Art For Art’s Sake #215: Quite[ly] Brilliant Artwork
by Richard Bruton
Roll up, roll up, come join in the fun and games of the Comicon weekly artistic extravaganza that is Art For Art’s Sake…
“Did this as a promo image for X-FORCE early on in our run. Kinda bummed it never got used.”
The Lord of the Black Corsairs by Barry Windsor-Smith, 1974.
The Unknown Soldier by Gerry Talaoc
Louie Joyce – The Demon
Steve Rude – The Offering
“Batman fights crime and rights wrongs and stars in movies but he also lets me break in new inking brushes on sketches.”
Mike Maihack – Batgirl sketches
… and some Supergirl sketches…
Corto Maltese by Dave McKean
Fantastic Four by Dan Hipp
Darryl Cunningham – Art gallery
Jim Steranko – Cover for The Return of Valkyrie
Bruce Timm – Dracula AD 1972
Spider-Man by Mark Chilcott
And Spider-Man no more, a beautiful version by Marcos Martin…
Tula Lotay – Blood Stained Teeth #9
Spider-Man by Sam Kieth
Bernie Wrightson – The Thing and Hulk graphic novel original art (1987)
Travis Charest – Amazing Spider-Man #1 variant cover (2022)
Juan Gedeon – Legion of Bloom
Booster Gold and Blue Beetle, by Kevin Maguire and Joe Rubinstein
A fabulous series, We3 by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely…
Three beloved pets, Bandit the dog (number 1), Tinker the cat (2), and Pirate the rabbit (3), have been transformed into killing machines for the army – surgically altered and inserted into high-tech armour and sent off to kill.
But when those who abused them, mutilated them, and sent them out to kill decide the project is over, the animals escape execution and go on the run.
It’s a simple three issue series, but done so wonderfully well, with so much of what makes it so good coming from the techniques that Quitely uses to show us the world of the animals. It’s an innovative approach making us of panel-to-panel transitions, such as the magnificent spread of the cat, Tinker, moving so fast across the page that she appears to be moving between and through several 2D panels wreaking havoc…
And then there’s moments like the one below, with Quitely using multiple mini panels overlaid over the main imagery of the page to give the reader an absolute information dump… beautiful stuff…
Or the way he uses the architecture of the comics page to serve the function of the story… such as this…
Okay, you get the idea…
