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Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser #3 Pg. 15
Encre de Chine
25.4 x 39 cm (10 x 15.35 in.)
Size of image area
Description
A forced duel between Fahfrd and the Gray Mouser is interrupted by a crazed brigand on this page from the miniseries based on the pulp stories by Fritz Leiber. Mike Mignola adapts here the Lieber story "The Price of Pain Ease". This adaption was based on a Howard Chaykin script, the original 1972 comic book adaption artist for DC's Sword of Sorcery series.
Inscriptions / Signatures
Signed below right
Commentaire
I asked myself why I was so much attracted by this page that I now bought it twice in a relatively short time period (I sold it a year ago and when I packed it to send it to the new owner I looked a long time on it and got sad. So I was happy to see it in an auction again and took it back in my collection. Strange, I know ☺️).
It is in my view extremely well constructed - there is a central vertical line you can find and two diagonal lines formed over the panels by swords and shadows. And if you want, you can also discover a large and a small triangle that start on middle-top of the first panel (large one) and on top of the mask (small one).
The construction leads the spectators eye through the panels from bottom to top and from right to left and vice versa.
This page is an action page but also quite static, it is calm and mystic at the same time and gives a wonderful companion page to the Ironwolf page in my collection (also based on a Howard Chaykin storyline, inks by Philip Craig Russel https://www.2dgalleries.com/art/ironwolf-fires-of-the-revolution-80157)
Two masters of comic art worked together on this mini-series:
The 30 year old Mike Mignola, still relatively at the beginning of his career though having build up his reputation in the comic scene, still looking for an anchor story where he could throw in all he has to give artistically (2 years later he moved to Dark Horse and invented Hellboy, the character that gave him all artistic control that he wanted).
And the 60 year old comic veteran Al Williamson, a master with pencils and inks, who moved in the 90s to ink young new comic artists, like John Romita Jr., Mike Mignola and Steve Oliff.
It is in my view extremely well constructed - there is a central vertical line you can find and two diagonal lines formed over the panels by swords and shadows. And if you want, you can also discover a large and a small triangle that start on middle-top of the first panel (large one) and on top of the mask (small one).
The construction leads the spectators eye through the panels from bottom to top and from right to left and vice versa.
This page is an action page but also quite static, it is calm and mystic at the same time and gives a wonderful companion page to the Ironwolf page in my collection (also based on a Howard Chaykin storyline, inks by Philip Craig Russel https://www.2dgalleries.com/art/ironwolf-fires-of-the-revolution-80157)
Two masters of comic art worked together on this mini-series:
The 30 year old Mike Mignola, still relatively at the beginning of his career though having build up his reputation in the comic scene, still looking for an anchor story where he could throw in all he has to give artistically (2 years later he moved to Dark Horse and invented Hellboy, the character that gave him all artistic control that he wanted).
And the 60 year old comic veteran Al Williamson, a master with pencils and inks, who moved in the 90s to ink young new comic artists, like John Romita Jr., Mike Mignola and Steve Oliff.
Publication
- Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser
- Dark Horse Comics
- 03/2007
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A propos de Mike Mignola
Mike Mignola est un dessinateur américain contemporain de comics publiant notamment chez Dark Horse et principalement connu pour sa série Hellboy.
