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Jun 26, 2011 · Roy Thomas, the writer/editor/historian perhaps had the best perspective on Colan’s place in the comic art pantheon. “He had the dynamics of Kirby, but the realism of some of the comic strip artists – the things that people liked later in Neal Adams and other artists,” Thomas said.
Jun 24, 2011 · The Gene Colan Interview. TCJ | June 24, 2011 RODMAN: The bottom line is that The Art Students' League was a pivotal place for American art. Your first professional comics assignment was with Fiction House. You were there with Murphy Anderson, among other people. COLAN: We were both sort of fledglings at the time. We worked there together.
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This panel from Daredevil #26 (written by Stan Lee) sees Daredevil jumping over a statue. Doesn’t it look like the most natural thing in the world?
I love this panel, from Daredevil #27. I like the perspective from below, how the scene is broken up into two panels, the movement across the page and, last but not least, how Daredevil spreads his legs to reduce his speed at the end of the arc.
Does this scene (also from Daredevil #27) look familiar? I think Paolo Rivera must have been channeling some Gene Colan in this piece of preview art. 😉 Anyway, it’s a wonderfully classic high altitude wardrobe change and it definitely has me smiling.
This scene is from Daredevil #31 which saw Matt temporarily lose his radar sense in the middle of the Mike Murdock era. As a result, here is a very blind Daredevil attempting some daring acrobatics.
In Daredevil #81, written by Gerry Conway, Daredevil is introduced to the mysterious Black Widow, but he doesn’t know it yet. She rescues him from the bottom of the ocean while he’s unconscious. This scene is interesting enough in that it marks the beginning of the relationship between these characters, but I’ve included it here for the interesting...
The vast majority of Colan’s Daredevil work took place during the 60’s and 70’s, but he had more recent contributions on his resume as well. Below is a scene from Daredevil #366, written by Joe Kelly. Again, it was the radar effect of this page that caught my attention.
Apr 17, 2014 · He is affectionately remembered by fans around the world as ‘Gentleman’ Gene Colan, and over the course of his legendary career he worked in virtually every genre ever touched by the comic book medium, including romance, adventure, mystery, science-fiction, humour, war, westerns and crime, in addition to his acclaimed work within the ...
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Jun 24, 2011 · Come up with different things. There's a very famous scene of a figure descending a staircase, a nude woman. RODMAN: The Nude Descending a Staircase, by Marcel Duchamp. COLAN: And the figure is repeated again and again. I've seen photographs like that, you know, where each image is superimposed on the one before it.
A thoroughly researched six-page essay contributed by amateur historian Dr. Michael J. Vassallo shines a light on Colan’s work during the murky end of Timely Comics. By 1962, Colan was 35 years old with a failed first marriage and a stalled art career. Things turned around when he met his true love and second wife Adrienne Gail Brickman.
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Dec 3, 2013 · Where Jack Kirby was explosive chaos, and John Romita beautiful women and great storytelling, nobody ever drew like Gene Colan. Before or since. Gene's artwork moved with a graceful flowing motion. His characters looked like members of your family, or your friend's family. His mastery of light and shadow was exquisite in its flawless perspective.
