Art For Art’s Sake #296: ‘Playful And Humorous With A Confidence Of Line That’s Just A Pleasure To View’ – The Art Of Warwick Johnson Cadwell

by Richard Bruton

Another fabulous week of comics art for you – this must be Art For Art’s Sake time…

More great comics art this week, plenty to delight your eyes, all ending with the wonderful artwork of Warwick Johnson Cadwell. But first, let’s have some more comic art…

DaNi – Blade Runner: Origins #5 cover…

Antonio Lapone – Gwen Stacy

Bruce Timm – Two-Face

Black Canary by Jason Pearson

Michel Fiffe – Death of Copra #1 – out from Image in January 2025

Mike Mignola – Man-Thing

Will Eisner

Marco Mastrazzo – The Joker

Bill Sienkiewicz – Zatanna

Davi Go – Rogue

Tim Sale – Batman: Halloween Special /Prelude for The Last Halloween

Spider-Gwen by Peach Momoko

Terry Moore – Spidey and Gwen

David B

Absolute Martian Manhunter concept artwork by Javier Rodriguez

And this week, we’ll end with the art of the brilliant Warwick Johnson-Cadwell. A brilliant comic maker, perhaps best known for his work on the Mignolaverse of Hellboy-related comics, but there’s a hell of a lot more to WJC/Wocco…

Buy his stuff here and art here. Support him on Patreon here. For more on the artist, there’s a great interview with WJC by Joe Decie, another very talented artist in his own right here at the Comics Journal. Joe describes everything that’s great about Warwick’s art in this great line:

Playful and humorous with a confidence of line that’s just a pleasure to view.

There’s so much stuff I could show you, but these are wonderful – ‘The Lost Orchestra’ – ‘A touring pit orchestra become stranded in an apparently uninhabited castle one stormy night.’