Just out among today’s batch of new releases is the Dave Stevens Complete Sketchbook Collection from IDW, a handsome hardback collection of some quite lovely work from the much-missed Stevens’ convention sketchbooks. Obviously his Rocketeer and Bettie Page work is well known and loved (rightly so), but on leafing through some of the work this one leapt out at me, perhaps because of my age (I grew up when this show was on and cheesy or not still have warm memories of it) but also because it is a beautiful portrait of a very beautiful lady portraying one of the greatest of superheroines: Lynda Carter as Wonder Woman. Dave even captures something of the light and sparkle of Lynda’s remakable eyes in this work, just gorgeous art:
Wed, Jul 27, 2011
Comics and cartoons