Saturday, 14 August 2010

Battle

This is one of my favourite covers ever. It makes me wonder what Battle would have looked like with Mike McMahon as one of it's creators. I wonder what the story was behind MMcM drawing this cover? Maybe Rufus D could elaborate? There's another taste of WW2 art here and here from RD's collection of original comic art.

5 comments:

  1. Ade Salmon20 March 2011 at 12:21

    Never seen this - it's brilliant!

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  2. crow20 March 2011 at 12:33

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  3. g234 October 2011 at 03:04

    Very nice!

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  4. Ade Salmon24 February 2017 at 17:00

    Mick was asked about this and said that the arm and hand holding the rifle stock was redrawn by somebody else. Looking closely you can see it's different.

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  5. crow24 February 2017 at 19:17

    Hey Ade.

    Yeah, I can see now that you mention it. But, they did a pretty good job of it because I never noticed it before. It'd be interesting to see what it originally looked like. That's the thing with pre-digital art, it's often just a patch over the top, so there's a chance to see the original underneath.

    I recently had a trip to Angoulême to the comics festival where there were many exhibitions of original comic art. It's so interesting to see older originals with paste-ups and white out on them. Two amazing exhibitions of Will Eisner and Hermann Huppen work.

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