Previews and Reviews that are Z's Views
The art above and below was created by the extremely talented Noriyoshi Ohrai. Although I’ve shared two black and white pieces, Ohari’s color work is equally amazing.
Mr. Ohari passed away on October 27th at the age of 79. Our thoughts and prayers go out to Mr. Ohari’s family, friends and fans.
Source: /Film.
In 1962, Bill Steinfelt agreed to trade Mel Ramos a pile of old comic books for the painting above.
You’re probably thinking, man, I wonder what those comics would be worth today? A lot, right?
Perhaps you should be thinking what that painting was worth.
The 1962 painting titled “A Sinister Figure Lurks in the Dark” was sold by Heritage Auctions in 2015. It was bought by a Dallas collector who wishes to remain anonymous. The winning bid was $173,000.
Mel Ramos created about 50 comic book and superhero paintings early in his career. Bill Steinfelt was lucky to get one.
Walking Dead fans, Charlie Adlard fans and art fans will want to check out this interview with Charlie Adlard the artist on The Walking Dead comic series. [Don’t you love how that all ties together?]
Source: Hero Collector.
Nicolas Delort created the very cool Wolf Man poster above. It is just one of seven prints featuring the famous and much-loved classic Universal Monsters [Wolf Man, Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein, Dracula, The Creature from the Black Lagoon, The Invisible Man and The Mummy].
Delort’s art for each of the Universal Monsters has been made into prints that are available from Dark Hall Mansion.
Source: io9.
Did you know that Maila Nurmi the actress who played Vampira the horror movie host and character in Plan Nine from Outer Space was also an artist?
She was as you’ll learn (if you didn’t already know) by checking out Self Portraits Painted by Vampira at Neatorama.
I really like the Skyfall poster above. Sadly, it was never released and I don’t know who the artist is that created it.
Darwyn Cooke’s James Bond painting must have a double-O license because it kills.
The Bond piece was created for the Lakes International Comics Art Festival and you can see a bigger version here.
Frank Miller is an artist whose style continued to evolve throughout his career.
It’s no secret I’m a huge Frank Miller fan. His work on Daredevil, Ronin, Dark Knight and Sin City are some of the best (and my favorite) comics of all time. I’ve enjoyed the ride and seeing the changes in his artistic choices.
Frank Miller and Dick Giordano’s Superman & Batman drawn in 1983.
The Dark Knight vs The Joker by Kelley Jones!
Last month I posted a link to two dozen painted covers by Neal Adams or Boris done for the Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Tarzan paperback series posted by The Golden Age.
Today we have a link to an interview with Neal Adams explaining how he came to get the Tarzan covers assignment and why he didn’t do all 24.
Diversions of a Groovy Kind recently posted Death Mask from Giant Size Master of Kung Fu #1 [June 1974] written by Doug Moench with pencils by Paul Gulacy, inks Dan Adkins and published by Marvel Comics.
This amazing Bob Peak painting used as a movie poster for Apocalypse Now is just one of 80 Great Movie Posters with the Text Removed that are on display in hi-rez at BoingBoing.
The Mark Schultz Tarzan cover is worthy of sharing. So I did.
This poster takes me back to my childhood. Every new James Bond movie was an event. I miss those days.
The Joe Kubert Tarzan cover above is just one of over 40 Tarzan covers drawn by Kubert! Here’s a cover gallery that showcases 13 of them!
