my favourite batman romance is still him and “gotham”. dont give a shit about it being a cop out, i think its awesome that his realest “happiness” is derived from fulfilling his inner kid and playing dress up as a caped crusader
I really love the Bill Gold posters but the idea of Sienkiewicz designing posters for one of the best modern westerns and them not getting used is wild to me
DARWYN COOKE illustrated three major stories for Justin Gray and me during our run on Jonah Hex, and each time he was the one who came to us asking to draw the book. We could not have been happier.
Every issue he turned in felt like a small masterpiece...pure Darwyn, distilled onto the page.
When he finished issue #50, he was genuinely upset that the Eisners didn’t even mention the book in his nomination, even though he went on to win Best Artist that year. That was Darwyn: fiercely proud of the work, fiercely loyal to his friends, and always pushing for the things he believed deserved recognition.
Darwyn was a very close friend to both Amanda and me, and he championed our work in the most meaningful way possible, by actually collaborating with us whenever he could. We spent countless hours talking about the creator‑owned projects he wanted to dive into once he wrapped the next Parker novel. Losing him to lung cancer meant losing not only the books we were dreaming up together, but the ones he was dreaming up on his own.
I’ll admit something I never told him: I wasn’t thrilled when he took on the Parker adaptations. Not because they weren’t brilliant—they were—but because each one delayed the incredible original ideas he was pitching me constantly. He loved those parker novels, and his plan was always to finish them and then devote himself entirely to his own creations- but we never got to enjoy this and I think of this often. I think it is one of the major motivators for me to always do my own thing - successful or not.
Anyway, I suggest you track these books down if you never read them- each one a visual masterpiece that the world will never forget by the one and the only Darwyn Cooke.