{"id":30510,"date":"2024-09-11T08:00:08","date_gmt":"2024-09-11T08:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=30510"},"modified":"2024-09-10T16:56:18","modified_gmt":"2024-09-10T16:56:18","slug":"the-dynamite-art-of-john-cassaday-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2024\/09\/11\/the-dynamite-art-of-john-cassaday-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dynamite Art of John Cassaday"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nISBN: 978-1-52410-936-3 (HB\/Digital edition)<\/p>\n

It\u2019s only Wednesday and already a grim week for lost heroes. On the back of hearing of the death of wonderful James Earl Jones and undeservedly forgotten Zoot Money comes news from closer to home as we learn that John Cassaday has gone far, far too early…<\/em> <\/p>\n

Born Texan in 1971, Oklahoma-raised John Cassaday was a multi-award-winning comics artist, actor and TV director, legendary for his depictions of Ghost<\/b>, Captain<\/b> America<\/b>, The Astonishing X-Men<\/b>, Planetary<\/b>, Desperadoes<\/b>, I Am Legion<\/b> and Star Wars<\/b> as well as his unforgettable procession of covers for many companies and characters. His particularly iconic, stridently symbolist use of imagery made his work globally known, admired and sought after whilst his imagination and imagery featured in numerous animated films and poster books.<\/p>\n

Cassaday was self-taught with a superb eye for landscape and location. It underpinned a primal understanding of the body language of evil and heroism and deep affection for the classic landmarks and groundbreakers of our somewhat simplistic genre: combining to inform the astounding visuals in this mammoth hardback (234 x 307 mm) or digital catalogue of comic and fantasy masterpieces.
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\nIn 2006 Cassaday began a long and wonderfully fruitful association with Dynamite Entertainment, generating covers for a vast pantheon of stars comprising generational household names and the best of new concepts, and many are gathered here for you to ogle…<\/p>\n

Following context and potted history from Dynamite Publisher Nick Barrucci\u2019s Introduction<\/i> and a Foreword<\/i> by comics everyman Scott Dunbier, the Gallery of Graphic Wonders opens with 100+ pages of \u2018The Lone Ranger\u2019<\/i> and includes commentary by scripters Brett Matthews and Mark Russell and editor Joe Rybandt, augmenting pencil roughs, sketches and those astounding covers (including colour variants).
\n Throughout, Cassaday\u2019s own colour work is bolstered by contributions from Dean White, Laura Martin, Francesco Francavilla, Marcelo Pinto, Ivan Nunes, Jos\u00e9 Villarrubia, June Chung & Tony A?ina
\nGarth Ennis\u2019 war anthology \u2018Battlefields\u2019<\/i> boasted some of Cassaday\u2019s most engaging images, and those paintings are here supplemented by designs, working sketches and colour variants as is Project Superpowers<\/b> spinoff \u2018The Death-Defying \u2018Devil\u201d\u2019<\/i>, and vintage stars \u2018Buck Rogers\u2019<\/i> and \u2018Sherlock Holmes\u2019<\/i>.
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\n\u2018The Complete Dracula\u2019 boasts iconoclastic covers and commentary from co-writer Leah Moore before a return to pulp fictioneers offers additional character studies and designs for a staggering swathe of bombastic eyecatchers gracing the many series and crossover team-ups featuring \u2018The Green Hornet\u2019<\/i>, \u2018The Shadow\u2019<\/i>, \u2018The Spider\u2019<\/i> and \u2018Doc Savage\u2019<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Then \u2018Grand Passion\u2019<\/i> and \u2018Ian Fleming\u2019s James Bond\u2019<\/i> artworks bring us to a selection of \u2018Other Covers\u2019 <\/i>including \u2018Red Sonja\u2019<\/i>, \u2018The Boys\u2019<\/i>, \u2018Zorro\u2019<\/i>, \u2018Blackbeard: Legend of the Pyrate King\u2019<\/i>, \u2018The Complete Alice in Wonderland\u2019<\/i>, \u2018Project Superpowers Chapter 2\u2019<\/i>, \u2018Peter Cannon: Thunderbolt\u2019<\/i>, \u2018Will Eisner\u2019s The Spirit\u2019<\/i>, \u2018Kiss\u2019<\/i>, \u2018John Wick\u2019<\/i> and \u2018Battlestar Galactica vs Battlestar Galactica\u2019<\/i>, and they are all simply beautiful and unmissable.
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\nThere are many books – both academic and\/or instructional – designed to inculcate a love of comics whilst offering tips, secrets and an education in how to make your own sequential narratives.<\/p>\n

There are far more intended to foster and further the apparently innate and universal desire to simply make art and do so proficiently and well, but here the emphasis is on promoting the artist\u2019s sheer unassailable visual excitement and his treatment of a lexicon of legends. This book will delight everyone who wants to see a master in his element; showing that nobody does it better…
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ISBN: 978-1-52410-936-3 (HB\/Digital edition) It\u2019s only Wednesday and already a grim week for lost heroes. On the back of hearing of the death of wonderful James Earl Jones and undeservedly forgotten Zoot Money comes news from closer to home as we learn that John Cassaday has gone far, far too early… Born Texan in 1971, … <\/p>\n

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