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What with all the talk lately about James Brolin<\/strong> playing Jonah Hex<\/strong> in This is Howard Chaykin’s prelim<\/strong> for the cover of\u00a0 Jonah Hex #4 <\/strong>which was cover-dated February 2006<\/strong>.\u00a0 It’s interesting to note that this appears to be an older Jonah Hex<\/strong> than we normally see and the powerlines in the background would indicate that the story takes place later in Hex’s life<\/strong>.\u00a0 Chaykin<\/strong><\/a> said that…<\/p>\n “My inspiration for the image – and this is based on memory, as opposed to actually looking at the artwork in question – was a cover for a MAX BRAND paperback by an illustrator named Roy Andersen – who did a beautiful series of covers for Warner books back in the seventies or eighties…”<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n The artwork appeared in Rough Stuff<\/strong> magazine #4 <\/strong>and can be found in back issue bins in most comic shops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What with all the talk lately about James Brolin playing Jonah Hex in the up-coming movie and Darwyn Cooke providing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[58,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-comics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4342"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18247,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4342\/revisions\/18247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}the up-coming movie<\/strong> <\/del>and Darwyn Cooke<\/strong><\/a> providing the cover to Jonah Hex 56<\/strong>, I’ve been thinking about my favorite artists<\/strong> who’ve drawn the deformed gunslinger.<\/p>\n