One of the first artists to start really breaking that mold was Ed Hannigan over on Peter Parker The Spectacular Spider-Man. Al Milgrom, not normally one of my favorite artists, inked those covers and then ended up doing some entirely by himself.
This cover from the March 1983 issue of Peter Parker (#76) isn't drawn all that well, but the design and subject matter are so strong and dynamic that it doesn't matter. Spider-Man holding a bloody Black Cat was a shocking cover at the time, and Milgrom did this image a couple of years before Perez put it on a cover of Crisis On Infinite Earths when Superman was holding a dead Supergirl.
member comic submission by Lynn Walker
2 comments:
I would say that conceptually this is a good cover, but the poor cropping and layout take away from the enjoyment of it for me.
I doubt this is the pencil artists fault but, Black Cats head and toe have been cropped off the edges, and the way Spidey's head intersects wtih the logo is not good.
Good observation! How would YOU make this a stellar cover working with the same subject matter and design layout?
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