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Additional Longbox Graveyard Panel Galleries:
- Jack Kirby’s Gadgets of S.H.I.E.L.D. (And HYDRA, Too!)
- Steve Ditko’s Strange Faces (Doctor Strange)
- To Me, My Board! (Silver Surfer)
- Avengers Assemble! (Avengers)
- Thanos! (Avengers Mystery Villain)
- Holy Hannah! (Silver Age Catch Phrase)
- Made It (Unnecessary Dialogue Department)
- Nick Fury By Steranko (1960s Super-Spy Coolness)
- Button Men (A Finger-Span Away From Destruction!)
- Flame On! (Johnny Storm’s solution to everything)
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beautiful art – even the words are more interesting in snapshot rather than being part of a whole leaden story
I love how Ditko applies his pencil exactly where he wants to attract your eye, and nowhere else. It’s a master class in wringing maximum emotion from exactly the right level of detail.
Yeah. Great art. Groovy good post. Makes me think of Andy Warhol for some reason.
Thanks a bunch! 😃
I suppose by excerpting and juxtaposing these images from another work I am a kind of wanna-be digital Roy Lichtenstein.
Yeah. I’d say. 😃 lol
We talked previously about the things that comics can do that other storytelling media cannot. This gallery shows one of the things that comics can do very well — exaggerating physical features just enough to differentiate characters, and also to show character. Most of the faces in this gallery are impossible, so could not be shown on stage or in TV/film (without special effects). And describing them in prose would not do justice either … but a “show don’t tell” medium that allows for deviations from reality? That is one of the distinctive things that comics can do, setting them apart from other ways of telling a story.
Ditko and Kirby were both great at this particular aspect of comic art, with maybe Chester Gould being the original master.
An excellent insight, Prof, I will steal that for a podcast (with proper attribution, of course!)
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