Over on his blog Darwyn Cooke has an in-depth and interesting look at the art from Jonah Hex #50 where he spends time describing the process of experimenting with his art style, his influences and the sterling work of his colourist Dave Stewart:
Couple of teaser quotes from Cooke:
“The technique applied to the inks on Hex is an amalgam of several great adventure artists filtered through the hand of a guy many are convinced normally inks with a corncob.
Moebius, John Severin, Reed Crandall, Jack Davis and Walt Simonson all had immense effects on me as a young artist and you’ll see that in the linework on Hex.”
“As I reached the last few pages of the issue something dawned on me. I flipped back through for confirmation and was stunned to realize that somehow Dave had coloured every daytime sky something other than blue.”
Jonah Hex #50 should be in stores about now and online from FPI’s comic store.
Sun, Dec 6, 2009
Comics and cartoons