Art For Art’s Sake #275: McKean Covers ‘Hellblazer’

by Richard Bruton

So much incredible comic art exists out there, so many fine examples of why it’s the ninth art. So every week it’s an absolute pleasure to collect some of it together and put it out here before you for Art For Art’s Sake…

Okay then, time to bring forth the artwork, all culminating in some spectacular Dave McKean Hellblazer covers…

Green Arrow #8, cover by Phil Hester

Alex Ross – Nick Fury

Jae Lee – She Hulk

John Totleben – Swamp Thing

Tom Reilly – V commission

Brian Bolland – Batman: The Killing Joke

Matt Wagner

Thor #353 Walt Simonson, and that magnificent lettering and effects by John Workman

Skottie Young – Rocket & Groot

Tales Too Terrible To Tell #1, 1989 – Stephen Bissette

Danica Brine – Spider-Man & Black Cat

John McCrea

Joe Kubert

Ernie Chan from House of Secrets #134

John Constantine by Vincenzo Riccardi

And another Constantine by Steve Pugh

And then this from Lee Bermejo from Hellblazer #221

Tim Bradstreet from Hellblazer #172

Hellblazer #256 by Simon Bisley

We’ll finish this week by going way back in time to the late ’80s and what Dave McKean was doing with the covers to Hellblazer between 1988 and 1990.

Sure, they’re not quite as experimental and weird and just plain big and 3D as the covers with The Sandman would be in 1989, but these were still quite magnificent things…