Art For Art’s Sake # 110 – The Early Alan Davis…
by Richard Bruton
Right, stop what you’re doing and give yourself a few minutes to relax and grab a little art therapy – it’s time for your weekly dose of comic medicine, it’s time for Art For Art’s Sake
The Unexpected #198 – cover by Luis Dominguez – stunning!
The Girl From The Other Side – Nagabe
Young Hellboy – Matt Smith –
More Hellboy, this time from Tiernen Trevallion – Hellboy & the BRPD, Her Fatal Hour
Veronica Fish –
Uncanny X-Men #201 – cover recreation by Rick Leonardi –
A couple from Kevin Wada – Ultra Boy and a sexy lookin’ Winter Soldier –
Thor, The Mighty Avenger #3 – a brilliant series by Roger Langridge and Chris Samnee
Superman Red & Blue#3 by Paul Pope
Superman & Lois – Pasqual Ferry
Marvel Spider-Man poster by Vince Evans
Simon Bisley – Slaine, The Horned God
Ran and the Gray World – Aki Irie
Nikolai Dante – Simon Fraser
And finally…
Time for a little Alan Davis, the UK artist behind Miracleman/Marvelman, Captain Britain, DR & Quinch, Excalibur, X-Men, Batman, oh we could keep going… but we’re going to go with some of his early work here… 2000 AD & Marvel UK… (don’t worry, I’ll cover Miracleman somewhere else!)
Like this, his first work for 2000 AD…
And more from 2000 AD…
A little fanzine art…
Marvel UK…
And to end…
I knew of this art but I’d never heard the reason behind it before – thanks to Peter Duncan and the Mighty World of British Comics for the info…
‘Back in 1987, Alan Davis offered artwork in Ark 17/18, for the best script to finish this unfinished page featuring Captain Britain and Marvelman. Spencer Woodcock was a worthy winner, and the page was lettered by Richard Starkings.
