Another post listing some of my favourite covers from the 80s, and probably my first encounters with the American Graphic Novel format. Looking back at those now I think that the 80s were a very fertile ground for comics, especially with the rise of independent comics — and the Big Two (Marvel and DC) put out a remarkable amount of more left field work (sometimes using company characters) in their range of prestige format books. I was pretty much a Marvel Zombie back then, and the “Marvel Graphic Novel” label in the corner or at the top of their books meant I was going to be in for a treat: psychedelic art & stories by the likes of Rick Veitch and P. Craig Russell — not to mention the incredible graphic storytelling — and Bill Sienkiewicz on pretty much everything, from covers to movie adaptations…
So here are a few of my favourites from, to me at least, a golden era in comics:
November 29th, 2009
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November 29th, 2009
I don’t want to transform this blog in a graphic novel forum but I strongly suggest the reading of “Dracula – A Symphony In Moonlight And Nightmares” by Jon J Muth also part of the Marvel Graphic Novel collection (http://bit.ly/8bshu8).
November 29th, 2009
@Ben —
Don’t think I’ve read that one. Will check it out. Thanks!
November 29th, 2009
And by the same Jon J Muth & Bill Sienkiewicz, Havok & Wolverine: Meltdown (http://bit.ly/73QcGJ), pretty amazing, one artist is drawing the Havok story parts and the other the Wolverine ones. Fantastic typography on the covers as well, but not part of the Marvel Graphic Novel…
November 29th, 2009
@Ben —
Oh yeah, I have Havok & Wolverine: Meltdown (which is actually John J Muth & Kent Williams).
November 29th, 2009
Oups! My mistake: Kent Williams of course!