 | Here's
a real curiosity: a Scheherazade
drawing done by P. Craig Russell in 1969. He's rather made a lot of
progress since then! |
 | A print
of the legendary Undine, 1973. |
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| Craig Russell drew six plates
in 1979 for the Curse of the Ring portfolio,
published by
Schanes & Schanes. Apart from the fact that this is a beautiful
work in itself, it is also interesting as an early foray of Russell in
the Ring of the Nibelung mythology. |
  | Two early illos published in Eclipse
Monthly
# 2, 1981, Eclipse. |
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| Two pinups from
Night Music 3, 1985, Eclipse.
Drawn in 1979 and 1978 respectively. |
 | An
illustration for the cover of
a chapbook by Alex Gildzen, "Cat Scratches" (Kent OH: Toucan Press
1982). It's is called "The Poet and His Mews".
(Thanks, Alex). |
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| Two
promotional pieces done for
the mail-order company, Bud Plant Comic Art. |
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| A
bookplate
from the Ariane & Bluebeard
deluxe collection, another one from The Weird of the white
wolf
collection and a third one from the Salome adaptation. |
 | A
drawing of Oscar Wilde for the Fairy Tales
collections. |
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| A
print for the Fairy Tales series, and another
sketch. |
 | Another
print for the Fairy
Tales (1994). |
|
| A Death
pinup for the Death
Gallery, 1994, DC ; and a Desire pinup for The
Sandman Special,
1991, DC.
And on the
right, another one for a Sandman statue:
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|
| A card done
for the Sandman series, and a promo piece done for Previews.
And here are seven small
signed drawings: |
 | I
have
no idea what character this
is... |
| 
| A card done
for the Madman series. |
|
| A pinup
done
for Batman Black & White 3 and another for
Legends of
the Dark Knight 50, 1993, DC. |
| 
| And yet
another one, done for the first Hellboy collection. |
| Two
back-covers, in Marvel
Fanfare 8 and 10, 1982 ; and two pinups for issue 11 and 45.
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|
 
| The
cover for Marvel
Fanfare #6
and the one for the Marvel Team-Up Index, done with
Sandy
Plunkett.
Below is the cover for Marvel Fanfare #24, pencils
and
inks by Russell . 
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|  
| A Barry
Windsor Smith-influenced Conan drawing from 1973, and a Wasp/Ant-Man
sketch. |
 |
A beautiful
(and big) poster Russell drew in 1987 of Mephisto, the Marvel
devil-like character. |
| 
| A pinup for Marvel
Swimsuit. It must be said
that the character in his birthday suit is Northstar, the only gay
Marvel super-hero at that time. And please notice the background
characters. Craig Russell must have had fun drawing this. |
 | Illustration for a recording of
George Crumb's music, 1991. |
| 
| And another Marvel
Swimsuit pinup, 1992. Thor's
never looked
so butch... |
 |
A
portrait done in memory of a
Kent State University student killed in a plane crash, 1992. With
thanks to Alex Gildzen. |
 | A
cover for Hellstorm: Prince of Lies #18, Marvel,
1994.
Here's the colored version: 
|
 | A
print of Dr. Strange (1985). |
  | A pin-up of Dr. Strange from Marvel
Swimsuit 1995.
A sketch of Dr. Strange. |
| 
| A piece done
for the Arzach portfolio. |
| 
| A
scary drawing for The Lost
1, Caliber, 1996
(re-issued later
by Chaos), an unachieved series drawn by Russell's pals Galen Showman
and Jay Geldhof. |
 |
Another
image drawn for Brian
Michael Bendis's Jinx (1997). |
| 
| A pretty
drawing done for Jill Thompson's Scary
Godmother : Bloody Valentine Special, 1998, Sirius.
You can
find Jill Thompson playing various roles in Russell's works. |
| Here is a
plate drawn for the A Fall of Stardust
portfolio (Green Man Press, 1999). |
 |
A
pinup for Thor #57,
Marvel, 2002. |
 |
A
Batman sketch, 2002. |
  | A
poster for the American Library Association, 2003.
And a
large,
b&w version of that poster. Here are seven
sketches done in
preparation for the poster:
|
 | The
cover
for Buffy #32, Dark Horse, 2003.
And
here's the color
version. |
 | The
cover for Action Comics
#894,
DC, October 2010. |
 | A
drawing for a collection of The
Sandman: Dream Hunters
(2010). |
  | A
recent giclée print of The Sandman/Morpheus, and another recent Sandman
drawing. |
  | Two
drawings for the Absolute versions of Neil Gaiman's The Sandman series,
2011. |
 | A
sketch of Brunhilde. |
 | A
poster for a fundraiser for the Museum of Comic & Cartoon Art,
2012. |
 | The
cover for Before
Watchmen: Dr.
Manhattan #2 (alternate cover), DC,
2012. |
