Art For Art’s Sake #279: Walk With Us Into ‘Gangland’

It’s that time again, where I gather together, from hither and yon, some absolute delights from that there Internet – it’s Art For Art’s Sake…

We’ll take a little dive into a couple of tales from Vertigo’s Gangland in a moment, but first this…

Mike Mignola

John Bolton – X-Men Classics

Brian Bolland

Moebius – from the Spirit- New Adventures

Catwoman – Joëlle Jones and Laura Allred

The Riddler by Alex Maleev

Spirou and Fantasio by Olivier Schwartz

Wonder Woman – Bilquis Evely And Mat Lopes

Brian Stelfreeze – Shadow

And more Shadow – Alex Nino…

And Matt Wagner…

Paul Smith 

John Watkiss

 

And we’ll end today with a little scan of a great couple of tales from Gangland #1 from 1998. Gangland was another great little Vertigo anthology book which attracted some big, big names to tell tales of crime, betrayal, murder, and all manner of nasty things. Case in point, these two, all underneath the cover by Tim Bradstreet

 

First, Peter Kuper with a great three-pager…

 

And then Doselle Young writes and Frank Quitely illustrates Your Special Day, where there’s a wedding going on and there’s blood about to be spilled…