Russ Heath may not be as famous as he deserves to be, because he drew very few superhero comics. The closest he came were a few Batman stories (which he himself described as "failures" in a 2007 interview) and a handful of Punisher stories. He spent most of his seven decades as a professional comics artist (and just plain old illustrator for that matter) drawing everything BUT superheroes--war, horror, satire, adventure, western, science fiction, fantasy, romance... he did it all.
Here's a gallery of illustrations in memory of an artistic giant. (For the record, I LOVED those issues of "Legends of the Dark Knight" that Heath himself thought were failures.)
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He was one of the very few artists in the comics whose work I could never get tired of looking at over and over. awesome talent.
ReplyDeleteYeah. His art was always full of nice details... and he was one of those guys who seemed to be able to draw anything well. Even superheroes (even if he himself didn't seem to think so).
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