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Sandy Kossin, American Illustrator
Sanford “Sandy” Kossin is one of the best. You may not remember him as he stopped working professionally some years back, preferring instead to draw from the live model to keep his formidable drawing skills sharp. Selfishly, I never agreed with that. I wanted more and more from him. I wanted to keep running into his work on paperback covers or Boy’s Life, like I had as a kid. Sandy hit his stride through the…
YESTERDAY’S POST
Recommendation and Review: Doctor Strange: Fall Sunrise
June 24, 2024 - [caption id="attachment_77079" align="aligncenter" width="579"] We start here, with Dr. Strange taking a very fluid and magical nap.[/caption] I don’t (and couldn’t) read every comic that comes out. I’m sure a lot of things out there are excellent, and I am personally aware of how difficult it is to make something at all, much less something sublime. I want to talk about a project that moved and impressed me in a powerful way. The last time I was swept away by a work was probably Barry Windsor Smith’s WEAPON X, and probably for some of the same reasons. A corporately-owned superhero becomes the instrument of a capable narrative voice, and the overcrowded favela of mediocre and garish melodrama is escaped for a brief time. [caption id="attachment_77078" align="aligncenter" width="900"] I love the creative ways Dr. Strange manifests…
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