Golden Age Comic Book Stories

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Jim Steranko

Fanzine and Misc Art

1968 ~ 1977

9 comments:

michael a. gonzales said...: Nick Fury and Dick Tracy together is classic. Even Steranko's "rushed" work looks better than everybody's else. I remember meeting him at a Creation Convention when I was a kid and not only was he nice, but dude was cool as Hef. They don't make them like that anymore.; 1:38 AM
joe bloke said...: just about as cool as cool can be.; 11:13 AM
Booksteve said...: In the seventies, a Steranko contribution to a 'zine was a guaranteed order from me! Sadly, I was young and foolish and actually inked some of the pencil sketches (including the 2 above the Nick Fury cigar sketch)!! YIKES!

All of this still looks better than most anything coming out today.; 12:51 PM
Kerby said...: It's hard to describe what Steranko did, but at the time it felt like a gauntlet laid at the feet of a Marvel line that had gone off into Stan Lee's little battle-verse and never come back. Steranko took the exagerated perspective of Kirby that had by then become Marvel's house style and made it stylish as well as powerful. It's a pity he turned his attention to Prevue right when his work was cooking on all burners. In any ordered universe, Steranko would have gone on to produce amazing and varied comics: westerns, war stories, noir, science fiction, and especially that Talon project. And he seemed ready to do this. Then nada. Anyway, thanks for reminding me why I liked this art so much.; 10:50 AM
Tony Robertson said...: no really nada, unless you don't count his best work, done post Marvel, like The Block, Frogs, Chandler-Red Tide, Outland, Repent Harlequin, and Superman 400.; 1:58 AM
Tony Robertson said...: Did you know there was an ad for the Paragon Number 4 cover that had the real Steranko art, and it was so much better than what was printed on the cover? I know you seem to have everything, but so you have that?
I love your site!; 2:10 AM
Mr. Door Tree said...: Tony Robertson,

I agree, Steranko's later work is as good as it gets, it's just we all thought there would be so much more...we were spoiled early on with the volume of art he produced in the late 1960's-70's! If he never drew or painted another piece he has produced an incredible body of work!
I can't recall seeing that Paragon cover as straight Steranko...where was the ad published?; 3:34 AM
Tony Robertson said...: Paragon 4 cover: It was in a flyer advertising Paragon that was included when I bought an issue of Comic Crusader or some other fanzine. I didn't pay much attention to it, until one day I compared the art on the cover to the art on the flyer and it was like night and day. I can send you a scan. Write me here, and I will respond. tony_robertson_99@yahoo.com; 5:11 PM
Vanwall said...: He's a great influence on the modern look of comics - I still love that one Deadman, I think it was, by another artist, that had cosmic rays coming from the ground, and if you held it to compress the perspective, it said "Hey, a Jim Steranko effect!" or something to that effect. He's a neat guy, I've managed to meet him a number of times at Comic-Con.; 3:07 AM

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