Heads Up! · Richard Corben

Heads Up: More Corben art for sale…

On 19 February 2011, Corben Studios will hold another sale of comic art by Richard Corben. The sale is to include twenty-eight pages from the artist’s DC project, Solo, along with all five pages of the story “Herbert West: Reanimator, Part 1: From the Dark,” Graphic Classics [#4]: H.P. Lovecraft (2002). All of the pages have been drawn by Corben with Sharpie and Pigma pens on 11 x 17 inch Strathmore paper, and small scans are available for viewing on the Corben Studios Web site. The pages will go on sale at 12:00 noon CST.

“A note about these pages,” writes Corben on the sale page. “In my own opinion the book Solo published by D. C. Comics in 2003 represents a high point in my comic career. ‘Homecoming’ and ‘The Plague’ are some of the best line art and writing I ever did.”

Here’s a sample page, as it appeared in the published comic:

And here, finally, is a link to the sale page.

Comics · Here, Read · Jim Steranko · Look Here

Look Here, Read: “My Heart Broke in Hollywood,” with art by Jim Steranko

From My Love #23 (May 1973), here’s a tale of romance as narrated to Stan Lee and illustrated by Jim Steranko:

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Happy Valentine’s Day!

(But what a stupid ending to that story… )

BONUS LINKS:

The Simon Drax Blog: “My Heart Broke in Hollywood,” from Our Love Story (June 1970) — the first printing.

ana_lee: “My Heart Broke in Hollywood,” as reprinted in Marvel Visionaries: Jim Steranko (2002)

ALSO:

Cloud 9: The Passing of a God — here’s a notice of the death of Frazetta that includes the complete story, “Empty Heart,” from Personal Love #28 (1954) with glorious black-and-white art by the master.

AND:

Click here to visit an online gallery of all of the original Alex Toth art for the 7-page story “I Fooled My Heart,” Popular Romance #24 (July 1953).

Book/Magazine Covers (Jones) · Connections · Drawing · Drawings and Sketches (Jones) · Illustration Art · Jeffrey "Jeff" Catherine Jones · Look Here

Connections: Jones, Jones, Jones

I believe the oil painting is called The Puritan and was one of a series of paintings by Jones that were based on Robert E. Howard’s Solomon Kane.

I gave readers a “Heads Up” back on 25 July 2010, and now the regular hardcover edition of Jeffrey Jones: A Life in Art (IDW Publishing, 2011) — a 256-page collection of Jones’s “personal favourites” from a long and celebrated career — is available for purchase at a bookstore near you. I haven’t received my copy yet, but it should be here soon…

Comics · Here, Read · Leopoldo Duranona · Look Here

Look Here, Read: Kafka’s “In the Penal Colony,” adapted for comics by Leo Duranona

From the out-of-print collection Kafka: The Execution by Leopoldo Duranona (Fantagraphics Books, 1989), here’s the title story, “The Execution,” which is based on Kafka’s original short story, “In the Penal Colony“:

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To view all of the stories with art (or art and script) by Duranona that I’ve posted thus far (including two more of the artist’s Kafka adaptations), click here.

Comics · Here, Read · Interviews · John Severin · Look Here · Richard Corben

Look Here, Read: “Interview with John Severin” from 1973 and more!

From The Mirk-Wood Times #2 (March 1973), here’s an interview with John Severin in which the EC and Cracked stalwart can think of only one underground artist worthy of praise; and if that isn’t a big enough blast from the past, here, too, from Thrilling Adventure Stories #2 (August 1975), is “Town Tamer,” with story by Steve Mitchell and art by Severin:

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“They made a devastation and called it peace” — Roman historian Tacitus on the Roman conquest of lowland Scotland, AD 80-81.