Leviathan #2, p.7

Artist: Nick Pitarra (All)

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Title:	Leviathan #2, p.7
Artist:	Nick Pitarra (All)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Interior Page
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	254
Likes on CAF:	8 9
Comments:	11
Added to Site:	9/27/2022
Comic Art Archive:	Leviathan Issue: 2 Page: 7 View

Description

Who doesn�t love a passion project? Who doesn�t enjoy seeing a creative team brew a stew of inspiration and glee and wallow in the storytelling opportunities such a project affords? Such books allow creators to throw themselves into concocting a heady blend of the crazy flavors they love the most, and then we as readers get to imbibe the four-color Kool-Aid before dizzily stumbling out into the daylight�

�Leviathan� felt like one such project that was over too soon, alas. The art was uniquely Pitarra, with a little bit of everything that makes him great; the mechs, the monsters, the density of detail and textures, the crazy violence, and (most importantly) his own fearlessly unique approach to telling the story. A Pitarra page is a page where all these disparate elements can come home to roost and fit seamlessly together; a little bit like a jigsaw comprised of pieces from entirely different puzzles that happen to mesh perfectly.

One of my favorite things about �Leviathan� was that we got to see the further development of Nick�s storytelling approach and his imaginative use of panel borders and different POVs. He would abandon traditional panel borders as often as possible and come up with a more imaginative way to move the narrative along, sequentially speaking, using organic elements from within the particular story moment. Broken building walls, snaking cables, EKG readings, even refrigerator shelves - all were expertly and imaginatively used as substitute panel borders to simultaneously separate the story beats and make the reader feel more integrated into the flow of events (without the �hard stop� of the usual panel break).

This page is a really fun example of exactly that, where Nick uses a billowing dust cloud to parcel out the action. The broken telephone pole in the lower right side of the page (with its poster announcing a lost pet shark?) is also a brilliantly simple technique to subtly underscore a panel break.

So much texture to this piece, and his use of thick and thin lines in the top panel to show the relative spatial relationships between the characters to each other and to the camera is wicked cool.

A monster of a page at 13x20, full bleed. Bring on Ax-Wielder Jon! Thank you yet again, Felix!

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John C
Member Since 2014

1 - Posted on 9/27/2022

Hope they got Geico.

E DLS
Member Since 2005

1 - Posted on 9/27/2022

Fun piece. I like all the little details. Like the dog on the sidewalk, the bicycle laying in the street, and all the little posters nailed to the telephone pole. Cool seeing all the blue pencil too.

Comic Art Channel
Member Since 2018

1 - Posted on 9/27/2022

Fantastic page! Really hoping this book comes back. Nick said they're working on it.

Ruben DaCollector
Member Since 2008

1 - Posted on 9/27/2022

This is some crazy, wacky, almost surrealistic stuff going on here. But as always, your description is just as good (if not better)! Reminds me of one of the classic quotes from one of the best orators of our time....

"I have words...I have the BEST words...."

Marcus Wai
Member Since 2005

2 - Posted on 9/27/2022

Nick Pitarra’s dragon fell by the street
It checked off all that’s on my list, ink and pencilled harmony
Little marks on paper, loved that panel puff
And story brings his efforts max and other fancy stuff

F M
Member Since 2005

1 - Posted on 9/28/2022

Lotsa goin' on on this one. I love how Nick used bold lines to delineate "panel borders".

Michael McIsaac
Member Since 2020

1 - Posted on 9/29/2022

So much incredible detail packed onto this page. It's the type of piece where there's something new to discover each time you look at it. I'm still bummed out about a Pitarra piece that slipped through my grasp last year. This one is certainly a treasure.

Bill J
Member Since 2009

1 - Posted on 9/30/2022

Crazy cool piece! Love all the imagination that went into this. Love all the strange elements here. The bubble-like mech...The Pterodactyl-like beasitie...the overturned cars...strange posted pix on the telephone pole...It's kind of like a giant playset with pieces from different toys scattered around the page. I don't know what's going on, but I want to know more!

Steve N. Comic/Fantasy Art
Member Since 2017

1 - Posted on 10/1/2022

A veritable easter egg garden of artistic wonder and largesse. Passion project indeed, in spades!

Doctor Fantastic
Member Since 2007

1 - Posted on 10/7/2022

It's SOOOOO GOOOOOOD!!!!

K Gearon
Member Since 2011

1 - Posted on 10/31/2022

Big congrats, man! That ultra downward perspective shot is a uniquely cool choice, and NOT easy to pull off! But Mr. Pitarra succeeds, no doubt. And I really dig the different line weights - keeps the eyes guessing, in a good way, and provides killer contrast!

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