text page from Crime SuspenStories (1950 series) #17 (EC, June 1953)
Williamson brought dynamism and energy to his realism through amazing detail and expert anatomy. This sequence follows a self-photograph through to a finished panel for a Flash Gordon comic.
from Al Williamson's Flash Gordon: A Lifelong Vision of the Heroic (Flesk, 2009)
DC artist Gray Morrow drew Al Williamson into the first El Diablo comic. He's at the top, with Angelo Torres in the middle and Dick Giordano at the bottom!
from "The Devil Has Two Faces!" in All Star Western (1970 series) #2 (DC/National, October 1970), script by Robert Kanigher, pencils and inks by Gray Morrow, letters by Ray Holloway (?)
And, of course, EC was always fond of caricaturing its creators:
(Click picture to adult-education-size)
from "The Night Before Christmas" in Panic (1954 series) #1 (EC, February 1954), pencils and inks by Bill Elder, colors by Marie Severin, letters by Jim Wroten
from Crime SuspenStories (1950 series) #15 (EC, February 1953), text by Al Feldstein, colors by Marie Severin
More portraits, self and photograph, of Al!
from The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #3: 50 Girls 50 and Other Stories (Fantagraphics, March 2013);
Marvel Graphic Novel #34: Cloak and Dagger: Predator and Prey (Marvel, June 1988)
Happy birthday to you, Al Williamson!
from Strange Adventures (2020 series) #7 (DC, February 2021)
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1 comment:
For the record, the last truly great solo work by Williamson was the story in Fabulous Flo Steinberg's Bi Apple Comix.
Of course, he did some lovely work after but the Big Apple story beats the later Star Wars and other work but the former is special in a way that nothing after was.
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