Nobody does mixed media quite like Dave McKean. Assuming that mask is a full-sized—and it probably is—the original piece is probably around 30" x 50". It looks like he did the painting on foam board, or at least mounted it on foam board, and then broke off the bottom portion of it.
I wonder if he sold any of the Miracleman cover pieces. I've seen a couple of his Sandman covers on the market, so somebody probably has a Miracleman cover hanging on their wall.
We just got our first snow of the winter here in central North Carolina, and my girl’s out playing in it now while it quickly melts away. In honor of that, here's Seth Fisher’s cover art sans type for Legends of the Dark Knight #192 and its reuse as the cover of the trade papaerback collection:
Interesting cover. It has a Saturday Evening Post/Norman Rockwell feel to the design—though obviously the execution isn’t up to that level. I don’t like the hand-drawn blue pencil circles around the heads. I know they were added to keep the image from getting lost in the title logo, but they look sloppy. A simple white outline of the figures, or a change in color of the logo, would have done the job and been less intrusive. And I don’t think the textured coloring—though nice on its own—really fits the design approach either. The figures look too rough in relation to the pristine clean of the background and logo. When you add all that up, the cover just isn’t cohesive as a whole.
Certainly atypical of the normal 2000 AD approach though, so I’ll give them points for trying something different.
My vote for CGS Cover Artist of the Year: Paolo Rivera. Here’s why.
This cover has a great Gustave Dore feel to it—a perfect look for the Moleman and his Moloids, besides being a cool representation of how DD “sees” his surroundings.
Nice hands! No, seriously, I like the way the hands are posed.
I love how the barbed wire mimics his radar sense.
This one has a great ’40s pulp magazine feel to it. And there's a flash of crazy in his eyes, which you figure has got to be there considering his costume, right? And I know the date says 2008, but the books wasn't published until 2012.
May have posted this already Alan Davis and Paul Neary on Excalibur from 1988
I think that was the first issue of Excalibur I picked up. I went back and bought the first two afterwards, of course. Far and away my favorite X-title of any era (I’ve never been into the X-Men really).
I was already aware of Captain Britain, thanks probably my favorite issue of Marvel Team-Up.
Cover by George Pérez and Joe Sinnott.
I also had a great trade paperback collecting the Jamie Delano/Alan Davis and solo Alan Davis run on Marvel UK’s Captain Britain, which had just come out in conjunction with the launch of Excalibur. I wasn’t able to read the Alan Moore/Alan Davis stories until a few years later, and I think the post-Moore material is actually the better work.
The Moore-written stuff is more grand in scale and introduced some wild concepts, but I think Davis’ take has more heart and personality. Just my preference.
Since February is Black History Month and also features St. Valentine’s Day, how about a romance cover a day from Matt Baker? While most people who actually know the name Matt Baker associate him mostly with Phantom Lady and/or Tiger Girl, the best work of his career was done for St. John, mostly on their line of romance titles. Today’s entry: Cinderella Love #28 (June 1955). This is an early example of his looser fine-line illustrative inking style, which he soon would be using with his magazine illustrations.
Sean Phillips first steady work was on Fleetway’s New Statesmen, where he provided cover art and shared interior art duties with Jim Baikie and Duncan Fegredo, two great artists in their own right.
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I wonder if he sold any of the Miracleman cover pieces. I've seen a couple of his Sandman covers on the market, so somebody probably has a Miracleman cover hanging on their wall.
Certainly atypical of the normal 2000 AD approach though, so I’ll give them points for trying something different.
http://forums.2000adonline.com/index.php/topic,37687.0.html
This cover has a great Gustave Dore feel to it—a perfect look for the Moleman and his Moloids, besides being a cool representation of how DD “sees” his surroundings.
Nice hands! No, seriously, I like the way the hands are posed.
I love how the barbed wire mimics his radar sense.
This one has a great ’40s pulp magazine feel to it. And there's a flash of crazy in his eyes, which you figure has got to be there considering his costume, right? And I know the date says 2008, but the books wasn't published until 2012.
Alan Davis and Paul Neary on Excalibur from 1988
I was already aware of Captain Britain, thanks probably my favorite issue of Marvel Team-Up.
Cover by George Pérez and Joe Sinnott.
I also had a great trade paperback collecting the Jamie Delano/Alan Davis and solo Alan Davis run on Marvel UK’s Captain Britain, which had just come out in conjunction with the launch of Excalibur. I wasn’t able to read the Alan Moore/Alan Davis stories until a few years later, and I think the post-Moore material is actually the better work.
Note Cap isn't dead, he isn't the hero @Webhead is referring to above (I think)
Your right Capt. Britain was not the hero I was talking about.
Cover by Walt Simonson.
Cover by Frank Miller and Terry Austin.
Cover by Gene Day.
Cover by Earl Norem.
Inks by Terry Austin.
Inks by Bob McLeod.
Cover by Andy Ice.