Art For Art’s Sake #239: The Exquisite Beauty Of George Perez’s ‘New Teen Titans’
by Richard Bruton
Art For Art’s Sake… one day we’ll have managed to have shown you everything there is to show you on the Internet to do with comics… but that’s not today.
This week we’re finishing with a glorious set of George Perez’s Teen Titans covers. But first, plenty of art to oooh and ahhh at, beginning with a very important message…
Roberta Gregory from 2017, but never more important than now. And if you don’t agree, then Jesus, I really don’t want to hear from you, you ignorant, heartless, lacking in empathy, worthless human being…
DaNi art from Coffin Bound, as posted by Dan Watters… ‘Down a rabbit hole and came across scans of the original riso print ashcans Dani and I made for Coffin Bound #1 a few years back. Three colors, a stack of rough paper, and many hours spent stapling em together ourselves in a studio in Athens. I loved making these so much.’
Lane Lloyd‘s Joker Karen… she really wants to speak to your manager…
Boum…
Mike Maihack – the Marvels…
Posted by The Only Fink, explained by Phoo Action as… ‘The 16’s, Jamie Hewlett and Alan Martin‘s screwball newspaper strip that never was. Marcel De Toilette, Early Monkey, Nutball and Barney. Their answer to Peanuts and a kick in Garfield’s fur balls. Surreal, silly, sublime, just like their creators.’
Kyle Starks – ‘I’ve put up a very limited number of color swatch commissions on the store – act fast if you want one!’
Emma Frost by Kris Anka, some Hellfire Club variant or other…
And another by Betsy Cola…
And Nick Dragotta
And Dustin Nguyen
Darwyn Cooke –
Stuff By Mark – Blondie as an Archie comic
Bruce McKorkindale – new Muppets/Prisoner commission
Nicola Scott‘s four covers (art by Annette Kwok) for the Tales of the Teen Titans one-shots…
And a variant for the same by Javier Rodriguez…
And after seeing those, I went off to look for the George Perez Tales of the Teen Titans 4-issue series and then found loads more wonderful Teen Titans covers… be rude not to share them with you.
Perez did 50 issues of Teen Titans from 1980 to 1985, with only a few fill-in issues, plus annuals and the four-issue spotlight series, TotTT. It was an amazing run, written by Marv Wolfman and a firm favourite of so many older fans…
