Art For Art’s Sake #122: Artistic Visions All Around

by Richard Bruton

Art For Art’s Sake – Bringing you the comic art, week after week after week…

Okay, let’s begin with the ‘things that never came to pass department’ – the 1981 Marvel Dr Strange proposal from Roger Stern and Frank Miller that got as far as this house-ad – (Via The Marvel Project)

Lee Weeks – Batman –

Garry Leach – Judge Death pin-up – 2000 AD Prog #558 (1988)

Bruce McCorkindale – Arthouse Muppets – The Shawshank Redemption

Terry Moore – Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane Vol 2 #3

Massimo Carnevale –

Esad Ribic – Dark Phoenix – Jean Grey

Stephanie Hans – Storm

Alex Toth – gotta love the super-love from super-dogs…

Mike McKone – Iron Man

Kaz –

Jacques Tardi – another Euro master – art from Nestor Burma –

A couple from Aaron Lopresti…

And to end… Brent Anderson‘s Ka-Zar Portfolio (1982)

All of which took me down the rabbit hole of Anderson’s work… something I first saw with this… 1982’s X-Men Graphic Novel, God Loves, Man Kills…

Damn, I loved that when I first read it, probably a couple of years after release, when I was a young teen loving the X-Men. It was such a powerful read for this young lad at the time.

And since then, Anderson’s art has always come to have that special place in my heart.