by Mike Hansen
Bleeding Cool says the original cover painting for Tintin in America just sold for $1.6 million, a new world record. To which I say – to my university art professor, who claimed “illustration” was not “art”: SUCK IT!
I’ve got 1.6 million bucks that says this is art.
That same “teacher” criticized me for presenting the class with this classic Frank Frazetta cover:
from Weird Science-Fantasy #29 (1955). Note the masterful placement of every element of the drawing to lead the viewer’s eye.
The previous year, I had a much more open-minded art professor. For an assignment to replicate a masterwork using the same materials (I assume, to see if any students had a career in counterfeiting!), he let me do this instead:
photo of Deathblow splash page by me (after Jim Lee), I think from Deathblow #2 (1993).
I learned more from this assignment than from anything I did in art class the following year!
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