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Okay, this is one of those things that looks like it costs a lot of money… and really does. A page of Barry Windsor-Smith original Conan artwork. Heritage Auctions, as part of their Sunday & Monday Comics, Animation, Video Games & Art Weekly Online Auction #122101 are auctioning off the original artwork from back in the […]
Once upon a time, in 1984, it was a planned Hulk story called Thanksgiving by Barry Windsor-Smith, which portrayed the Hulk's existence as a result of abuse Bruce Banner suffered as a child. The idea was then used by Bill Mantlo in the ongoing Hulk comic book revealing the Hulk to be an expression of what […]
Move over, Steve McNiven, you poseur! Barry Windsor-Smith is set to return in 2020 to release his graphic novel, Monsters. Windsor-Smith posted a graphic saying the long-gestating book will be out next year on his Facebook page. Originally conceived as a Hulk story in the 1980s, Monsters has had a long and storied development process […]
The 3 minute animated video from writer Noah Sterling and Max Dweck with art by Tom Rogers breakdown the original storyline that appeared in Marvel Comics Presents in 1991 starting with issue #72 through #84 written/drawn by Barry Windsor Smith We've seen parts of this play out in the X-Men films and in other comic[...]
Page 9 from Avengers #99 drawn by Barry Windsor Smith and inked by Tom Sutton I had forgotten that BWS had worked on the Avengers for three issues (#98-#100) in the middle of the Kree - Skrull War The issue features Goliath attacking a Skrull ship, but running out of his growth tablets and having to[...]
At the Diamond Retailer Day at MCM London Expo this weekend, Marvel's Senior VP David Gabriel announced that April would see the the first ever printing of the long lost unpublished Neil Gaiman/Mark Buckingham Miracleman #25 comic, twenty years after it was completed.Then, as expected, Gaiman and Buckingham will finish of the Silver Age story with[...]
By Christopher Smith In this, the fourth installment of our ongoing column series, Christopher Smith takes us on a tour through his own back pages as a comics fan, going down unexpected dark alleys and digressions. Focusing only on the comics and pop-cultural touchstones he experienced at the time, he reconsiders their (at times unlikely) […]
Comic book retailer Tim Finn of Hub Comics, Somerville, MA, wrote to Bleeding Cool, concerning the recent Conan Red Nails volume from Genesis West, reprinting the original Conan art of Barry Windsor Smith He writes;
We received Genesis West's CONAN RED NAILS: ORIGINAL ART ARCHIVES HC at my store, Hub Comics, yesterday Big slipcase, nice art,[...]
From 1974 to 1979 Mike Friedrich published Star Reach, a science fiction anthology geared towards adults and meant to bridge the gap between the underground comic culture and the main stream superhero books. It featured art by Howard Chaykin, Walter Simonson, Jim Starlin, Dave Stevens, Barry Windsor-Smith and many others. It also had prose pieces like The […]
This morning we received a motherlode of Cerebus sketches, mostly by Dave Sim (below) but also one from Barry Windsor Smith (above).There were also a couple of letters, one from Harlan Ellison where he agreed in principle to write a Cerebus story for Dave Sim, but also one from Jerry Siegel, the co-creator of Superman,[...]
Here's a quick peek at the 1:100 variant cover for Archer & Armstrong by Barry Windsor Smith-contemporary, Neal Adams.It does seem to be kicking off, rather...Here's a quick peek at the 1:100 variant cover for Archer & Armstrong by Barry Windsor Smith-contemporary, Neal Adams.It does seem to be kicking off, rather...Here's a quick[...]
