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Mike Mignola ~ Two-Face convention sketch

Artist: Mike Mignola (All)

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Mike Mignola ~ Two-Face convention sketch Comic Art

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Title:	Mike Mignola ~ Two-Face convention sketch
Artist:	Mike Mignola (All)
Media Type:	Marker
Art Type:	Convention Sketch
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	8,650
Likes on CAF:	1 2
Comments:	8
Added to Site:	3/4/2008
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Description

(Obtained from the ever aimiable Fons van Erp, summer 2006)

A pretty detailed sketch by Mike Mignola, done at a US convention somewhere around 1990 in pencil, pen & marker.

For me any of Mike Mignola's art always seems so particularly striking, due to what would seem nifty details, like a gasmask or some extravagant piece of weaponry, or just how a glance or pose would seem subtly striking, even how a jaw or mouth would seem shaped just right.

A pinup such as the Who-'s-Who feature on Two-Face as published in the back of Detective Comics Annual #2 1989. A subtle strikingness, as also featured in my convention sketch, as if it wouldn't be far-fetched to think this piece to being the reason why it would have gotten requested or what it would be made to be conveying in the first place.

Mignola's style seems to pivot around shapes and silhouettes more rather than lines, as well as 'essentiality', as if to be 'downplaying' any nifty details or strikingness for full effect.
Lots of people will just call it 'akin to Kirby', but for me this particular essentiality or soberness has Mike Mignola's art seem unique to me. Or people making art particularly captivating will just be swell.

As if "form would follow out of functionality", as long as esthetics would be striking or telling enough, which would sound like Frank Lloyd Wright or actually his boss Louis Sullivan, but not quite.

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Emanuele A.
Member Since 2005

Posted on 3/7/2008

WoooooooooooooooooW !!!

Fons van Erp
Member Since 2005

Posted on 3/7/2008

I am glad this one got to a good home!

Leo Anderson
Member Since 2006

Posted on 5/13/2008

man, that is amazing!

aric shapiro
Member Since 2006

Posted on 2/23/2009

awesome

Mike W
Member Since 2007

Posted on 3/2/2009

Terrific!!

Doctor Fantastic
Member Since 2007

Posted on 4/27/2009

That is so cool! He put a lot of love into this one.

John Painz
Member Since 2005

Posted on 7/1/2016

Original owner here. I hated selling this piece. I commissioned it from Mike sometime in the late 80s at a Big Apple Comic Con, I believe, at the Pennsylvania Hotel in NYC, around when the Death in the Family series came out. Glad it found a good home!

Keez Lagerweij
Member Since 2008

Posted on 7/2/2016

John Painz wrote:

Thanks, mr John Painz! And thanks so much for sharing all that information on this piece's inception! For mye the (Dutch translated) DC comics material introduced me to Mignola so this piece is still the benchmark of my collection.

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