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“The Strange Death of Alex Raymond (Vol 1 pp 62-63)” (2020) by Carson Grubaugh and Dave Sim

Artists: Carson Grubaugh (All) , Dave Sim (Writer)

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“The Strange Death of Alex Raymond (Vol 1 pp 62-63)” (2020) by Carson Grubaugh and Dave Sim Comic Art

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Title:	“The Strange Death of Alex Raymond (Vol 1 pp 62-63)” (2020) by Carson Grubaugh and Dave Sim
Artist:	Carson Grubaugh (All)
Artist:	Dave Sim (Writer)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Interior Page
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	1,015
Likes on CAF:	3 4
Comments:	2
Added to Site:	1/16/2021
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“The Strange Death of Alex Raymond (Vol 1 pp 62-63)” (2020)
by Carson Grubaugh (1981- ) and Dave Sim (1956-)
22 x 17 in., ink on board
Coppola Collection

The image first appeared on pp 62-63 as a double page spread in the limited edition of 123 copies of SDOAR vol 1 (July 2020, The California Test Market Edition, available through a direct solicitation at the “A Moment of Cerebus” blog).

The image was also used on the last page of the 7-page SDOAR preview that appeared in the Hermitage Awesomes book, also by Sim and Grubaugh, which was a parody volume of an auction catalogue featuring art from SDOAR and its prequel, “You Don’t Know Jack” and made available during the YDKJ kickstarter in July-Aug 2020)

www.kickstarter.com/projects/1349357665/you-dont-know-jack

left center: Rena; Flash Gordon, 1940.09.22
left lower: Sonja; Flash Gordon, 1938.08.25
left upper: Fria; Flash Gordon, 1939.05.21

right center: Azura; Flash Gordon, 1935.04.21
right lower: Azura; Flash Gordon, date unknown
right upper: Fria; Flash Gordon, 1937.07.16

The original idea was to have the character of Jack imagining herself as she might be drawn in all three of the “schools” of photorealism that Sim espouses: Raymond, Foster, and Caniff. Eventually this morphed into an all-Raymond fantasy 2-pager.

From a process point of view, the composition is worked out in photoshop then that image, with or without having turned it into a tight pencil drawing, is transferred as a blue line image to the art board for inking. Carson’s preference is not to use the tight pencils and then preserve more of the open spontaneity of the brush when you have your one-shot at rendering the image.

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Jeff Singh
Member Since 2004

Posted on 1/18/2021

Beautiful and elegant. Dave did a great job recreating the style and feel of Raymond, Drake and Williamson in these last few years. I imagine this is spectacular in person and it deserves to be on a wall somewhere.

Brian Coppola
Member Since 2009

Posted on 1/18/2021

Jeff Singh wrote:

It's really nice. And... this is all Carson artwork. At this point, Dave was collaborating on the layouts and dialogue, and likely the unpacking of the art styles, but the artwork itself is Grubaugh.

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