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Philip Craig Russell, Frank Giacoia, Marvel Premiere 7 Page 4 - Comic Strip
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Marvel Premiere 7 Page 4

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Coincée dans une sous-dimension à peine perceptible, pour être précis : entre Gene Colan et Frank Brunner, ces quelques aventures de Dr Strange ont surtout montré que le personnage cherchait sa place (ambiance Lovecraft à la Marvel ? Pas sûr que ça marche...) et la dream team qui allait avec...

Mais, bon, il y a eu quand même d'intéressantes pépites à dénicher, comme ces 2 pages consécutives dues à Philip Craig Russell, une de ses premières oeuvres, encore maladroite et sous forte influence Steranko, mais où de premiers signes tangibles de son style aérien se font déjà sentir (le portrait de femme de la case 7).

Bon, l'encrage de Frank Giacoia, efficace et carré, n'était sans doute pas le plus adapté à son approche diaphane, mais, en tant qu'oeuvre de jeunesse, ça fonctionne plutôt bien !

Publications

  • THe shadows of the starstone
  • Marvel Comics
  • 03/1973
  • Interior page
  • Le sorcier des ténèbres
  • Arédit
  • 10/1976
  • Interior page

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About Philip Craig Russell

Ohio-born Philip Craig Russell studied painting at the University of Cincinnati, before he broke into the horror comics genre in 1972, as the assistand of Dan Adkins. He had an 11-issue run on Amazing Adventures and made a subsequent graphic novel featuring 'Killraven' with writer Don McGregor. He then worked with Roy Thomas on a comic adaptation of Michael Moorcock's 'Elric' stories, starting with 'The Dreaming City' in 1982, and followed a year later by 'Elric of Melibone', which was scripted by Thomas and Michael T. Gilbert. Craig Russel went on to adapt operas for comics, such as Wagner's 'Parsifal' and Mozart's 'The Magic Flute', as well as 'Pelias', 'Mellisande' and 'Salome', that were mostly published in the Night Music series by Eclipse Comics between 1984 and 1990. He also did the art for Neil Gaiman's 'Sandman' story 'Ramadan' and the first story in 'Sandman: Endless Nights', and additionally adapted Gaiman's short story 'Murder Mysteries' and his children's tale 'Coraline' to comics format. For NBM Publishing, Russell adapted the fairy tales of Oscar Wilde and Rudyard Kipling's 'Jungle Book' to comics. Dark Horse released his adaptation of Wagner's 'The Ring of the Nibelung', which the artist calls his magnum opus. Text (c) Lambiek