Twisted Metal 2 Video Game (Playstation PS1) Promo Comic Original Cover Art

I remember when I first reached out to Duncan about this art, he thought he had it somewhere in his labyrinth of a studio, but wasn't totally sure. After about a year and half of correspondence, I finally got the email:

"Jeremy…

Are you sitting down?

Relaxed?

… Good.

I found the cover! I even found the sketches again, after another half an hours sorting. Good grief!!"


The promo comic itself is one of the rarest comics out there, period. Only 100 copies were produced to be prizes for a Tips & Tricks magazine contest, and of that limited print run, very few survived. The comic tells a canon origin story for Calypso, the infamous villain of Twisted Metal. Notably, the comic features a depiction of the World Trade Center's destruction, occurring five years prior to the actual event.

Duncan Fegredo's wild and semi-cubist approach to the cover art serves to illustrate Calypso's insidious and demonic nature, a twisted genie who is able to grant any wish (often with dark and ironic consequences) to the winner of the Twisted Metal contest. Duncan did so many sketches for the AD, he was already sick of the project by the time he got to the final cover!