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Post by tarkintino on Dec 12, 2017 22:01:46 GMT -5
One of the funnier incidents in Gil's career, in retrospect if not at the time - he was asked to draw a cover for WildC.A.T.S./Aliens, and due to miscommunication with the editor, Gil drew a generic alien, not the Giger aliens from the movie series. The editor had to double the inker's fee to have him redraw the alien.   Kane's original alien might have been incorrect, but it was an amazing, detailed design. Beautiful work. |
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Post by kirby101 on Dec 12, 2017 23:08:51 GMT -5
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Post by Prince Hal on Dec 12, 2017 23:17:29 GMT -5
Maybe I should've entered this one?  Love this cover. So much going on, but not a line or a figure takes away from the composition.  |
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Post by Prince Hal on Dec 12, 2017 23:27:34 GMT -5
This one is so appealing to me. No real action, but the way Flash's costume comes to life as it bursts from Barry's ring is astonishing. Kane takes a mundane moment you've seen dozens of times, looks at it from a unique perspective,makes it dynamic, realistic and suspenseful all at once, and makes Flash's costume look alive and exciting. If you think that would be easy to do, imagine how an artist like Ernie Chua or Sal Buscema would handle it. (Sorry, lovers of journeymen artists.)  |
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Post by rom on Dec 13, 2017 10:46:46 GMT -5
Great thread. As a kid who primarily started collecting comics in the early-mid '80's, the great & iconic Gil Kane was one of my favorite artists. His art definitely elevated any title he worked on.
I don't know how to post screen shots, but some of his best work included these comics he drew back in the day:
-The 2?! Conan the Barbarian issues he drew in the early?! '80's. Great story involving Conan running into a long lost friend, and the battle scenes were amazing. IMHO these comics featured some of Kane's best work. It's too bad he didn't draw more Conan issues.
- DC's "Sword of the Atom" mini-series (also 1980's) - amazing. This was collected in a Trade some time ago.
-His work on Superman back in the '80's. I was never a huge Supes fan, but Kane's art made these issues interesting to me. This was collected in a HC some time ago. |
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Post by Farrar on Dec 13, 2017 14:17:09 GMT -5
Maybe I should've entered this one? Love this cover. So much going on, but not a line or a figure takes away from the composition. I love this cover so much, especially the twisting of the main character's body, with some limbs in the foreground/upstage (closer to the viewer/reader) and others downstage/further back. What perspective! Also, as on the Flash cover you posted: the feet. Kane drew the best boots/shoes IMO. They weren't just flat or potato-shaped; I love the in-and-out shape of his feet whether shod in boots, shoes, etc. and how he drew soles. OK, maybe I'm a shoe/foot fetishist  but I always notice and get a kick*** out of of Kane's feet. ***pun fully intended of course |
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Post by Farrar on Dec 13, 2017 14:21:37 GMT -5
Thanks for the link to the siskoid blog, kirby101 As for the great Marvel Premiere cover you posted in the contest, it always reminds me of an earlier Kane/Adkins cover.   |
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Post by Icctrombone on Dec 13, 2017 14:29:14 GMT -5
To my knowledge this is the first time Kane drew the Avengers  |
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Dec 13, 2017 14:40:41 GMT -5
Ooh. Anyone have the Green Lantern story where they obviously ran out of space and the story ends with Gil Kane at his drawing table "Hey! I'm Gil Kane! Now we only have one page left but I'm gonna tell you what happened!" |
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Post by MDG on Dec 13, 2017 15:12:54 GMT -5
Maybe I should've entered this one? Love this cover. So much going on, but not a line or a figure takes away from the composition. I love this cover so much, especially the twisting of the main character's body, with some limbs in the foreground/upstage (closer to the viewer/reader) and others downstage/further back. What perspective! Also, as on the Flash cover you posted: the feet. Kane drew the best boots/shoes IMO. They weren't just flat or potato-shaped; I love the in-and-out shape of his feet whether shod in boots, shoes, etc. and how he drew soles. OK, maybe I'm a shoe/foot fetishist but I always notice and get a kick*** out of of Kane's feet. ***pun fully intended of course It reminds me of this one that I almost used in the contest.  I knew I was getting good at ID'ing the DC artists (who all looked the same to me until I met my roommate in college and started collecting again) when I looked at Batman's hands and realized it was obviously Kane (Gil, not Bob) |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 13, 2017 15:25:13 GMT -5
Kane's cover to Anything Goes #1 featuring Savage...  The Edge #3 Kane's creaor-owned venture with Steven Grant for Malibu's Bravura line  The Kane cover to Adventures of Red Sonja Vol. 1 (there's also a Frank Thorne cover to this volume)  -M |
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Post by kirby101 on Dec 13, 2017 16:31:07 GMT -5
Thanks for the link to the siskoid blog, kirby101 As for the great Marvel Premiere cover you posted in the contest, it always reminds me of an earlier Kane/Adkins cover. That was my second choice for the contest. |
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Post by tarkintino on Dec 13, 2017 17:39:51 GMT -5
Seeing MDG's Brave and the Bold cover instantly reminded me that Kane loved to repeat themes, this time the hero struggling with his building ascent (same angle) on the left foreground, while a villain (well, one a half villain) approaches from the lower background. Both with purple as a dominant costume color.  |
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Post by Farrar on Dec 13, 2017 23:06:42 GMT -5
Ooh. Anyone have the Green Lantern story where they obviously ran out of space and the story ends with Gil Kane at his drawing table "Hey! I'm Gil Kane! Now we only have one page left but I'm gonna tell you what happened!" Sounds interesting. Here are a couple of pages from GL #45 but I don't think this is what you are referring to, because the premise is different from what you've described. He's also in a panel mid-story in GL #29.   |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2017 0:33:55 GMT -5
One of Kane's final projects was also an interesting one, a kind of Elseworlds (but not really) Superman book entitled Blood of My Ancestors that he co-plotted with Steven Grant, and he and John Buscema split up the pencils and Kevin Nowlan inked the entire book (it was also one of Buscema's last projects). An alien releases hereditary memories within Superman and reveals the story of the founding of the House of El in the distant past of Krypton. Kane does pages 1-24, Buscema 25-64. Cover by Buscema & Nolan...  some pages by Kane...   and pages by Buscema...   I believe Kane fell ill while doing the book and that's why Buscema was brought in to finish it, but I don't know the full story. -M |
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but I always notice and get a kick*** out of of Kane's feet.
