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Wednesday, July 06, 2011

Wednesday Covers: The GRACKLE

Back in the mid-90s, right around the time that Frank Miller's Sin City and David Lapham's Stray Bullets were actually selling better than many super-hero titles, the increasingly desperate management of Acclaim Comics decided to launch an entire line of crime comics. One of them was a limited series called The Grackle, written by Mike Baron and illustrated by the great Paul Gulacy. Here are two of the four cover illustrations he did for that miniseries.

6 comments:

Terrill Lee Lankford said...

Very Steranko.

Christopher Mills said...

Gulacy has often been compared to Steranko, but personally, I think he's more versatile than Steranko. He certainly has a much larger body of actual illustrative work to his credit.

Charles Gramlich said...

violence, betrayal, sex. I'm in!

Christopher Mills said...

Good luck finding it at this late date! :)

Actually, although I loved Gulacy's artwork, I wasn't impressed with Mike Baron's story.

GrayPumpkin said...

As a big fan of Gulacy I picked the first issue one back when it came out, but sorta lost track of it after that. Like you said the story wasn't all that memorable.

El Vox said...

I can see the Steranko comparison with the pop art background & scantily clad women. Never read the comic.