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Cassaday, John - Red Sonja 1, Cover / Red Sonja "Dangerous" Poster

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Artwork Details

Title:	Cassaday, John - Red Sonja 1, Cover / Red Sonja "Dangerous" Poster
Artist:	John Cassaday (All)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Cover
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	3,496
Likes on CAF:	2 3
Favorited on CAF:	1
Comments:	13
Added to Site:	9/29/2009
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Description

On school trips, I remember going to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, looking at the pencil and ink prelims of the old masters (Rembrandt, Degas, etc.) and walking away simply amazed at how they created beautiful images with the smallest pen line or the slightest brush of a pencil.

As a collector (of admittedly a very different type of art), I've been looking for a nice John Cassaday piece for awhile. When this piece came, and I first looked at it, I had that same feeling of amazement at how Cassaday has created beautiful forms, shapes and details with beguiling ease. Perhaps most suprising, is that I blew up a high res scan of Sonja's face to about 1000% increase in size. Amazingly, even at that magnification, everything still looks beautiful, Sonja's pupils are exactly the same size, and exactly even, her lips have a certain ambiguous smile, and her face straddles the look of warrior and siren. Combine this with a cinematic layout that gives me a visceral thrill every time I look at this piece, and I'm left amazed again every time I look at this piece, just as in my youth.

This cover is a bunch of firsts for me. In addition for being my first Red Sonja and Cassaday piece, it is my first number 1 cover, first art as a poster, and my first art purchased from Canada. On that note, many thanks to the great Canadian collector "Gentleman" Gin Kung for showing me some wonderful "northern" hospitality in the sale of this piece.

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Felix Lu
Member Since 2005

Posted on 9/29/2009

If he keeps this up, Cassaday will be remembered as one of the giants of this era.

Nick Katradis
Member Since 2005

Posted on 9/29/2009

Artemis, a stunning cover! congrats! A word of advise - try not to gaze at this Red Sonja masterpiece too closely - in front of the Mrs!

Nelson Animated Ink
Member Since 2005

Posted on 9/30/2009

A beautiful acquisition. A centerpiece in any collection. Cassaday has a very distinctive style that certain stands out among the crowd. Congratulations my friend. Cheers! N.

Ron S
Member Since 2007

Posted on 9/30/2009

Really, a truly stunning piece of artwork. Glad to see it's in a good home!

COMIC PARADISE
Member Since 2005

Posted on 10/28/2009

regrets and more regrets. but some time we have to make choices in life. i am glad you love it as much as i do Artemis. if anytime you wanted to sell it back to me. i will be more then happy to :) keep it safe. best as always.

Crees Tyler
Member Since 2008

Posted on 11/1/2009

AMAZING !!! Just AMAZING !!!

Thomas Rosko
Member Since 2007

Posted on 11/6/2009

Considering this is your first, it is indeed quite a first. The flow of light to dark from top to bottom, not to mention everything that draws your eye to Red Sonja, not to mention John Cassaday's amazing work. This is a very beautiful first and quite wonderful to see. Congrats!

Fred Bronaugh
Member Since 2005

Posted on 11/26/2009

Cassaday will be one of our greats!! Even though I hate to admit it, his work on on X-men has at least started his rise. His work on other books like Sonja only make it more apparent.

A.A.A._Art_Vax! A
Member Since 2006

Posted on 4/16/2010

Slurpppp...Red & Sexi Sonja!

Christian richeloiseau
Member Since 2006

Posted on 5/5/2010

A very nice blade (no pun here)

Jeremy Bloom
Member Since 2005

Posted on 8/7/2011

Wow!!!! This is truly a fantastic piece...Nice!

Alex Bullock
Member Since 2006

Posted on 4/19/2016

Yes! That is amazing. Perfect

Bill J
Member Since 2009

Posted on 8/2/2019

Outstanding! Wonderful image!

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