Tuesday, March 14, 2006
Lou Fine's Galley of Heroes
One of the greatest comic book artists of the Golden Age--and a favorite of my favorite, Jack Kirby--was Lou Fine. He combined clean draftsmanship with exciting action and an otherworldly imagination to create some of the greatest covers in comic history. His little-remembered supermen included the Ray, the Black Condor, the Green Mask, and the Flame. For legions of his bound damsels, about to be sawed in half or electrocuted or fed to giant insects or transformed into freaks, Fine's heroes had a knack for bursting through walls or leaping over parapets at just the right moment.
It's Kirby's dynamism meets Burne Hogarth's anatomy plus Alex Raymond's beautiful lines.
One of the greatest comic book artists of the Golden Age--and a favorite of my favorite, Jack Kirby--was Lou Fine. He combined clean draftsmanship with exciting action and an otherworldly imagination to create some of the greatest covers in comic history. His little-remembered supermen included the Ray, the Black Condor, the Green Mask, and the Flame. For legions of his bound damsels, about to be sawed in half or electrocuted or fed to giant insects or transformed into freaks, Fine's heroes had a knack for bursting through walls or leaping over parapets at just the right moment.
It's Kirby's dynamism meets Burne Hogarth's anatomy plus Alex Raymond's beautiful lines.# posted by toner_low @ 9:14 AM 
