Art For Art’s Sake #382: Comic Art Delights Await You

by Richard Bruton

Let’s dive once more into the wonderful world of comic art — yes, it’s time for another Art For Art’s Sake …

Above and below — Alex Toth — Promo art made for the 1965 movie How To Murder Your Wife, where Jack Lemmon played a cartoonist. Great film, with the art in the actual movie credited to Mel Keefer, artist on the Perry Mason newspaper strip. But these gorgeous Toth pieces ran in The Hollywood Reporter and various newspapers in the run-up to the movie’s release.

Classic Steve Ditko Spider-Man

And now a little more Steve Ditko, from 1999, in response to Stan Lee‘s narrative of being responsible for the whole idea of Spider-Man before passing it on to Ditko to just draw it. Similar to how he portrayed Jack Kirby‘s role. Well, we all know the reality was a long way from that …

Darryl Cunningham — Hyde Park Picture House, Leeds — love Darryl’s work, no matter what form it takes…

John McCrea — Something Is Killing The Children

Annie Wu — Wonder Woman

Marguerite Sauvage — Absolute Wonder Woman

Steve White — A3, pen and ink, done for fun, imagining an alternate Dreddverse where Dredd’s saved from Satanus by Judge Grrr (last seen in Judge Dredd Megazine #490)…