Art For Art’s Sake #384: Jim Medway’s Advice If You’re Starting Uni/College

Welcome once more to Art For Art’s Sake, a collection of comic book imagery that’s made my eyeballs pop this week …

We’ll end this week with the great Jim Medway‘s work with the University of Manchester as part of an initiative to reassure and welcome new students and staff — vital reading if you’re headed off to uni or college this month!

Richard Piers Rayner — Four Constantines. His first from 1988, DC ad announcing his debut on the book, through to his last three commissions …

Stephen Bissette‘s very first published Batman artwork — Heroes World catalogue as around 1977

Michael Golden — Captain America

Leonardo Romero —

Paul Smith — Just a few Avengers …

Werther Dell’Edera — Absolute Martian Manhunter

Ty Templeton — Stig’s Inferno ad from the ’80s. And if you’ve never had the joy of reading the series, it’s all available right here.

John McCrea

Jorge Corona — Trinity

Katsuhiro Otomo — Akira

The great Jim Medway, whose work I’ll always love, has been doing a few unusual projects lately, comics-adjacent if you will.

You know, like this:

“Recently completed a great project with Dr Dawn Rose, music psychologist at @hslu_luzern Switzerland. Her Playlist4Parkinson’s initiative promotes the benefits of imagining particular songs, tunes or melodies as a strategy to assist People with Parkinson’s. A tune from in your head can help calm and manage anxiety, and assist with motivation in otherwise everyday tasks that have become challenging. Developing a personal ‘internal jukebox’ is one way of nurturing these strategies …”

But he was also working with the University of Manchester earlier in the year, in collaboration with their School of Health Sciences, with a series of comic pieces to be used to welcome and reassure new students and staff.

Well worth looking through — well worth showing them to anyone headed to Uni/College soon. It’s an exciting time for sure, but it’s also one packed with worries, insecurities, and doubts. Something like this is a perfect antidote to all that.