Colin Smith 💙 🇺🇦
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Jean Grey vs The Juggernaut: original art by Gray Morrow for the 1993 children’s book ‘X-Men - To Stop a Juggernaut’.
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Tim Sale on his approach to drawing Batman & Bruce Wayne, from December 1999’s Wizard.
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Darwyn Cooke’s remarkable cover to 2004’s Comic Book Artist
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Original art by Michael Golden for the envelope of his 1983 Doctor Strange Portfolio.
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John Byrne’s original 1983 cornerbox art for the Fantastic Four.
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Jack Davis' Frankenstein's Monster wall poster, 1972.
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John Romita Jr creates the most convincing downpours of anyone in comics I can think of in comics since Will Eisner. As in this splendid Batman poster from 2017, the very sight of which leaves me feeling soaked-through and frozen.
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Steve Rude’s 2006 design for ‘Superman & Batman: World's Finest’ bookends. Which is work of art in itself.
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Superman, giving way as we know he surely would, by Steve Rude. (Cover for 2018's Action Comics
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Dave Cockrum’s splendid original cover art for a 1982 reprint X-Men paperback.
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Glorious Marshall Rogers promo poster for 1985's Shadow Of The Batman reprint mini-series.
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Spoiler warning: none of them are heroes. That’s the whole darn point. End spoiler warning.
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David Mazzucchelli’s original art for the final page of his & Frank Miller’s Daredevil: Born Again. Which works so well that I’ve always struggled to believe that DD’s career didn’t end then & there.
Because they so obviously lived happily ever after. Bless ‘em.
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Kevin O'Neill is dead, alas. R.I.P. My sincerest condolences to his family & friends.
An absolute titan of comics. A unique & remarkable storyteller: brilliant, insightful, playful, macabre, tender, hilarious, terrifying and, always, profoundly humane. How he will be missed.
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Wonder Woman At The Fair, original painting by Steve Rude, as printed in 2004's WW
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Tis simply splendid.
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Kurt Schaffenberger’s tryout piece from when he applied to work at DC Comics in 1957. Amazing that this glorious page has survived. His full-length Superman’s face alone still impresses. It’s no surprise that when Lois Lane’s solo book debuted in 1958, KS was its lead artist.
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Batman & Superman, playing chess in the Bat-Cave, by Leonardo Romero, from 2016. Which is all entirely delightful.
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Wonder Woman, as designed for Saturday morning TV screens by Alex Toth for 1973’s Super Friends cartoon show.
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Frank Frazetta’s cover for 1954’s Famous Funnies
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Marcos Martin’s utterly charming variant cover for 2018’s Black Panther
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The Joker, by Kyle Baker, from 1988’s Who’s Who In The DC Universe Update.
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Splendid alt movie poster for Batman: Mask of the Phantasm by Phantom City Creative, 2017.
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Buck Rogers & Wilma Deering, by Frank Frazetta, the quite frankly awesome cover to 1954’s Famous Funnies Comics
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Santa in a Batman t-shirt: an original Mike Mignola Christmas illustration for DC Comics from the early 90s.
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Bill Sienkiewicz’s original cover painting for the paperback edition of Marvel’s adaptation of 1984’s “Dune”.
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Ghost Rider, from 1996’s The Incredible Hulk animated cartoon show.
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A page of Bill Sienkiewicz's original art for 1983's Moon Knight
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Batman & Robin, from 1990’s George Perez Portfolio.
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Kyle Baker’s utterly charming variant cover to 2019’s Superman Smashes the Klan
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The Batman, by Steve Rude. Which I do believe is quite magnificent.
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Frank Frazetta's original cover art for 1953's Famous Funnies
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Mike Mignola’s original cover art for 1988’s famous/notorious Batman
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Sometimes I think a piece is too familiar & put it aside. Yet this fabulous cover is almost 35 yrs old. Perhaps it will be new to someone.
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Dustin Weaver’s 2011 homage to Katsuhiro Otomo & Akira.
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Jaime Hernandez’s original cover art for 1987’s Love and Rockets Short Stories.
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Original Frank Miller art for the back cover of 1984’s ‘Spider-Man and Daredevil Special Edition
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Ian McQue’s brilliant cover featuring Judge Dredd & Mega-City One, for 2022’s ‘Best Of 2000AD
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I honestly believe it’s one of the greatest comicsworld illustrations I’ve ever seen. It’s entirely convincing & absorbing. A postcard from hell saying thank grud you’re not here.
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Leonard Nimoy from a 1958 episode of “Sea Hunt”. In which Nimoy not only looks fabulous, but seems to be trying out a look that John Cale wore - and wore well - for a good many years.
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Original, exquisite art by Travis Charest, apparently for an unpublished WildC.A.T.s project.
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Original art by Dave Gibbons for a 1986 Watchmen promo poster. Fabulous, I’d say.
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Such a splendid poster by Julian Tedesco for 2014’s Tampa Bay Comics Convention. A real treat to peruse. Grumpy Conan! Spy vs Spy! Superman & Krypto taking a run along the beach!
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