Art For Art’s Sake #211: Davis And Kurtzman’s Caricatures… More Glorious Comic Art

Art For Art’s Sake, Comicon’s weekly trip through the world of comic art, old, new, familiar, unusual, but always brilliant… and ending this week with just some of the insanely great caricatures of Harvey Kurtzman and Jack Davis…

Andi Watson – the sort of thing you get every week from his Patreon –

Peanuts, by Moebius. From the ‘Monsieur Schulz et ses Peanuts’ homage book by Marion Vidal, 1976

Unmistakably Alex Toth… Zorro #12 (1991)

John K Snyder – Kamandi commission of an imaginary cover from the classic Kirby era…

 

Tank Girl’s pal Jet Girl here in her Cut-Out Diorama Super Theatre cards – art by Brett Parson

Via David Roach – Nestor Redondo over Joe Kubert… Rima of the Jungle…

Bruce McCorkindale – ‘…my Muppet version of HIGH FIDELITY featuring Kermit, Fozzie, Gonzo, and Link Hogthrob.‘

And another from David Roach – Cover by Ron Embleton that’s just gorgeous to see…

Kevin Nowlan – a different look for the Bat…

Rachael Stott… ‘first time drawing the big daddy himself’…

Keith Burns Commando cover…

‘Shh’ by Mike Del Mundo…

John Watson – Black Cat

 

Fille this under the ‘I like it but I can’t read it’ – Ersin Karabulut‘s artwork (via Thomas Ragon)…

A little Mike Perkins Spidey stuff, first of all giving us a few of those Spidey villains…

And then Spidey himself…

 

And finally this week, a little classic from Mad Magazine, the 1955 parody of Vera Cruz – the 1954 Western directed by Robert Aldrich and starring Gary Cooper and Burt Lancaster.

Written by Harvey Kurtzman with art by Jack Davis… as with so much of Mad, it’s all about the very special cartooning, the perfect caricatures, just the side of too much…