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Pretty Pictures: Patrick Gleason

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 tumblr_mls5n0UWGe1sp82nso1_1280There's a lot to love about Patrick Gleason. He's been working at Marvel and Image, but mostly for DC. But it was the New 52 that really brought him into focus for me, for his work on Batman And Robin. Seen by some as an ancillary title to Batman Inc, filling in the numbers, it became an emotionally complex book and did as much for the character for Damian for me as any other comic.

And Gleason's evolved a style that's comparable to a looser, Brian Bolland, lots of fine, bold black detail, but also an ability to throw that to the wind where necessary. Such as the Batman image above.

He's started publishing sketches, commissions or different versions of his published work to his Tumblr and it's quite revelatory. By favourite has to be the steam punkish pearl-necklace-detector that never made it into the comic, but transformed Damian into Sherlock.

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His initial sketches for Carrie Kelley, including her iwith Batman in the Robin costume.

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Ch'p and Dex Starr fighting over the corpse of G'nort….

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And sometimes just a boy and his dog…

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Thank you, Patrick Gleason.

 

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Rich JohnstonAbout Rich Johnston

Founder of Bleeding Cool. The longest-serving digital news reporter in the world, since 1992. Author of The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne, Chase Variant. Lives in South-West London, works from Blacks on Dean Street, shops at Piranha Comics. Father of two. Political cartoonist.
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