Farewell, Gene Colan
Jun. 24th, 2011 09:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
filkertomGreat sadness. Gene Colan, one of the finest comic artists ever, has passed away at the age of 84. Mark Evanier has a great tribute.
If you read comics, especially the offbeat ones, you knew Colan's work. Batman, Daredevil, Iron Man, Dr. Strange, Howard the Duck, Dracula, Night Force... heck, he won the Eisner (with Ed Brubaker) for Best Single Issue just last year for Captain America #601.
His work was distinctive -- it's impossible to mistake a Colan picture for anybody else -- almost Hitchcockian with its moody, expressive, cinematic energy. He and Marv Wolfman took Tomb of Dracula -- what, by rights, should've been no more than a silly horror comic -- and turned it into a powerhouse that upended the Marvel Universe (not incidentally, co-creating Blade The Vampire Slayer, who's had a few turns around the multiplex with Wesley Snipes). He did the same with Howard the Duck. His runs on Batman, Deterctive, and Daredevil are the stuff of legends.
Good rest to you, sir. We miss you, and we thank you.
If you read comics, especially the offbeat ones, you knew Colan's work. Batman, Daredevil, Iron Man, Dr. Strange, Howard the Duck, Dracula, Night Force... heck, he won the Eisner (with Ed Brubaker) for Best Single Issue just last year for Captain America #601.
His work was distinctive -- it's impossible to mistake a Colan picture for anybody else -- almost Hitchcockian with its moody, expressive, cinematic energy. He and Marv Wolfman took Tomb of Dracula -- what, by rights, should've been no more than a silly horror comic -- and turned it into a powerhouse that upended the Marvel Universe (not incidentally, co-creating Blade The Vampire Slayer, who's had a few turns around the multiplex with Wesley Snipes). He did the same with Howard the Duck. His runs on Batman, Deterctive, and Daredevil are the stuff of legends.
Good rest to you, sir. We miss you, and we thank you.
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Date: 2011-06-24 11:13 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-06-25 12:20 am (UTC)We should all be so lucky!