel going bankrupt in the late ‘90s wasn’t a surprise. It was like that scene in Talladega Nights where the car crash goes on for so long there’s a commercial break. Onslaught, the Heroes Reborn stuff. It was Ricky Bobby’s stock car endlessly flipping across the track and it was so bad they took a commercial break, only to come back for an even more drawn out car wreck.
X-Men was this huge hit in the 1980s, and it created Jim Lee (and by extension: Image Comics). Marvel reacted by doubling down. Crossover events every other month. Foil variants. Bolero jackets and pockets. It reached a boiling point.
Meanwhile, DC Comics killed Superman and then killed Batman. But. A small vertigo book was making waves. Alan Moore’s Swamp Thing is fantastic. Neil Gaiman’s Sandman was perhaps the most literary and well written comic of all time.
Grant Morrison’s Doom Patrol had a story arc about a painting attacking a city.
Naturally, DC editorial said fuck it and gave Grant Morrison the writing duties for the reboot of their premiere team. All the headliners: Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Flash, and Green Lantern. And Grant pulled an ace for the art duties. Howard Porter.
“JLA” was for the JLA what “Ultimates” and “New Avengers” was for the MCU. It made a failing property relevant for a new generation, and it rereads very well. (Skip the DC 1 Million Stuff).
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Silver Surfer
Art by Francis Portela
“GREATER LOVE HATH NO X-MAN…”, by Dave Cockrum, with Letters by Annette Kawecki, Colors by Bonnie Wilford, and a Script by Chris Claremont.
Batman sketchbook commissions, by Marshall Rogers
some original artwork by Frank Quitely.
“Picasso Batman”, by Jim Steranko.
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the Far Side, by Gary Larson.
Still one of my favorites.
True story. While strolling the exhibit in LA years ago, I overheard “polar bears are Arctic and penguins are Antarctic.” Like that’s the least of it. You know, talking, not seeing through the “disguise” but yeah they’d never meet means everything. Some people.
That story makes it funnier. I’m watching my football game. I read your comment and did a legit spit take.
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from a Wiener Dog art book, by Gary Larson