Art For Art’s Sake # 131 – Bring On The Art!
by Richard Bruton
More Art For Art’s Sake…
Gorgeous and striking Christian Ward Batman…
Will Kirkby – a great Brit artist :
“So it’s #CriticalRole campaign 3 tonight. I’ll be watching tomorrow since I need my sleep so I can draw a ton more of Yasha. So let me art dump some classics.”
“There are certain pics that every comic artist should tackle at some stage: Batman on a gargoyle, a fastball special, Daredevil doing a flip surrounded by his ‘radar circles’ – etc etc. Well, today it was the time for a ‘SILVER SURFER IN FRONT OF GALACTUS’ FACE’.”
Jonathan Edwards – Sparks. I’m guessing he’s seen the fabulous Edgar Wright movie – The Sparks Brothers. I had the pleasure of seeing it the other day and it reminded me just how damn good a band Sparks were and still are…
Moebius…
Evan Dorkin – Gotta Have My Batman…
Juan Ferreyra – commission of Spidey and The Sinister Six…
Declan Shalvey Punisher…
Skottie Young – Rocket and Groot…
Jen Bartel – doing the covers for the new She-Hulk #1, complete with corner boxes…
Derek Charm – Johnny Constantine commission
Francesca Francavilla – Bat-villains gonna plot…
Josh Cornillon – Marvel Girl
James Stayte – deleted scene from The Thing
Mike Maihack – Captain Carter
Ken Steacy –
And from a long time ago as well (1985) … a very young, pre-Hellboy Mike Mignola on the cover of Alpha Flight #36:
Kevin Nowlan process stuff – damn, his covers are always so good:
“From 1987, Batman 412 rejected cover sketch, approved cover sketch with notes from DC editor and final version.” – Kevin Nowlan
Matt Kaufenberg – pitching his DC kids’ book!
