Art For Art’s Sake #212: A Weekly Dose Of Comics For You

Giving you your weekly shot in the arm of comics artwork… it’s Art For Art’s Sake, making your week just that little bit better through the medium we love…

The new cover by Tom Gauld to the very strange Cain’s Jawbone (a book with the pages printed in the wrong order where the challenge is to solve the mystery mysteries. For more on that, see this article). Four stages – finished, inks, pencils, rough…

Dylan Teague Dredd…

Colleen Doran – ‘Truly ancient page of Teen Titans pencil sketches. I think these are circa early 1990’s’

And more from Colleen Doran – Promethea commission

Chris Bachelo – Venom (and Plovers) –

Firestorm by Alex Riegel

Paul Pope and those troublesome Jawas…

Batman by Mark Chiarello

And another Mark Chiarello, Reed Richards.

Juni Ba – DD variant

Matt Wagner – a little Iron Giant for you…

Jack Kirby – Conan the Barbarian

Batman by George Pratt –

Superman commission by Daniel Warren Johnson –

Galactus by Art Adams

Goran Parlov – Flash Gordon – ‘What can go wrong when you’re inspired by one of the best?!’ (and of course he means Alex Raymond)

Staz Johnson Punisher commission –

Teen Titans Breakfast Club by Cliff Chiang –

Sebastian Piriz – Bats and Supes…

Dave Bardin – Ant-Man

Jen Bartel’s Wonder Woman 80th Anniversary 100-Page Super-Spectacular 1 cover (2021)

Nick Derrington – Flashes…

Havok & Wolverine Meltdown art by Jon J. Muth and Kent Williams – such a strange little series, with Muth painting Havok (looking rather the spit of James Dean) and his scenes and Williams painting a wild Wolvy and his scenes…

James Harren – ‘variant cover for Tradd Moore’s unbelievable new Doctor Strange series. Tradd’s changing the game. Again.’

From Dirk Maggs, the director/adaptor of so many comic-related audio dramas, going back to the first one – ‘SUPERMAN ON TRIAL, the production that started it all in 1988.’ Art by – of course – Dave Gibbons.