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The obscure Marvel UK character Night Raven has an unbelievably slick costume design, pure super-spy pulp.
He looks far more like a Fumetti Neri anti-villain than the product of the early days of David Lloyd, Alan Moore, and John Bolton.
Thinking about Billy Graham again, as I often do when I think about the people who hooked me on comics.
His style was pure 70s Marvel, but there is a kind of heightened tension that underpinned everything.
I've recently been researching the work of Walter Sickert for a current project, I am deeply impressed by the oppressive mood that is seen in his works from the 1880s to his death in 1942.
Always loved it when Ultraman Seijin were more haunting and abstract, like Alien Poll and the hellish cloud of strange plasma (?) they dwell in.
After studying his art for most of my life, I think I prefer HR Gigers ruddy fleshscapes and acidic heaps over his slick biomechanical works. Those compositions are far more provocative.