Strange Death of Alex Raymond page

Artist: Dave Sim (All)

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Strange Death of Alex Raymond page Comic Art

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Title:	Strange Death of Alex Raymond page
Artist:	Dave Sim (All)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Interior Page
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	1,291
Likes on CAF:	1 2
Comments:	0
Added to Site:	8/13/2020
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September 6, 1956: Alex Raymond entering his Mercedes 300SL on the last day of his life. He will meet up with Stan Drake and go on to be killed in a car crash. Drake barely survives.
Parts of this story have been serialized in Sim�s idiosyncratic comic book Glamourpuss. This particular page is #14 page 2.

I would say The Strange Death of Alex Raymond is a masterpiece. A large part of
the story was serialized in Dave Sim´s idiosyncratic comic book Glamourpuss. It started out as a history and analysis of photo-realism in newspaper comic strips (Hal Foster, Alex Raymond, Stan Drake and others), and then it focused more and more on the artistic and psychological relationship between Raymond and Drake. Part impressive research, part metaphysical-psychological speculation. And all of it drawn in the photo-realistic style.
The story was to be completed and published separately after Glamourpuss folded. It was partially re-written and redrawn and taken in a more metaphysical-speculative direction. Then, unfortunately, and for various reasons Sim abandoned it. His fellow artist Carson Grubaugh finished it, and it was published as a handsome HC book in 2021.
Since the publication Sim has started working on the story again, so we may have another complete version with another ending one time in the future.

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