Art For Art’s Sake #214: The Mighty MacMahon
by Richard Bruton
Welcome one and all to another spectacular collection of comic art for your delight… it’s Art For Art’s Sake...
This week, plenty of brilliance awaits before we have an extended look at the work of an absolute genius… Mick MacMahon. But first…
‘Concept I can’t do anything with, but you can have if you want: golden age mystery man is forced to rejoin the superhero workforce, must grumpily adapt to guy-in-the-chair comm links, battle suits, and teammates calling him by his first name, never woulda happened back in HIS DAY’
Neo commission – Joker literally killing it on stage…
Outback era X-Men by Olivier Coipel
Staz Johnson – commission of Dredd and Rogue…
$corpion Millionaire – Domino of X-Force…
Philippe Druillet – Agron, published in Métal Hurlant
Batman by J.H. Williams III
Tom Fowler – Dr Strange…
Goran Parlov – Nick Fury
Dave Bardin – TMNT & their rogues…
And more Dave Bardin – Doom Patrol and their rogues…
‘Hey gang…here’s a private commission done for one of the producers of the upcoming Dave Stevens documentary, Drawn to Perfection.’
Sweeney Boo – Jubilee
The Shadow by Mark Chiarello
Mike Becker – Supe’s Villains…
Russell Mark Olsen – Poirot…
Francesco Francavilla – Hawkman
David Lapham – A Stray Bullets Last Supper…
Simon Bisley – Deathstroke
Lane Lloyd – Spidey…
Louie Joyce – another four great Spideys…
‘I never was able to fit this into Fantastic 4: Grand Design. The Fantastic Four splits up and forms four separate Fantastic Fours.’
And we shall end this week via Billy Hynes and these absolutely amazing Mick MacMahon commissions… an artist whose work would make any wall so so so much better…
