Tag Archive | "Darwyn Cooke"

The Parker Problem….

Saturday, May 14, 2011

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Here’s the thing. I love Darwyn Cooke’s Parker series. Love it – and both beautiful hardback volumes – Parker: The Hunter and Parker: The Outfit are on the bookshelf. I thought the idea in summer 2010 to put the first chapter of The Outfit out as a preview comic – The Man With The Getaway Face [...]

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Parker Book 2: The Outfit. Perfection. Cold, violent, perfection.

Monday, November 15, 2010

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Richard Stark’s Parker – Volume 2 : The Outfit Graphic novel adaptation by Darwyn Cooke, based on the novels of Donald Westlake/ Richard Stark. IDW Publishing Total, absolute, pure, wonderful noir escapism – this second Parker graphic novel from Darwyn Cooke builds on everything he did in the first volume (The Hunter - reviewed here), where he [...]

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Nice art – covers, galleries and auctions…

Sunday, November 14, 2010

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From hither and thon…. Darwyn Cooke’s variant Flash #7 cover – from DC’s Source blog. Beautifully evokes the spirit of Carmine Infantino. Art from a French gallery retrospective of Ben Templesmith’s work. More details on Templesmith’s blog. A hugely famous cover to Detective Comics #69 by Jerry Robinson – and now available for your wall [...]

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Ones To Watch: Teasing Cooke’s next Parker tale and a taste of something Sweet.

Thursday, July 15, 2010

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Every week at our Nostalgia & Comics store in Birmingham, Michael picks a couple of comics arriving on Thursday that he thinks will stand out on the shelves as something special. And most weeks, he writes them up for the Superfriends Of Nostalgia & Comics blog. Now, in what we’re hoping will be a regular [...]

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Happy Valentines from Darwyn Cooke and Spidey…

Sunday, February 14, 2010

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I saw this over at CBR in July last year and have been hanging onto it until this special Valentines Day, a day of hearts, flowers, love, romance and probably a heap of regret, sadness and unhappiness as well. But hey, cheer up, it’s Darwyn Cooke writing and drawing Spider-Man from issue 11 of Tangled [...]

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Darwyn Cooke’s Jonah Hex … ooooh, that’s nice.

Sunday, December 6, 2009

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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 [...]

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Darwyn Cooke’s Parker goes to reprint…

Saturday, August 15, 2009

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You may recall I liked Darwyn Cooke’s hard boiled adaptation of Parker. A lot: “Darwyn Cooke has taken Richard Stark’s hard boiled criminal novel and perfectly distilled it’s elements into possibly the best crime graphic novel you’ll have read for a long time. The art’s exceptional, as you may have expected from Cooke. But this [...]

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Parker – we’ve got your noir right here. And by god, it’s wonderful.

Monday, July 13, 2009

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Richard Stark’s Parker: The Hunter by Darwyn Cooke IDW Publishing. Bloody hell, this is good. Darwyn Cooke has taken Richard Stark’s hard boiled criminal novel and perfectly distilled it’s elements into possibly the best crime graphic novel you’ll have read for a long time. The art’s exceptional, as you may have expected from Cooke. But [...]

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