I saw this piece come up and was sorely tempted to bid on it, even though I've never heard of this book nor was I familiar with Tocchini. It's really beautiful, congrats.

Agree with what Bill J said above. Wonderful piece.

I have a similar piece, bought for similar reasons. Rhoads definitely had a nice way with color. Love that yours has all the characters.

Speaking of the words and lettering, something I meant to include above - compared to the French originals, the lettering of this first translation (color image) is terrible! It really doesn't integrate well with the art, and in a few places the translation is clunky. On top of that, this first coloring attempt (not done by Moebius) is very disappointing. Anyway, thanks for the comment.

Well put! And of course there are a bunch of amazing movies that are vastly better precisely because he worked on them or inspired them.

Thanks Felix!

Just seeing this one, thanks to your title. You definitely didn't overhype this piece, it's fantastic! Makes me wonder why we didn't see more like this from Mr. Trimpe (and makes me understand why BWS had so much respect for him).

Great writeup, agree with it all. This is pure, manic Moebius science fiction action. So busy, so chaotic, and yet so perfectly readable and pleasingto the eye. And the way the sound effect works as part of the art: BBROOMMMMMMMM indeed!

A fantastic piece by the master.

This stuff is pure gold for those who love the art, and love understanding the process. Great writeup, and wonderful to see this.

Yes, so much to learn from the Dude. I love your prelims, too!

Ah, the early '70's As were epic - one of the all time great teams. And those names, almost like comic book characters from an old Western: Blue Moon Odom, Rollie Fingers, Sal Bando, Joe Rudi, Vida Blue, Jesus Alou, Catfish . . . and Reggie Jackson. They sounded like superstars, they looked like superstars, and they played like superstars. 

This is one of the great single panels in comics history. 

He definitely does a very fine Sonja! Beautiful!

Haha, that's mind blowing! His loss, your gain! Fantastic title splash.

"Norin, honey, I'm feeling homesick. Will you take me on a donut run? Please?"

This is a great, classic rendition of the two iconic Marvel tuff guys, doing what they do best!

This page made me smile, for all the right reasons!

Brilliant! That last panel is epic. It's interesting how great the page looks in B&W, and in color. BWS really understood comic art in a way very few creators ever have.

Uko is so amazing with colors!

I often love prelims more than the finished versions, and this is a great example of that. This is a fantastic, evocative drawing.

How does this have no comments up till now?! This is a beautiful page by a super talented guy on an important book. It's good stuff.

Just amazing! Not a line out of place.

Great page from my favorite Rossmo work!

Just seeing this amazing piece, congrats. Watching the linked video takes it to the next level. 

Absolutely brilliant art, writing, storytelling, you name it. It's wonderful that you have the two pages together. 

Very sweet piece! Nice pose, beautifully rendered, great colors.

Yeah, we did! We discussed strategy before the event and she went right to Greorge Pratt in the illustration room, since we'd chatted with him the day before and she loved his art. I was already hanging around near Manix at 2:00 and got in his line before it got long, then stepped over to Nir Levie, who had a minimal line. We'd bought a piece of his art the day before and also signed up for an at-home commission, so I wanted to see what he'd do with a sketch card (it's his version of a low-rent Batman!). We'd also bought a couple of Ian Bertram Precious Metal pieces earlier, and Felix offered to get me a sketch card from him, even though he wasn't signed up to sketch (my suggestion was "anything Moebius!)". With those in hand, we had time to stroll around looking for short lines and cool art, and were blown away with what Moritat was doing on these tiny cards, so we both jumped in his line. Then she still had time to get a Spidey from Eranga. I tried to get into Adam Hughes line but he probably had the longest line there, and it was capped early (which I'm thankful for, would have sucked to wait 45 minutes and then be turned away). I also got to Uko Smith's line too late, but we scored a great pre-show commission from him, so that was fine. There were sooo many cool artists to chose from, and they all really delivered.

Did you make it to OAX?

Each attendee got two blank sketch cards (in the brown folders). From 2-3:30 on Sunday most of the artists were available to do a free sketch on the cards (participating artists had a red dot in the program). My wife and I split up, and we were also able to score a few extra cards, so we ended up with 7 sketches in the 90 minutes. 

It's amazing how much the Dude improved from issue one to two. Still a ways to go, but the learning curve was almost vertical.

I agree, this is a one-and-done ASM strip!

Wow wow wow! I love this page. I agree with everything you wrote, and go further in saying that Allred does something here that few DD artists since Colan did with the character - he illustrates that joy and grace of Daredevil doing his thing in a virtually animated fashion, with each pose flowing into the next. And the Stiltman is one of the quintessential villians. 

Romita's impecable staging and storytelling on full display here, with lots of great character images. Really lovely page.

These are really nice examples of Marvel animation art, all with great character images. This particular one shows off a lot of elements of the animation process - it's been 'repegged' and is a key pose in a dialog phrase. Because the animator likely speaks little or no English, the mouth shapes are pulled from a small library of shapes identified by letters. That is, I don't think these are phonemes/visemes, because there aren't enough vowels.
 

What's interesting is the timing chart seems to indicate that the dialog is animated on 'ones' (i.e., every frame) which would be unusual for TV animation, but it might be standard to hold every drawing for two frames, and just number the drawings sequentially.

Only one comment on this beauty? I totally agree with you, pencil prelims are often more subtle and interesting than the final versions. This one is so tight and so beautifully drawn, it looks like a finished piece.

Super fun prelim! You might want to fix the spelling of WIlliamson's name so it's easier to find. ;)

One of my favorite Colan DD covers! Fantastic. You're a lucky man!

Lovely! Too bad this project wasn't realized, Red Nails is one of my favorite comics series of all time.

Great writeup, and great page. I can to know of Lonergan from your CAL video and your discussion of this page, so you've passed the baton of discovery on.

Love it! Really wonderful image, and nice writeup.

Saw the limited edition poster, then found this (via Steve M). Fantastic piece, with a special bonus that it became a beautiful color poster. Congrats!

Thanks for the comment! In revisiting this, I realized I needed to add an image of the rejected cover (from Kevin Nowlan's blog), as well as the colored/published version (colors by Nowlan specifically to work with the new version). It's amazing how dedicated he is and what a perfectionist - most artists would have added some rendering and additional details to the rejected cover, not worried about splashing around some white out, etc., but he completely redrew it not once but twice.

When I first saw Keith's work I couldn't decide if I was repulused or attracted, but I knew I was fascinated. The more I looked, the more I liked it. Great page, great write up.

Lovely piece! I have a soft spot for quick sketches that show this much style and skill.

Thanks, John! Regarding the order, there's actually two pieces of paper here. The firgure on the right is on it's own piece, with the signature, apparently having been cut away from a larger piece, while the two figures to the left are on the same piece of paper with a lot of blank space to the right. I just put them in the scanner together. When I bought them they were in a plastic sleeve in this orientation and I thought it worked. 

Great story! Like you, I've gone in and out of caring much about comics, but when I see something iconic or meaningful to me it pulls me right back in.

Nice pickup! McBride had such a deft, jaunty style.

Absolutely incredible inking and mastery of light and dark. Damn this is nice!

Great summary about part of what made Nexus (among other indie comics of the time) so wonderful.