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Bill Sienkiewicz

  
 
Model 7
19:54 / 24.02.02
As people who read my last post will gather, I havnt been collecting comics for a good 10 years.

One of the best series I picked up was the Bill Sienkiewicz/Frank Miller Elektra Assasin
8 part mini. Some of it was a little TOO abstract (especially as I was only 11 at the time!) but that artwork...holy shit that man is SOOOOOOOO talented. I checked out his site, and its really made me want to track done something decent that hes worked on in the past decade.

Can someone make a recommendation? Preferably something thats come out in a nice convenient graphic nov and wont be too hard to get hold of. Has he done any non-Super Hero work in that badass impressionist style of his?

And if anyone knows where to get hold of Bill S posters I would be EXTREMELY grateful.

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ThomasMunkholt
06:05 / 25.02.02
He did the Daredevil - Love and War fully painted graphic novel with Frank Miller. It's not as experimetning as Elektra, though.

Stray Toasters is from the same period and is a jumble of all sorts of media -he wrote it himself.

SInce then it's been somewhat patchy. There was a Jimmy Hendrix graphic novel, the two issues of Big Numbers, a christmas story ... and he has done a lot of line art and inking.

It should all be reasonably available - at least through eBay.

Early Dave Mckean stuff has a lot of Sienkiewewtcxzx influence - and you can pick up any episode of David Mack's colour Kabuki for more of the same.

Good luck.
 
 
nikon driver
06:58 / 25.02.02
he also illustrated the centre spread of Public Enemy's album 'greatest misses'.

oh, and i own the 'daredevil' and 'elektra assasin' graphic novels if you wanna swap something with me - who needs e-bay?
 
 
videodrome
06:58 / 25.02.02
quote:Originally posted by Mocca:
... the two issues of Big Numbers, a christmas story...

Wasn't the second issue of Big Numbers drawn by Al Columbia, the quickly burnt-out Sienkiewicz-come-lately? After his issue of Big Numbers Columbia put out a couple of issues of The Biologic SHow before he disappeared...

Don't forget all those issues of Moon Knight...oh. Wait. Yeah. Forget those.
 
 
lentil
10:16 / 25.02.02
quote:Originally posted by nikon driver:
he also illustrated the centre spread of Public Enemy's album 'greatest misses'.


And the cover to RZA's "Bodby Digital in Stereo". That was about the only thing right with that album.
 
 
Model 7
11:50 / 25.02.02
Ive seen some of his Daredevil work.

Noticed that Stray Toasters at his site won loads of awards. Never came across it before, so Ill definately be on the lookout for that.

I like the sound of Bill S drawing a Hendrix book!

Those other artists and titles sound interesting. Ill look them up. Cheers all!
quote:he also illustrated the centre spread of Public Enemy's album 'greatest misses'.
Did he really? "Yo!Bum rush the show" is still one of my most treasured pices of vinly. ("What goes on?, WELLLLLLLLLLLL...BOOM!")

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kid coagulant
12:42 / 25.02.02
i remember liking his work on 'the shadow' from a long time ago; here's a link to some of his cover art: http://www.cs.unr.edu/~forman/shc.html

amazon linkage here: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-form/102-3320825-1393737
 
 
yawn - thing's buddy
17:17 / 25.02.02
both issues of big numbers by bill.

no question.

end.
 
 
the Fool
19:00 / 25.02.02
I can't believe no one has mentioned it yet but his run on New Mutants is an absolute classic. From about #19 to #39 I think. Admittedly it doesn't come in tradeback form but these issues really are worth hunting down.

I think he also did some issues of Power Man & Iron Fist but I'm not sure...
 
 
sleazenation
19:20 / 25.02.02
actually, i think there is a trade of the deamon bear saga-mr S first few issues on muties
 
 
Model 7
19:52 / 25.02.02
nikon driver

Tempting, but I havnt got the worlds largest comic collection (maybe my streets largest!) but what Ive brought I chose wisely, so theres nothing I have I would really be willing to part with. Unless you happen to be the one Wild Dog fan on the planet, the first mini series of which somehow ended up in there!lol

invix-

Yeah, I collected the Shadows and Light series as well. F**king awsome covers and artwork.
Is that amazon link right? I keep getting a browser error.

yawn-

Anyone that blunt must know what their talking about! Ill keep my eyes open..

the Fool-

Yeah Im sure I heard about something Mutant related that he worked on. Thatll be it, then!
 
 
the Fool
19:52 / 25.02.02
quote:Originally posted by sleazenation:
actually, i think there is a trade of the deamon bear saga-mr S first few issues on muties

YAY! me must hunt down immediately!!!
 
 
sleazenation
20:11 / 25.02.02
Mr S also did the artwork for marvel comics 3 issue adaptation of David Lynch's film version of DUNE, which is well worth checking out and often available for mere pennies per issue
 
 
videodrome
09:13 / 26.02.02
Bill S is to Marvel in the 80's what, oh, say, Neal Adams or Bernie Wrightson was to DC in the 70's - making shite books readable. Even as a young kid, I read New Mutants only for his art. Same with Moon Knight.
 
 
nikon driver
09:59 / 26.02.02
hey model 7.

i wasn't sayin i wanted more comics. i don't collect comics myself - i just have them from years back. a decent vid/DVD or something would be fine. but, you know, i'm feeling a bit arthur daley here and it's not such a big deal. i just thought that if you were desperate, that they're just lying about my house. anyway, if you do want them, just think about something that you wouldn't mind getting rid of.
 
 
Baz Auckland
19:58 / 26.02.02
Try and get Stray Toasters if you can. I only read it once or twice about 7 years ago, but it was pretty neat-o.

I remember meeting him at the local comic shop when I was 8 or so. He autographed my copy of "Marvel Universe" and my brother's "New Mutants"...
 
 
Sandfarmer
01:00 / 28.02.02
He recently did some pretty nice work on the Ultimate Marvel Team-Up. Daredevil and Punisher stuff. Pretty good. At a con last year, Bendis said when they asked him who he wanted to work with on Ultimate Marvel Team-Up, Sienkiewicz was the first guy he thought of.
 
 
ghadis
11:00 / 28.02.02
[/QUOTE]Posted by videodrome... Wasn't the second issue of Big Numbers drawn by Al Columbia, the quickly burnt-out Sienkiewicz-come-lately? After his issue of Big Numbers Columbia put out a couple of issues of The Biologic SHow before he disappeared... [/QUOTE]

The first 2 issues of Big Numbers were drawn by Sienkiewicz with Columbia as his Art Assistant. Columbia was meant to take over full art duties with issue 4 before he went nuts and cut up all the work he'd done. As well as the 2 issues of Biologic Show he's done a few stories for Zero Zero and Blab all of which are nothing like his original Sienkiewicz-esqe style such as his Doghead. Some of the best comics ever made i reckon...If Fantagraphics ever get round to collecting his stuff it will be the best book EVER!!

Sorry got a bit carried away there...Huge Columbia fan...oh and Stray Toasters is pretty good too...

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