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Showing posts with label Kevin O'Neill. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kevin O'Neill. Show all posts

9/16/2017

Happy 30th Anniversary!

This is not a new article, but just my way to celebrate my favorite comics character, written by my favorite writer, and illustrated by my favorite artist. Last August has marked the 30th anniversary of the first Marshal Law comics (issue #1 of the Epic Comic series), and the very same month I was able to put my hand on an A/P copy of the Graphitti Designs limited signed edition described here.



Interested to know more or to dig deeper into the series/character? Marshal Law has is own Facebook page and his own dedicated blog/site.

5/22/2016

Cinema Purgatorio #1 Kickstarter Editions

Scrips by Alan Moore, Garth Ennis, Kieron Gillen, Christos Gage, Max Brooks, and art by Kevin O'Neill, Raulo Caceres, Ignacio Calero, Gabriele Andrade, Michael DiPascale. All illustrations are © of their respective authors. For a complete list of  all books reviewed in this blog, please visit the index page.


2/18/2016

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Vol 1 Limited Remarqued Kevin O'Neill Gallery Edition

Script by Alan Moore, art by Kevin O'Neill (lettering by Bill Oakley). All illustrations are ©Moore and O'Neill. For a complete list of  all books reviewed in this blog, please visit the index page.

This is simply the artist's edition I was waiting for because Kevin O'Neill is my favorite artist.


11/15/2014

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Vol 3 Hardcover Edition

Script by Alan Moore, art by Kevin O'Neill with Ben Dimagmaliw. All material presented here is ©Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill. For a complete list of all books reviewed in this blog, please visit the index page.





This hardcover collected edition of century (7 x 10.5 inches or 18 x 27 cm, 256 pages) designed by Todd Klein, was co-published in June 2014 by Top Shelf (ISBN: 978-1-60309-329-3, cover price $29.95) and Knockabout Comics (ISBN: 978-0-86166-232-6, cover price £19.99). It comes with a fully illustrated dust jacket (see pictures above and below) and, as I have bought the 2014 San Diego comic con version, it features a signed and numbered embossed bookplate (mine is #376). Note that this bookplate was inserted in the regular book but the later was sold 50$ at the July SDCC convention.




I will try to pinpoint exhaustively all the new exclusive illustrations done especially for this edition by Kevin O'Neill, starting with dust jacket cover and flaps, and the beautifully painted second and third of covers. The third picture below is for size comparison with the regular third issue of the series (Century #3: 2009), and the oversized Delcourt French edition for Century #1:1910.






The inner book displays a black embossed canvas hardcover (there is no design on the back cover).





this illustration is exclusive to this edition

page left taken from 1910, page right exclusive to this edition

page left taken from 1910








page right exclusive to this edition

Every B&W third of cover of original issues ending Minions of The Moon are published here in colourised form.

page left exclusive to this edition

colourised version from third of 1910's cover


The thirteen pages extra section displays:
  • Promotional art for Volume III presentation
  • All three back covers for original issues
  • original cover devised for the Italian Edition
  • All three original covers for original issues
  • All three limited Gosh! bookplate illustrations
  • An exclusive patchwork illustration
page left from 1910 credits page, page right promotional art dated circa 2003

back cover for 1969

page left back cover for 2009, page right cover for Italian edition


cover for 1969

1969 and 2009 Gosh! limited bookplate

exclusive illustration
This edition doesn't included second of cover (vintage advert page), credits page as well as opening "helmeted Lady with a trident (LOEG associated symbol)" opening page from 1969 and 2009.


I have been lucky enough to put my hands on the Gosh! limited signed and numbered (out of 1000, respectively #820, 8 and 954) bookplates.







9/15/2013

Nemesis The Warlock Exclusive Limited Signed Termight Edition

Script Pat Mills, art Kevin O'Neill and Jesus Redondo. All illustrations are ©Rebellion A/S.




Published by Rebellion in August 2013 (ISBN 978-1-78108-172-3, 10.5 x 7.5 inches or 27 x 19 cm, 240 pages, 40£) this hardcover book comes with a fully illustrated dust jacket and a red ribbon bookmark. This edition was limited to 200 copies and could only been purchased on 2000 AD online web shop. It also displays 2 exclusive numbered bookplates signed by both Pat Mills and Kevin O'Neill. Note that there is a regular edition of this book called the "Deviant" edition (see the end of this article).
One of the pictures below is for size comparison with the previous Titan Edition (reproducing the original material in B&W), and one of the colored Eagle Comics issues reprinted in this new edition.




both bookplates share the same back


The inner book comes in a white faux leather hardcover (no illustration on the back).




Original material originates from 2000 AD, bus this book reprints the US Eagle Comics miniseries with modified material (re drawn and coloured by the artists).
Note that this reprint is a little bigger than the Eagle Comics hence perhaps a reproduction that is slightly degraded from the original material (this remark is in no way a mean to denigrate the very good work of Rebellion's people ). The black rendering is on the other hand better in this reprint.






one of my favorite panel by Kevin O'Neill

mek quake style!


The book also features:
  • all the Eagle Comics miniseries covers
  • a reprint of "The Tomb of Torquemada" which was originally published in 2000 AD poster prog Nemesis #1



a comparison with the original cover shows a difference in color intensity



Now these few pictures below are here for comparison purpose with the regular Deviant hardcover edition, also published by Rebellion in September 2013 (ISBN 978-1-78108-171-6, 10.5 x 7.5 inches or 27 x 19 cm, 240 pages, 30£). Of course, all the reprinted material is identical to the Termight edition.

different fully illustrated dust jacket

dust jacket front cover

dust jacket back cover

exact same size

note that there is no bookmark in the Deviant edition

different first and third of cover

inner hardcover book

front hardcover