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Look Here, Read: “The Terror of Dread Isle,” with art by Louis Zansky
From The Beyond #17 (November 1952), here’s “The Terror of Dread Isle,” with art by Louis Zansky:
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To read all of the comics with art by Louis Zansky that I’ve posted so far, click here.
Connections: Curt Swan and Richard Corben
It’s a stretch, I know!
Out of Context: “But when they stepped from the space ship…”
Look Here: All five TIME WARP covers, with art by Michael Kaluta
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Look Here: BAD FOR GOOD, with cover art by Richard Corben
Bad for Good has attractive but flawed cover art by Corben, but Jim Steinman ought to have given these songs to Meat Loaf to sing, back when Meat Loaf could still bellow like a bull and shriek like a bat out of hell…
LP:
CD:
Pity about the typographical onslaught at the bottom of both the LP and the CD covers. Clearly, somebody — the record company, Steinman himself — didn’t trust that record buyers would notice the “Bad for Good” tattoo on the forearm of Corben’s winged rock god… or read the back cover… or read the labels centred on both sides of the LP… or, well, you get the idea…
Look Here: Original art for an “I’m Age” strip by Jeffrey Jones
Here’s a scan of the original art for the installment of “I’m Age” by Jeffrey Jones that appeared in Heavy Metal, vol. 5, no. 11 (February 1982):
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And here’s the strip as it appeared in print:
If you’d like to read more “I’m Age” strips, click here.
Look Here: LORD GREYSTOKE print by Jeffrey Jones
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UPDATE (12 February 2013):
Earlier today, the producer/director/writer of Better Things: The Life and Choices of Jeffrey Catherine Jones, Maria Cabardo, posted the following picture of Gray Morrow to her Facebook photo album:
The photo was taken by Jeffrey Jones, and I recognized the pose and lighting immediately! Very cool to see! To his credit, and to the great benefit of his painting, Jones didn’t succumb to the desire to spell everything out, to invent all of the forms that he couldn’t make out in his reference photo, but instead simply embraced the idea of lost edges.
If you are able, please contribute to Maria’s Indiegogo fundraiser for Better Things. Documentary films about illustrators and comics artists are few and far between, but if you want more, you need to step up and support the intrepid filmmakers who are willing to stride out on a limb and make it happen. The perks/rewards are cool, and because Maria has chosen to run a “Flexible Funding campaign,” all of the perks will be delivered even if the total money raised does not match the stated goal. In other words, if you contribute at the level to get the art book (for instance), you WILL receive the art book.
Heads Up: THE CELESTIAL BIBENDUM by Nicolas de Crecy
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Having been published first in three-volumes in French, and then in a collected edition in French, and most recently in an expensive, oversized, limited, slip-cased edition in English — an edition so limited that the book appears to have sold out before it was even published; in fact, when it’s all said and done, I doubt a single copy will have made it to a bookstore shelf — Nicholas de Crecy’s The Celestial Bibendum will at long last appear in a single 200-page hardcover volume in English (ISBN-10: 0861661753; ISBN-13: 978-0861661756) from British publisher Knockabout in May 2012. From the excerpts that I’ve seen, de Crecy’s artwork in The Celestial Bibendum is in a similar style to the author’s gorgeous graphic novel, Foligatto (with script by Alexios Tjoyas), which was printed in English in Heavy Metal (vol. 15, no. 7), way back in March 1992. The publisher describes The Celestial Bibendum as follows:
De Crecy’s comics are mysterious concoctions where anthropomorphic animals interact with humans, mixing fantasy, absurd humour and realism with breathtaking classically styled illustration. Charming images and moments combine with shocking frightening scenes. You never know with de Crecy what turn a story will take. This is the story of Diego, a seal, living in a city in Europe getting about on one shoe and a pair of crutches, who sails to a fantasy city New York-sur-Loire, a grim and polluted port, where he becomes a darling of the intelligentsia.
To whet your appetite for the book, here is the image (from the cover of volume three of the first French edition) that is currently being used to promote the forthcoming Knockabout edition of The Celestial Bibendum in the Amazon catalogue, along with a couple of interior pages in French that are currently featured in the online Humanoids catalogue:
Gosh! London has a slightly longer preview with a sequence of pages translated into English!
Out of Context: “I am of the legion of faceless ones!””
Ragged Claws Network 