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Eric Powell, Wraparound Cover --- Criminal Macabre / The Goon #1, 2011

Artist: Eric Powell (All)

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Eric Powell, Wraparound Cover --- Criminal Macabre / The Goon #1, 2011 Comic Art

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Title:	Eric Powell, Wraparound Cover --- Criminal Macabre / The Goon #1, 2011
Artist:	Eric Powell (All)
Media Type:	Mixed Media
Art Type:	Cover
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	143
Likes on CAF:	10 11
Comments:	5
Added to Site:	10/8/2024
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If the 60s �comic chase movie poster� can be considered its own category, Jack Davis and Frank Frazetta owned it.

Eric Powell pays a loving tribute to these classic posters � and both artists � with his terrific painted wraparound cover for the one-shot crossover, Criminal Macabre / The Goon: When Freaks Collide. (2011). (Instead of actors, we get monsters and creatures. Seems like a win.)

Davis continued to illustrate film posters using his trademark caricature style until most movie marketing materials employed photography. Frazetta though was later hired instead for his painted fantasy flair. Today, of course, illustrated poster efforts have all but disappeared. Somewhere along the way, styles changed, and the ever-frugal Hollywood execs decided that $20 million for an actor made sense, but a few thousand bucks for marketing art is a bridge too far.

Sigh. We are all poorer because of it.

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Ruben DaCollector
Member Since 2008

Posted on 10/8/2024

Wow, what a FANTASTIC looking Goon cover! I confess I've never read any Goon comics, but I've always admired the lovely Powell art. This piece really does evoke memories of Jack Davis and Frank Frazetta movie posters!

Marcus Wai
Member Since 2005

Posted on 10/8/2024

Powell designs and colors this like the madcap comedy movie posters of the 60's! It holds your interest looking at the cameos to find your favorites! Buddy Hackett? Uncle Milty? Sid Caesar? Nobody is off the table in that scrum!

David C.
Member Since 2007

Posted on 10/8/2024

congratulations, amazing art

Paperchaser 1968
Member Since 2005

Posted on 10/9/2024

....now that is something!!

Duke Fleed aka #1 Groo Fan
Member Since 2013

Posted on 10/9/2024

This is great!

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