Art For Art’s Sake #313 – John Paul Leon’s Spirit
by Richard Bruton
Put down whatever you’re doing, stop obsessing over things for a moment, it’s time for a break – and there’s nothing better than staring at great comics art for that. Welcome, once more, to Art For Art’s Sake…
This week, we end with the much-missed John Paul Leon‘s version of the similarly much-missed Will Eisner‘s Spirit. It’s just bloody gorgeous…
But that’s at the end, before then – plenty of great things to look at…
Missed these at the start of the month when I did the Hourly Comics Day round-up, but Anna Readman‘s Hourly Comics should have been in there…
AL Kaplan – Zatanna
Adrian Tomine
Kevin Wada (who always does the best fashion) – Fire & Ice
Fred Hembeck – his version of Archie Goodwin and Walter Simonson’s Manhunter
Which of course means I simply have to put this up – art by Walt Simonson from the 1984 comic collection of the Goodwin/Simonson Manhunter back-up series from Detective Comics #437-443…
Rick Leonardi – Cloak & Dagger sketch
Marcos Martin
Julian Totino Tedesco
Brian Bolland did do such a great Wonder Woman
Art Adams – Magneto
Marcio Takara – Poison Ivy
JG Jones – Batman, Constantine, Swamp Thing…
Dave Stevens & Steve Ditko – Pacific Presents, where we first got to see Stevens’s Rocketeer in 1982
And another – this time just Dave Stevens…
A few Colin MacNeil’s… Colonel Dan Dare, the vampire Constanta, and Matt Wagner’s Grendel…
As promised, here’s that fabulous John Paul Leon Spirit tale…
