Art For Art’s Sake #263: Looking Back On Darwyn Cooke

Welcome one and all to the extravaganza of comic art that we call Art For Art’s Sake. So many artists, so much comic art, so little time. So, let’s get straight into it… welcome to the art!

Okay then, we’ll end this one with a look at some of the wonderful artwork of the much-missed Darwyn Cooke. But first, we’ll be diving into the artwork seen this week…

Alan Davis to begin with, a few classic Captain Britain moments…

Bill Sienkiewicz’s New Mutants #28 – the published cover and then the original cover that was literally lost in the mail. Yes kids, this was 1983 and back then artists worked on physical pages and had to send them in through the mail.

Darwyn Cooke

Brian Bolland

Jae Lee

Gilbert & Jamie Hernandez – Mister X, 1984.

Kevin Nowlan – Lone Wolf & Cub

And series art from Lone Wolf & Cub, a fabulous bit of Manga to put on your reading lists, by Goseki Kojima…

Neal Adams and Frank Giacoa – Black Canary in Green Lantern #78, 1970.

A beautiful John Totleben Miracleman cover piece…

Mike Mignola

Jim Steranko

Paul Smith drawing Howard Chaykin’s American Flagg…

And a couple of Howard Chaykin Flagg pieces…

And a couple more Howard Chaykin pieces for good measure…

 

To end with this week, we’ll take a little look see at the work of Darwyn Cooke. Unbelievably, it’s been more than eight years since we lost the incredibly talented artist. Such a damn shame, such an artist, and by all accounts one of the nicest people in comics. Much missed. finally, a little extended bit from Pope’s take on the Inhumans in the 2009 Strange Tales volume…