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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.
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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. |
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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 and another from The Weird of the white wolf
collection. |
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A drawing of Oscar Wilde for the Fairy Tales
collections. |
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A print for the Fairy Tales
series, and another sketch. |
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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:
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I have no idea what character this is... |
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A card done for the Madman series. |
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A pinup done for Batman Black & White
3 and another for Legends of the Dark Knight 50, 1993,
DC. |
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And yet another one, done for the first Hellboy
collection. |
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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. |
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A beautiful (and big) poster Russell drew in 1987
of Mephisto, the Marvel devil-like character. |
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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. |
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Illustration for a recording
of George Crumb's music, 1991. |
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And another Marvel Swimsuit pinup, 1992.
Thor's never looked so butch... |
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A portrait done in memory of
a Kent State University student killed in a plane crash, 1992. With
thanks to Alex
Gildzen. |
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A cover for Hellstorm: Prince of Lies
#18, Marvel, 1994.
Here's the colored version:
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A pin-up of Dr. Strange from Marvel Swimsuit
1995.
A sketch of Dr. Strange. |
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A piece done for the Arzach portfolio. |
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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. |
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Another image drawn for Brian
Michael Bendis's Jinx (1997). |
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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. |
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Here is a plate drawn for the A Fall of Stardust
portfolio (Green Man Press, 1999). |
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A pinup for Thor #57,
Marvel, 2002. |
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A Batman sketch, 2002. |
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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:
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The cover for Buffy #32,
Dark Horse, 2003.
And here's the color
version. |
