Tag: Art
Beekeepers — Jan van der Straet
The Survivor — Rene Magritte
Bootleg Whiskey — Jacob Lawrence
In the Cinema — Malcolm Drummond
Hope — George Frederic Watts
Sunday Comics
Pages from issues 23, 24, and 25 of The Saga of the Swamp Thing, 1984. Art by Stephen Bissette and John Totleben; coloring by Tatjana Wood. Script by Alan Moore.
I’ve been rereading Moore’s run on Swamp Thing and am amazed anew at the comic’s cinematic construction, moody tone, and mix of simplicity and depth in storytelling. Wood’s moody, atmospheric coloring is unlike anything I can think of in contemporary 1980’s “superhero” comics, and Swamp Thing’s detailed contours seem impossible without Totleben’s intricate inking. I plan to write a “thing” on Moore’s Swamp Thing era down the line, but for now, I’m surprised at now just how well it holds up, but how well-constructed the team’s efforts were, right out of the gate on the early issues.
A Little Taste Outside of Love –Mickalene Thomas
Blood — Barkley L. Hendricks
Vámonos para La Habana
Untitled — Kenne Gregoire
Don Quixote and Sancho Panza — Gely Korzhev
Resting — Henry Taylor
Untitled — Hans-Georg Rauch
From HG Rauch’s En Masse (Collier, 1975).
No point at all
From “Swamped,” The Saga of the Swamp Thing #22, March, 1984. Art by Stephen Bissette and John Totleben; coloring by Tatjana Wood. Script by Alan Moore.
Two Girls with a Book — Isabel Bishop
Girl in a Red Dress — Charles Alston
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