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Savage Sword of Conan - Iron Shadows in the Moon - T4 p.18
Ink
28 x 42 cm (11.02 x 16.54 in.)
Description
Créé à l'encre sur graphite sur carton Bristol avec une zone d'image de 10,5" x 15". La page est légèrement jaunie avec de légères taches le long des bords, des usures et des plis dans les coins, des trous d'épingle marginaux et des marques de production bleues. Sinon l'art est en très bon état.
Comment
John Buscema était un pilier de Marvel dans les années 1960 et 1970, travaillant sur presque tous les titres Marvel. Ses détails et ses poses dynamiques étaient parfaits pour les contes du Cimmérien et des femmes magnifiques qu'il a rencontrées en cours de route.
Cette page du "peuple des ombres" est un parfait exemple de l'empreinte que le couple Buscema-Alcala a laisse sur Savage Sword au début de la série et a marqué une génération de lecteurs.
La composition est remarquable, un encrage superbe dans la contre-plongée de la première case, puis une vue en plongée dans la jungle, avant cette "case" toute en hauteur mettant en exergue l'escalade du roc qui débouche sur un plan très large contemplant ainsi l'immensité de l'océan.
Et bien-sur, Conan en belle compagnie dans chaque case.
Ma première Alcala, je suis comblé, une encrage parfait.
The only problem was, Buscema absolutely hated drawing superheroes. In a 1978 interview he said, “I hate it with a passion. I hated doing the Avengers, and I hate doing any superhero.”
Not one to mince words, our John. So what did he like? From the same interview, “Conan is my favorite character. In fact I recently asked Roy Thomas, or rather I told Marvel and Roy, I’d like to do Conan exclusively. It’s the only project in comics that I’ve ever done that I really enjoy.”
Marvel gave the Cimmerian his own black and white magazine, The Savage Sword of Conan, and there, with more pages to spread out and no restrictions from the Comics Code of America, Big John could really cut loose. Working with Roy Thomas, Buscema drew a series of adaptations of REH’s original stories that still stand as the finest visual representations of Conan’s adventures.
They began with a 35 page adaptation of REH’s “Black Colossus,” with sumptuous inks by Alfredo Alcala. The opening page is an amazing piece of detailed inkwork on top of Buscema’s solid pencils. To my mind though, they really hit their stride with SSoC issue #4’s adaptation of “Iron Shadows in the Moon”. The third page is a full-page illustration showing a wild-eyed Conan about to wreak vengeance on a hated enemy. And over the next two pages he does just that.
Which brings me to another aspect of John Buscema’s Conan that I don’t think has ever been equaled, and that was Big John’s ability to show the sheer savagery of the Cimmerian. A big, burly man himself, and a lifelong fan of boxing, Buscema seemed to have an innate feel for hand to hand combat and rage fueled battle.
-from Charles Rutledge-
https://dmrbooks.com/test-blog/2022/1/10/big-john-buscemas-conan
Cette page du "peuple des ombres" est un parfait exemple de l'empreinte que le couple Buscema-Alcala a laisse sur Savage Sword au début de la série et a marqué une génération de lecteurs.
La composition est remarquable, un encrage superbe dans la contre-plongée de la première case, puis une vue en plongée dans la jungle, avant cette "case" toute en hauteur mettant en exergue l'escalade du roc qui débouche sur un plan très large contemplant ainsi l'immensité de l'océan.
Et bien-sur, Conan en belle compagnie dans chaque case.
Ma première Alcala, je suis comblé, une encrage parfait.
The only problem was, Buscema absolutely hated drawing superheroes. In a 1978 interview he said, “I hate it with a passion. I hated doing the Avengers, and I hate doing any superhero.”
Not one to mince words, our John. So what did he like? From the same interview, “Conan is my favorite character. In fact I recently asked Roy Thomas, or rather I told Marvel and Roy, I’d like to do Conan exclusively. It’s the only project in comics that I’ve ever done that I really enjoy.”
Marvel gave the Cimmerian his own black and white magazine, The Savage Sword of Conan, and there, with more pages to spread out and no restrictions from the Comics Code of America, Big John could really cut loose. Working with Roy Thomas, Buscema drew a series of adaptations of REH’s original stories that still stand as the finest visual representations of Conan’s adventures.
They began with a 35 page adaptation of REH’s “Black Colossus,” with sumptuous inks by Alfredo Alcala. The opening page is an amazing piece of detailed inkwork on top of Buscema’s solid pencils. To my mind though, they really hit their stride with SSoC issue #4’s adaptation of “Iron Shadows in the Moon”. The third page is a full-page illustration showing a wild-eyed Conan about to wreak vengeance on a hated enemy. And over the next two pages he does just that.
Which brings me to another aspect of John Buscema’s Conan that I don’t think has ever been equaled, and that was Big John’s ability to show the sheer savagery of the Cimmerian. A big, burly man himself, and a lifelong fan of boxing, Buscema seemed to have an innate feel for hand to hand combat and rage fueled battle.
-from Charles Rutledge-
https://dmrbooks.com/test-blog/2022/1/10/big-john-buscemas-conan
Publications
- Le peuple des ombres
- Lug
- 10/1976
- Page 19
- 1975
- Panini Comics
- 04/2008
- Page 25
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See also:
Conan
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About John Buscema
John Buscema, born Giovanni Natale Buscema, was an American comic-book artist and one of the mainstays of Marvel Comics during its 1960s and 1970s ascendancy into an industry leader and its subsequent expansion to a major pop culture conglomerate.
His younger brother Sal Buscema is also a comic-book artist. Buscema is best known for his run on the series The Avengers and The Silver Surfer, and for over 200 stories featuring the sword and sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian.
