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Heads Up: DAGAR THE INVINCIBLE ARCHIVES VOLUME 1

Posted by RC at 2:14 pm Book/Magazine Covers (All), Heads Up!, Jesse Santos

Jul 082011

Coming in November from Dark Horse:

Published by Gold Key in the 1970s, the sword-and-sorcery series, Dagar the Invincible, was the creation of American writer Don Glut and legendary Filipino artist Jesse Santos. Volume 1 of Dark Horse’s archival reprint of the series (ISBN-10: 1595828184; ISBN-13: 978-1595828187) will collect the first nine issues of Dagar the Invincible, and Volume 2, which will conclude the project, seems likely to contain the last eight issues of the series plus the story that appeared in “Gold Key Spotlight.”

Look Here: 1984 #1 – cover and original art by Richard Corben

Posted by RC at 11:05 am Book/Magazine Covers (All), Illustration Art, Look Here, Richard Corben

Jun 202011

Corben’s unique method of producing full-colour art by combining a continuous-tone black-and-white grisaille (produced using airbrush, pen and ink, markers, pencil crayons, brushes and paint, etc.) with overlaid, handmade colour separations, gave his finished work a luminosity, intensity, and above all, a texture, that artists who relied on airbrush alone struggled to imitate; it also meant that all of the images produced via Corben’s process — including not only many classic covers but also entire graphic novels such as New Tales of the Arabian Nights, the multi-volume Den saga, and the Heavy Metal reprint of Bloodstar — only exist in colour in the printed versions. The cover of 1984 #1 is a case in point:

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Here’s another example.

Look Here: CAPTAIN AMERICA #106 cover and poster

Posted by RC at 2:25 pm Book/Magazine Covers (All), Illustration Art, Jack Kirby, Look Here

Jun 132011

With pencils by Jack Kirby and inks by Frank Giacoia:

Connections: Richard Corben and Jason Brashill

Posted by RC at 6:29 pm Book/Magazine Covers (All), Connections, Illustration Art, Look Here, Richard Corben

Jun 052011

Corben’s cover art for the debut album by Meat Loaf and Jim Steinman, Bat Out of Hell, is explosive, iconic, classic. And since Bat Out of Hell is one of the best-selling albums of all time, I suspect that a great many people would recognize Jason Brashill’s cover to Judge Dredd 1996 Mega-Special as a homage to it. Still, I am delighted that the magazine’s editors acknowledged, on the indicia page, that the front cover art is “after MEATLOAF: Bat Out of Hell”; I am disappointed, however, that they didn’t see fit to mention Corben by name. Because technically speaking, it’s Corben’s art alone that Jason Brashill’s work is “after”; the typographical choices of the designer of the Bat Out of Hell cover have been completely ignored.