I saw this on comicartfans.com and simply had to share it here, it's brilliant! Back in the 1980's, Titan Books reprinted classic Judge Dredd strips in their lush 'Chronicles of Judge Dredd' series of graphic novels. The covers for the books were produced by some very high profile artists including an impressive, very distinctive run by American artist Bill Sienkiewicz.
His covers were striking, often including abstract elements and plenty of collage or photography. This is perfectly demonstrated by the piece above. Proud new owner of the artwork, a guy known as J H, describes the piece. He says:
"This piece of artwork is HUGE! It's painted on a board that measures almost 4 feet by 4 feet in size. It has a host of mixed media affixed to the art (wires, carpet swatches, stickers, gold foil, the list goes on). At the time the cover to this magazine was shot, the battery pack on the back of the art board (which held two C size batteries) powered the eyes of the angel and they lit up for the cover photo). A wild masterpiece from the best in the business in the prime of his career!"
Got to agree, what a work of art!

Absolutely crackers! Sienkiewicz went on to create thirteen superb covers for the house of Tharg, including this moody image below for the City of the Damned epic. I believe this is now owned by Ashley Wood, the lucky sod!

* Those additional images from Cravenoir:







How strange!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteI remember reading somewhere about the troubles they had making a good job of photography for the covers on his pieces because of the size and the montage work. Excellent stuff, I still love the City of the Damned image you've shown, one of my favourites. Do you remember a Dredd calendar many years ago it had a lot of the covers for the Titan books as the month image.
ReplyDeleteWho wouldn't want to see him do an Indigo Prime cover?? This one where the eye are looking out from behind the picture... spooky! Are they real eyes? Someone must have this in their collection somewhere and the suspicion must be the eyes really do follow you around the room.
ReplyDeletebrilliant work by a master craftsman thanks for showing
ReplyDeleteThese covers come from a Golden Age when Titan were alternating between Sienkiewicz and Dave McKean for their reprint volumes. McKean would send one in with detailed lighting instructions, so Sienkiewicz would submit one that needed plugging into the mains!
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