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P. Craig Russell is a comic-book artist renowned both
for his beautiful line art and his impeccable storytelling. Influenced
by the aesthetics of the Art Nouveau and the Pre-Raphaelites, but
also by the great illustrators of the XIXth century, Russell's art
is always a feast for the eyes.
He's numbered all his personal work chronologically, originally
to help readers follow his work among the numerous publishers he's
working with. So, you'll find an opus list in the Works section,
as well as lists of his collections and various pin-ups.
His personal work can be divided in four main areas, all of them
adaptations of already existing written works :
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- Michael Moorcock's Elric. The adventures of the well-known albino
warrior have been adapted in Russell's opus 10, 12, 15, 22 and
41.
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- Adaptations of operas. Russell has adapted more than ten operas
or songs into comics form. He's done some of his best work with
these tales, ranging from 3 to 424 pages.
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- Rudyard Kipling's Mowgli stories. Far from the Disney version,
Russell has adapted three Jungle Tales (and inked a few
others over Gil Kane's pencils). They can surely be considered
as some of the most beautiful adaptations of classic literature
in comics form.
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- Oscar Wilde's fairy tales. Wilde's stories for children are
given new life in these adaptations. Russell has already drawn
5 tales, and he'll adapt the others eventually.
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Russell has drawn the adaptation of Richard Wagner's The Ring
of the Nibelung. It might well be Russell's Magnum Opus. A
collection in two volumes has been published.
And that's not all : there's an adaptation of a Clive
Barker story, another of Cyrano de Bergerac's journey to the moon
and lots of other curiosities.
Apart from that, he's also worked for the mainstream (meaning,
super-heroes). You'll find the War of the World series, Batman
stories...
So, come and visit the strange and beautiful world of
one of the most accomplished, and also most idiosyncratic comics
artists.
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