Daredevil "Ascent" A Progressive Homage to Gene Colan: Part 1 by Eric W. Meador
Artist: Eric W. Meador (All)
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DescriptionThis is the first in an ambitious series of commissions that artist Eric W. Meador and I are undertaking. We've long kicked around an idea of presenting an homage to the great DD artist Gene "The Dean" Colan and his uncanny ability to create that bombastic sense of motion across splash pages in DD comics, featuring a "shadow trail" effect that followed the movement of DD across a scene. In this case, Eric and I opted to show nine separate snapshots of DD ascending up a building in Hell's Kitchen and his arc of movement across the rooftops. Each piece will progressively feature a different letter that will ultimately spell out DAREDEVIL and will sequentially show Daredevil leaping onto a garbage dumpster, climbing up a fire escape, moving up the surface of the building, and performing some Colan-esque aerial acrobatics as he ultimately reaches the rooftops of Hell's Kitchen. Eric came up with the cool idea of creating the letters in DD's name by alternating the areas of crisp resolution with those that are less in focus within a given scene, as can be observed in this initial commission. I dig the "WildBoyz" shout out that Eric incorporated as a tip-of-the-hat to the Nocenti/Romita Jr. run on the title. We hope you enjoy each individual piece as they evolve as well as the final panoramic progressive watercolor that they will ultimately create. Thanks, Eric!Social/Sharing |
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aric shapiro
Member Since 2006
Posted on 9/13/2010
The shading here is pure Colan. What an homage! I am just astounded by this one.
Brian Jones 
Member Since 2005
Posted on 9/19/2010
Off to a wonderful start and this is going to be a lot of fun watching come together.
Doctor Fantastic
Member Since 2007
Posted on 9/21/2010
Progressive and ambitious indeed! You guys are like the King Crimson of comic art commission teams!
Andrew Van Embden
Member Since 2006
Posted on 9/21/2010
A truly ambitious project that looks to be a winner, even at this stage. Eric has captured the essence of Gene's gymnastical (if there is such a word) DD.
I am excited to see how this ends up Matthew.
Ken Z
Member Since 2006
Posted on 9/21/2010
Geez Matthew! You must be about to Burst with anticipation on seeing this one completed :)
Carlos DS
Member Since 2006
Posted on 10/1/2010
wow ! Another fine addition to a truly great DD collection... congrats!
Dimitrios Z
Member Since 2011
Posted on 3/29/2013
I love what you are doing with this project. It's very cool and unique.
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