Barry Windsor-Smith - Kull of Atlantis Page 2

Legendary!

Thanks Damon! It feels like it!...

Two epic panels by BWS! He was just 20 back then, but his style was already so distinctive and powerful...

Thanks Davide! You're right, of course! It's really clear he drew some big inspiration from RE Howard!  

Grail pièce by the magic master BWS - congrats AL !!!!!

Thanks Adom! BWS is a passion we share!... 

Beauty.

Thanks John!

EPIC

Thanks Kit! This is one piece I hold dear, indeed!... 

I just get one of those for myself, so I was curious to check who are the other owners of those pages... and... nothing else to say, you're the winner :-)

Thank you Sylvain! I admit I jumped at the opportunity when these pages came up for sale. This was early enough and most of the lot was still available, so I was able to pick that one, which I dearly love! But yours is also very impressive, I'll say!

Kull shmull.  That's straight-up BWS Conan!  And it is bad a$$!!!!

Thanks Gene! It packs a punch, for sure...

Like you, I am a huge fan of Barry Windsor-Smith's work on Conan and I love seeing this early piece done for the proposed Kull book. I agree with you that the top panel IS Conan and it's a gorgeous piece of art. I also like BWS's use of screen tones on this page, something he dropped when he started work on Conan. But it works extremely well here, helping to create the sense that we are in a tent or a cave or some shadowed place, That second panel reveals more, we can see that we are in some kind of sheltered area and there are mountains in the distance and the tribe seems to have gathered around some boxes and maybe a coffin, this does feel like a ceremonial gathering. Here again the screen tones do a lot to create depth and shadow. IMHO, it's a superb page and I really appreciate you sharing it with us.

Thanks Bill! It's a fascinating quest to retrace the tortuous journey that led to the publication of Conan in Comic version... Among all the twists and turns, this Kull avatar is one of my favorites! BWS did put some extra care and, maybe, he was already considering evolving beyond comics and towards illustration...

A great piece of comicbook history, and a really nice write-up of the background. Lovely opening panel and a bold page layout.

Thanks Paul! For me, this is a page with two half-splashes, if such a thing exists!