Jim steranko

My mind has the habit of putting order and classifying everything that it sees.This is true of comic artists and comic styles as well. One style I've recently been thinking about is the high contrast style. It can be argued that Steranko started this whole style off with his later Film Noir style that he used in his book, Red Tide. Jim Steranko from Chandler: Red Tide (1976) After he left Marvel in the mid 70's, Steranko created a graphic novel based on Raymond Chandler's pulp fiction called…

Finally, a scan of this sketch worth embiggening. I put it up in the not so distant, but it was blurred, and I put it up in the more distant, but it was a screen shot from a video, and very blurred. Again, this is from Comics Sketchbooks, one of the many Steranko items available on Amazon. Great listing of ALL Steranko items at Tony Robertson's site The Drawings of Steranko

The Shadow illustration •Jim Steranko

A new book marks the 60th anniversary of Kirby and Wood's “Sky Masters of the Space Force.”

Like the sequence of words in written language, comic book page layouts direct images into a deliberate reading sequence. Conventional wisdom would expect th...