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2 days ago · Barry Windsor-Smith turns 75! The artist, born May 25, 1949, is one of comics’ greats and his work has been admired since he hit the scene in the late 1960s. For this year’s 13 COVERS birthday salute, we’ve decided to upend expectations and not go with his storied tenure on Conan the Barbarian but instead focus on Marvel’s merry, mighty ...
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In the 1990s, Windsor-Smith was at the peak of his powers. He produced work for a start-up company named Valiant Comics. Within only two years Valiant rose to become the third most powerful publisher. Windsor-Smith was the chief designer of the "historic" UNITY crossover for Valiant Comics. Before Valiant was sold to video game giant Acclaim Entert...
He did some work for Malibu's Ultraverse line as well as for Dark Horse Comics. At Dark Horse Windsor-Smith created an oversized series, Barry Windsor-Smith: Storyteller,that contained three ongoing features: "The Paradoxman," "Young GODS," and "The Freebooters," that last a lightheard action series about a Conan-like character grown older and heav...
Barry Windsor-Smith has been recognized for his work with several awards and nominations. He was nominated for the Shazam Award for Superior Achievement by an Individual in 1974. He also received nominations for the Comics' Buyer's Guide Favorite Colorist Award in 1997 and 1998.
John Buscema on being Marvel's first-choice Conan artist: "I was approached by Roy Thomaswith the project to do Conan. He mailed a couple of the paperbacks to me and I read 'em and I loved 'em. I t...
Comic World (U.K.) #37, March 1995, reprinted in Comic Book Artist#21. Aug. 2002, p.31b. Interview conducted Oct. 2, 1994.Address to Pro Con 93, (c) 1993 Dave Sim. Available online at: http://www.amptoons.com/howto/sim/procon.htmlOPUS Volume 1, "Time Rise", (c) 1999 Barry Windsor-Smith. A.R.R. Published by Fantagraphics Books.Epilogue text, WEAPON X Hardcover Edition, Oct., 1992, (c) Marvel Entertainment Group, Inc.- 2 min
Mar 11, 2013 · From The Comics Journal #190 (September 1996). This is my second interview with Barry Windsor-Smith. My first was conducted in (approximately) 1970, which would’ve made me a starry-eyed 16-year-old and (the pre-Windsor) Barry Smith a comparatively awesome 23-year-old grown-up drawing for Marvel Comics (and with an exotic accent yet!).
Barry Windsor-Smith • Conan the Barbarian - Page 1. In 1970 BWS was offered the job as artist on a new title for Marvel, Conan the Barbarian. Conan was a “sword and sorcery” adventure character created in the 1930s by writer Robert E. Howard for the pulp magazine Weird Tales. Howard’s stories had enjoyed a revival in the 1960s when they ...
Marvel Team-Up (1972) #150. Published. February 10, 1985. Writer. Louise Simonson. Penciller. Greg Larocque Barry Windsor-Smith. Spider-Man joins the X-Men to take down Juggernaut! The power of the Cyttorak grows in the mutants' fiercest foe, as all sides scramble to subdue Cain Marko.
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May 25, 2020 · Winter 2021 – 84 FULL-COLOR pages. Comic Book Creator #25 features “The Return of the Storyteller,” as we conduct an in-depth discussion with the legendary comic book artist and illustrator Barry Windsor-Smith about his mammoth new graphic novel, Monsters, a tour de force decades in the making!
Jun 10, 2023 · Barry Windsor-Smith suffered an Ischemic Stroke on May 20, spent 8 days in an ICU and weeks in rehabilitation. He is now recovering at home. Published Sat, 10 Jun 2023 17:43:13 -0500
