In honor of the twentieth anniversary of Neil Gaiman’s Sandman, DC Comics released a special-edition poster which features artwork of characters from the Sandman universe as drawn by Jill Thompson, Tony Harris, Steve Leialoha, Mike Allred, Bryan Talbot, and more than 25 other great comics artists.
Up for auction is the ORIGINAL ART for P. Craig [...]
PCR: I read Neil’s first rough draft some ten years ago and knew immediately I wanted to adapt it. DC offered it to me around that time or shortly thereafter but I was in the middle of a five-year-long project (the 400 hundred-page “The Ring of the Nibelung”) and couldn’t commit until it was complete. [...]
You don’t want to miss his art here. The guy really is one of the biggest talents we’ve got in the comic book industry. I imagine this adaptation of the folk tale-style original story has more in common with his opera adaptations. It’s pretty amazing how the guy can pay fitting tribute to Arabian Nights [...]
Starting as a simple Japanese fairy tale about a monk, a bold badger, and a wily fox, the tale time-releases mood and energy with fantastic lines, color, and page design by P. Craig Russell.
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If you’re unfamiliar with Russell’s soft, gentle lines then you are missing out on one of the best artists working in comics. From the very first page, of autumn leaves falling through the sky towards the ocean, Russell’s art is so beautiful that it’s hard to believe you’re not looking at a piece of classical [...]
This Wednesday, DC is marking the 20th anniversary of Sandman with the first of four issues of the comic adaptation of The Dream Hunters by P. Craig Russell, an artist whose career spans over 30 years across various publishers and genres in the comic industry. The first issue of The Sandman: The Dream Hunters comic [...]
P. Craig Russell is known throughout the comic-book world as an artist’s artist. His lush, detailed, clean-line artwork—ranging from adaptations of Wagner’s opera and Oscar Wilde’s fairy tales to fantasy comics like Conan and Elric—has inspired everyone from creators like Mike Mignola to today’s hottest indie cartoonists. He’s also done a substantial amount of work [...]
We’re happy to unveil to unveil Craig’s black-and-white artwork for the variant cover of SANDMAN: THE DREAM HUNTERS #1! The first issue is due from DC/Vertigo in November.
Unlettered color preview pages from P. Craig Russell’s comics adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s SANDMAN: THE DREAM HUNTERS—coming this fall from DC Comics/Vertigo! You can also see behind-the-scenes footage of Craig working on the book on the NIGHT MUSIC DVD.
Art from Craig’s comics adaptation of DREAM HUNTERS graces the cover of Diamond’s PREVIEWS for September, 2008!
