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That's it! That's a good one with Superman too. I also remember one of the closet at the Daily Planet with Clark's clothes lying in it. God that man was a talent.
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I'd love for those variant covers to be collected in a coffee table book. He made his own perfect tribute image for the cover to his recent art book. 
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May 14, 2016 06:12
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Teenage Fansub posted:I'd love for those variant covers to be collected in a coffee table book. HA! I never noticed before that Ollie is straight up flipping the bird at Hal and John in this. Perfect.
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May 14, 2016 06:14
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I wish I could ever smile like a Darwyn Cooke drawing. No one's been happier.
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I took a pick of the artwork from my book. Sorry for the low quality but I love this.  Edit: my girlfriend and I are going to watch the New Frontier movie on Netflix now and pour one out for Darwin Cooke. Madkal fucked around with this message at 06:20 on May 14, 2016 |
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May 14, 2016 06:16
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 He made Hal Jordon interesting and awesome in New Frontier
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May 14, 2016 06:54
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^^^ Seeing that page in context makes it even more amazing. I am going to hope against hope and wait until the family says something. The first place I have seen that said he had passed was Mike Allred, and he has since deleted the tweet. Either it was a mistake, or he did not want to be the first to break the news. EDIT: Holy poo poo, comixology has the New Frontier Special?! It is worth it for Cooke's rendition of a Superman-Batman battle. Unlucky7 fucked around with this message at 07:01 on May 14, 2016 |
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Madkal posted:I took a pick of the artwork from my book. Sorry for the low quality but I love this. The whole thing is rad as hell. http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2009/10/28/a-year-of-cool-comic-book-moments-day-301/
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May 14, 2016 07:27
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The John Henry stuff is just so hard breaking. That comic is such an amazing work of art.
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May 14, 2016 07:28
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Goddammit. How awful.  My first experience with Cooke's art was the Wolverine and Doop miniseries that took over the X-Statix shipping spot for two months.  I'm embarrassed to admit I wasn't at all familiar with his work at the time and thought it was someone trying really hard to ape Mike Allred's work. It wasn't until awhile later I realized that wasn't at all the case and Cooke's art is fantastic in its own right.
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Oh man. This is horrible goddamn news. I love pretty much everything Cooke ever did. I have the original art from the page prior to that hanging in my living room. 
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May 14, 2016 09:05
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 I chose this more because of the story behind it. Brubaker was the writer of Catwoman at the time and had written a page that Cooke felt made Catwoman a weaker character. When he delivered the art Brubaker said that the art didn't match up with the script and Cooke's reply was: 'I know. I wouldn't draw that.' In the end Brubaker was forced to rewrite the page.
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May 14, 2016 10:13
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SynthOrange posted:Well, that progressed fast. The RIP messages from his friends were retracted. We don't know he's passed yet, unless there's something new.
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May 14, 2016 10:37
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The comic book revolving death's door is getting ridiculous.
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Ran into Darwyn at NYCC a few years ago. It was getting to the end of the con, and I was pretty surprised he didn't have a line or anything. He was a super nice guy, and did this quick sketch for me. It's super simple, but one of my favorite pieces.
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May 14, 2016 11:35
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Tucker Stone shared an older, unpublished Cooke interview he'd been sitting on. It's pretty great.
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The man and his work are so iconic. Every scene from New Frontier is etched into my memory. His take on DC is the one I always dreamed of, loved the most, and will always think of first. I am more crushed by this news than I could have expected.
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Teenage Fansub posted:The RIP messages from his friends were retracted. We don't know he's passed yet, unless there's something new. Family confirms.
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I've had this sitting on my desktop for years and sometimes I just open it up and stare at it. I just love the head turn at the end.
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May 14, 2016 16:52
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May 14, 2016 17:36
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I was lucky enough to see him at a book fair of all things about ten years back and he was doing free sketches. When I asked him to draw The Question, he was kind enough not to ask why the hell you would go through the effort to get an artist you like to draw someone with no face.
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May 14, 2016 17:40
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Another legend of comics taken from us way too soon. McDuffie, Wieringo, Cooke... sigh.
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Lurdiak posted:Another legend of comics taken from us way too soon. McDuffie, Wieringo, Cooke... sigh. The very best artists will always leave too soon. Mediocre artists will stick around for 70 years.
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Rhyno posted:The very best artists will always leave too soon. Mediocre artists will stick around for 70 years. Kirby stuck around for a long time!
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Endless Mike posted:Kirby stuck around for a long time! Only because he kept punching death in the face. FACT: the only reason Jack Kirby died is because death is a pussy and snuck up on him during a nap.
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Alhazred posted:
That is loving awesome. EDIT: Like, telling a writer to go screw is often going to be a dick move, but look at that drat panel. The joy and exuberance in it is just so very Cooke. Zero_Tactility fucked around with this message at 19:37 on May 14, 2016 |
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May 14, 2016 19:31
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So being surround by reminders of his work sure is making it hard to focus on my job today.
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For a while my favorite comic book shop was Emerald City in Clearwater, Florida. It was really close to my job at the time, so I'd always stop by during lunch break on Wednesdays, as well as on the weekend from time to time. It's the kind of store that would have visits from pros. Jimmy Palmiotti was a bit of a regular, when he was in the area. I'd seen him a couple times. One time he had a friend, wearing this hat. I knew he was somebody, but I didn't know the face. I asked one of the guys who worked at the shop. "That's Darwyn Cooke." Holy loving poo poo. He is one of my all-time favorites. I had to do something. I had to get something signed by him. I already owned pretty much everything he's done for DC, but I picked out a copy of Batman Ego and Other Tales. (Looking back, surprising that I didn't already have that book, yeah?)  This is the only comic I've gotten signed. I'm not a collector, so I don't give a poo poo about all that. But this is Darwyn Cooke, in my comic shop. I'm not passing that up. After that day, I kept my Absolute New Frontier in the trunk of my car for half a year, in case I ran into him again.
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/\ What comic is that from?
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TV Zombie posted:/\ What comic is that from? Batman: Ego There's a slim trade with it and a bunch of other things Cooke did.
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I'll never forget that first chapter of The Hunter. Not a single word of dialogue or exposition, but Cooke conveys who Parker is as a person and sets up his mission with such perfection. It's a story telling master class.
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gninjagnome posted:Ran into Darwyn at NYCC a few years ago. It was getting to the end of the con, and I was pretty surprised he didn't have a line or anything. He was a super nice guy, and did this quick sketch for me. It's super simple, but one of my favorite pieces. I have one of these in my Absolute New Frontier too. I wish I had more from him though, his art was amazing. One of my favorite artists, sad times
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Okay, this had better not be true. I would very much like to believe that it's not true, but I don't think I have that much faith left in humanity. If Wiebe wants me to drop the book I've been raving about for the last year and a half, this would be the way to make it happen. Edit: Wiebe has responded. haitfais fucked around with this message at 00:42 on May 16, 2016 |
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I don't know, I mean I probably would believe the word of the person who's being pretty professional about a lovely situation. If it doesn't happen now it's probably because she spoke up about it and not because it wasn't true.
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Yeah, I'll be prepared to believe Wiebe as soon as he announces an artist that isn't Upchurch.
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I don't read Rat Queens and certainly won't after this hinky bullshit but, to be fair, didn't the whole comic go to poo poo creatively when the new artist got brought on? Like that's what I kept reading about RQ, the sort of uncomfortable admission that it was better when the wifebeater was drawing it. Again, firing the new artist for the wifebeater is some hilariously tonedeaf, DC-level dumb bullshit, but it seems like there was creative cause to go in a new direction.
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