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Congrats, John! Kirby and Wood together is "WOW!" And the photo of Jack and Roz from the '50s you shared is priceless.
Holy smoke, is this wonderful. The detail uin the texturing is fantastic. Congratulations!
What an absolutely fantastic example. You couldn't ask for better in a Sky Masters example than a strip from the Mayday story. There is real drama and poignancy in that last panel. Kirby is celebrated for the force and power in his art and the wild imagination, but I don't hear as much about his narrative subtlety. Congratulations, John! I'm happy for you.
Congrats on getting it back. I had one of these once upon a timem and regretted parting with it almost immediately and throughout the decades. Nice to have a page here with Jan featured prominently in most panels. These are nifty pages!
I love Overseas Weekly pages like this by Wood that invite the eye to swim in all the intricate and lovingly rendered details. This sequence has the requisite lovely Wood girl, and that fantastic horizontal panel atop the second tier. Congratulations on landing such a great example!
Once upon a time, I believed naively that the time might come when I, too, would post a piece in CAF that was impressive enough to garner over thirty comments. Soberly, I know now that this is unlikely to happen.
Your wonderful piece here is every bit deserving of all its accolades! This reminds me hugely of the great superhero illustrations he used to do for Marty Greim's fanzine, Comic Crusader. CONGRATS, ROBERT!!!!
Wood's male characters were always firm-jawed, often double-lit, and steely-eyed. The beauty of the ink line is always the major draw on a Wood page. These S&S Marvel and Warren stories have always been my favorites among his works. And I dig those crazy horned caps that he drew so often.
Wood's art was consciously harkening back to his inspired EC work during this period. The laborious zip-a-tone application enhanced the beauty of the inks, and created art that was distinctive and luscious.
Blown away. Absolutely wonderful, especially mounted together as here. True Art.
It took the CAF Best Of contest to bring this to my attention. (I voted for it.) Offbeat and beautiful. Stunning, actually. And I wonder what the medium is. It's a Wow!
Aw, yeah. 100% with you here on the magnificence of this art page and this memorable story. An adolescent high point in comics reading for me as well. Big congrats!
"Hulk ready for Chrissmas now!" Seriously, I prefer a scary-looking Hulk as seen here to a "Stoopid Hulk" interpretation, and Jethro did a great job of conveying that. The original conception by Kirby was damned terrrifying, and the character lost something over the years for me when this aspect was downplayed.Congrats, Danny, wow, your collection has really grown, and seems to be procreating!
The beauty of those clean inked lines and contours is something to behold. And those are indisputably Kirby-drawn buildings in the background.
Quit tomcattin', Axa! Single panel daily strips are always a little special (insets regardless).
This looks like an older piece, from his prime era that initially caused me to look closer at his work. I love that era.
Great catch! Knowing of Wood's personality and his attitudes towards his mainstream '60 comic book work as revealed in print in the Bhob Stewart book, I think the interpretation I've heard is valid as far as what Wood seems to be saying ruefully and cynically here.
No comments on this? That's simply insane. The face on that badass Drac takes the kewpie doll prize here. Who would win in this epic confrontation? My money's on Big Frank. Looks like the fetching victim will be of no help whatsoever. Beautiful Timm piece, congrats!
This is precious. That expression on her face says it all., It's nice to see such a subtle Omaha piece.
Lots of strong art on CAF today! This not the least of it. What a fun and lovely homage, beautifully rendered by Paul.
This is a beauty. Arantza's delineation of the curves of both sinuous hip and belly is very sensual, without being vulgar. The belly has real human weight to it. And I love her face.
Holy heck. that's an outstanding piece. Would love to see her do more with this character.
True! DC should do this. Three other good ones from this era were a brilliant Twilight Zone homage in House of Secrets written by Jack Oleck that was reminiscent of Wood's best EC work, The King of the Ring in Plop!, and 'Sno Fun in House of Mystery. And what about those gorgeous Kane(pencils)/Wood(inks) collaborations in an issue of House of Mystery (#80, I believe)? Wood was on fire during this era, before his stroke. Your page is delightful, congrats!
OOps! And of course I meant to type that the Organziation 2-parter was in #10-11, not #9-10!
Re: your last paragraph:
Exactly. You summed this up well. This is the nature of the demon in the bottle that some of us grapple with here, in our pursuits of this particular, curious form of personal happiness.
I'm chagrined, by the way, to read that the great Wood had nothing to do with not only the pencils but also the inks of that memorable Organization 2-parter in DD #9-10 (a favorite childhood story). I've read elsewhere that Bob Powell had much to do with the art in those issues, but this is the first time I've heard this. Wood didn't visually conceive and pencil and ink those panels of Frog Man, my favorite? I'm reeling...
Big CONGRATS for landing this page!
I greatly enjoyed Jim Sherman's renditions of the LoSH, and always thought there should've been more of it. The Dawnstar portrait is beautiful. Congrats, Aidan! How on earth do you find all this Legion art?
Eh...it's OK.
But seriously, I don't know which is more striking, the figure articulation or the beguiling face.
I've just rediscovered my teenaged enthusiasm for this book, so it's a nice coincidence to see this here. I really like Grainger over Kirby. It's not as heavy on Jack as Royer, or as erratic as Colletta. The Petrified Man was a visually terrific Kirby creation. Nice catch of a page, congrats!
You have so many wonderful Swampy pages, and it's tempting to comment on all of them. But what could I say over and over that hasn't been said already? So, compromisingly, I'll single out the page I would probably die most happily over, if it were mine. Sadly, I've never had a clear shot at a Wrightson piece, in spite of thirty years of passionate collecting. But we can always aspire, right?
This page has that big, bold splash, with all those deep and gorgeous blacks. And it has nice panel shots of two prominent monsters in the S.T. mythos. Most of all, I love the way the background and foreground shadows dovetail between panels two and three. A fantastic example, from one of the greatest comic book series ever.
I've been scanning the new art on CAF this lazy morning. 115 pages in, and this piece finally became the one to stop me in my tracks. Wow, just wow. Super congrats!
Wordy as hell, but inks so lush you could swim in them. Magnificence. Congrats!
I don't see enough Archie Dickens art here. I'm happy I reclaimed "my" Archie piece, and bought it back for my collection.It's in my CAF, if you'd care to look. Yours is historic. And whimsically fetching, as always with Archie.
My God, those costumes suck. I'm sure I'll see it anyway.
Whew, kinda breathtaking. You are so lucky to own this. This artist's self-perception is endlessly fascinating to me. Congrats!
Magnificent indeed. The face impresses like a powerful dream. Joe's done a lot of these, but this may be his best (?).
The black and contrasting texture in that first panel just sing to me. Robbins is a strangely fascinating artist. Congrats!
