Art For Art’s Sake #276: The Magic Of Moonshadow

It’s Art For Art’s Sake, the weekly spin around the Internet to put all these magnificent pieces of comic art in front of you… and damn, it’s all wonderful stuff. So, shall we? Oh, why the hell not?

And let’s begin with a bit of Bruno Redondo Nightwing design shall we?

Alex Toth

Matt Wagner – DC Trinity

Charles Vess – Death

Staz Johnson 

Skylar Patridge – Tales of the Titans

Mark Buckingham

Dan Mora – Batgirls & Nightwing

Phil Noto

Kyle Baker

Tula Lotay

Hayden Sherman – Batman Beyond

Jenny Frison – Something is Killing the Children

Dave Kennedy – The Joker

Daniel Warren Johnson – Havoc

Felipe Echevarria –  Death

Kevin Nowlan

 

And we’re going to end this week with a favourite of mine from a very long time ago – Moonshadow by JM DeMatteis and Jon J Muth, with additional art from George Pratt and Kent Williams.

Published by Epic, the old Marvel imprint for more adult-orientated material, from 1985-1987, it’s 12-issues were just magical things, beautifully painted art on every page, all to tell the coming-of-age tale that’s laced with wonder, tragedy, and more than a touch of satire in there as well. I haven’t read it in the longest time but just seeing the ad for the series has made me determined to find my old copy and sink into its pages once more for a wonderful journey into fantasy.

Moonshadow’s an orphan, his mother human, his father a glowing ball of light with a sort of face. Young, innocent, naive Moonshadow falls in with Ira, he you see in the ad, the big furry thing with a cigar and a really bad attitude. Together, they go forth and… well, there’s a lot that goes on and it’s all quite the story of lost innocence and exploration of the human (and other) condition. Like I say, absolutely beautiful.