Art For Art’s Sake # 323 – GNNG! AARRGH! GASP! THUD! – Kurtzman & Wood’s Sound Effects!

Time for another journey around the wonders of comic art in all its forms – yep, it’s Saturday, it’s Art For Art’s Sake…

This week, we’ll end with some absolutely perfectly done Harvey Kurtzman and Wally Wood from MAD Magazine, just like this…

But first… Dani Vargas – Gotham’s Most Wanted

Danger: Diabolik – Sam McKenzie

John Bolton in 1988 doing Alex Raymond‘s newspaper strip character Rip Kirby

Catwoman – Otto Schmidt

Barry Windsor-Smith – FF

Darwyn Cooke – Will Eisner‘s Spirit

Goran Parlov – She-Hulk

And then just a lovely Gorlan Parlov study of the joy of dogs…

Gene Colan and Dick Giordano – Night Force #1 (1982)

Gwen Stacy – Steve Rude

Wolverine vs. Hulk – James Harren

Manhunter – Jackson ‘Butch’ Guice

 

Michael Cho

Matt Wagner – DC Comics ad for The Demon (1987) – great series with some early Wagner art with Art Nichols.

Absolute Batman – Garardo Zaffino

Absolute Batman #1 variant cover – Javier Fernandez doing an Akira homage

And if you don’t know what I’m talking about with the Akira homage, I mean this by Katsuhiro Otomo (and if you don’t know Akira – add it to your must read list right now.)

Bill Sienkiewicz – Moon Knight #25

Mike McKone – Swamp Thing

And we’ll end this week with something quite brilliantly MAD – the Harvey Kutrzman written and Wally Wood drawn SOUND EFFECTS! from MAD magazine #20, published in 1955. It is, as you’d expect quite brilliant… masterful storytelling, incredible art…