April 19, 2012

The Compost Pile

Image Comics Exhibit at the Cartoon Art Museum

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I was a bit burnt out from work this week, and decided to take today and Friday off of work. I was walking around town, and found myself at the Cartoon Art Museum. I’ve actually nver been in, and admission was only five bucks.

Turns out they had an Image Comics exhibit up!

Image Characters by the Image Founders

Image Characters by the Image Founders

They had art from all 20 years of Images history, from everything from the earliest days to the most recent book. I took some pics, figured I’d share with you here. The pics are from my phone, so they aren’t the best, but I hope you enjoy.

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This set of covers from Image United looked amazing! It was six full size comic boards side by side to make this composite image. I pieced this together from three individual pics:

Combined Cover Art for Image United 1

Combined Cover Art for Image United 1

There were a couple of cool Jam pieces, like this one, with art by Todd McFarlane, Jim Valentino, Marc Silvestri, and Erik Larsen.

Image Comics Jam

Image Comics Jam with Todd McFarlane, Jim Valentino, Erik Larsen, and Marc Silvestri

The art to Savage Dragon number 1!

Savage Dragon #1 Cover by Erik Larsen

Savage Dragon #1 Cover by Erik Larsen

The exhibit covered the entire history of Image, so there was a bit of recent stuff in addition to the older stuff. Here’s the art for one of the hardcover collections of Invincible by Ryan Ottley.

Invincible Hardcover Art by Ryan Ottley

Invincible Hardcover Art by Ryan Ottley

The cool thing about this Chew page by Rob Guillory is that the pencils are done in red pencil, instead of the standard blue pencil.

Chew Interior Art

Chew Interior Art

And, of course, Walking Dead was there, with the cover to Walking Dead #33, with the Governor and Michonne.

Walking Dead 33 Cover Art

Walking Dead 33 Cover Art

They also had this interior art double page spread from Walking Dead #93. This was cool because the city scape was printed on the page with light blue ink, and Charlie Adlard inked the cityscape over the printed blue picture.

Walking Dead 93 Interior Art

Walking Dead 93 Interior Art

This museum was pretty sweet, it was well worth the five bucks to go check out this awesome original art. If you ever have half an afternoon to kill in San Francisco, check it out.

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