An afternoon at the gallery.
Some of Ethan Van Sciver's earliest work for DC as this beautiful splash shows Bart and friends confronting a monster.
Now we’re getting into some meat here!
Again, the theme of “Buying What You Like” comes to the fore. Here, a page from Impulse. As I said earlier, Impulse was a favorite of mine (although given the circulation numbers for the book, I was in a minority). I believe I have the complete run of the book, I never missed an issue. When Ethan Van Sciver came onto the title, I liked his work a great deal. At the time, it was some of Van Sciver’s first work for DC and he was nowhere near as popular or had even remotely the fan following that he has today.
I can remember championing his work to friends who were (or at one time had been) comic’s pros and I clearly remember them being a bit dismissive of Van Sciver’s work deeming it to be both too cartoony and having too much of a manga influence. So, Van Sciver’s later success while something of a hollow vindication, is still quite a pleasing turn of events.
I’ve met EVS and truthfully, he was a bit standoffish. I used to follow the blogs he and Rags Morales had over at ComicBloc but they stopped posting over there years ago. His work though is simply amazing to look at as this page readily proves.
Check out my Comic Art Fans Galleries! © All scans copyright PJ Mungiole 2011 - may not be reproduced, reused, reposted without permission.
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Some of Ethan Van Sciver's earliest work for DC as this beautiful splash shows Bart and friends confronting a monster.
Now we’re getting into some meat here!
Again, the theme of “Buying What You Like” comes to the fore. Here, a page from Impulse. As I said earlier, Impulse was a favorite of mine (although given the circulation numbers for the book, I was in a minority). I believe I have the complete run of the book, I never missed an issue. When Ethan Van Sciver came onto the title, I liked his work a great deal. At the time, it was some of Van Sciver’s first work for DC and he was nowhere near as popular or had even remotely the fan following that he has today.
I can remember championing his work to friends who were (or at one time had been) comic’s pros and I clearly remember them being a bit dismissive of Van Sciver’s work deeming it to be both too cartoony and having too much of a manga influence. So, Van Sciver’s later success while something of a hollow vindication, is still quite a pleasing turn of events.
I’ve met EVS and truthfully, he was a bit standoffish. I used to follow the blogs he and Rags Morales had over at ComicBloc but they stopped posting over there years ago. His work though is simply amazing to look at as this page readily proves.
Check out my Comic Art Fans Galleries! © All scans copyright PJ Mungiole 2011 - may not be reproduced, reused, reposted without permission.
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