John Severin is one of those artists who started good and just kept getting better for a long time. He worked in and around comics for more than six decades before his death not that long ago. Personally, I think these CRACKED pages are some of his best work ever! Only lightly humorous but accurate to the extreme!
Greetings, Groove-ophiles! Today let's feast our eyes on the magnificence of Marie and John Severin's incredible art for the Kull II Portfolio* as presented in Marvel Preview #19 (Summer 1979). The first five plates are Big Brother John's solo work, while the last three are laid out/penciled by Sister Marie and inked by Bro John. Are you ready for this? (*Kull I, wherefore art thou?)
Famed comic-book artist Severin dies at 90
Cover art by John Severin
Cracked magazine artistic mainstay, John Severin, renders the mighty Battlestar Galactica - and a squadron's worth of deftly-executed Viper fighters - on this classic parody cover. As I have said before, I always preferred Cracked to Mad when I was a Star Kid, and Severin's incredibly detailed art was the main reason. Although he no doubt had photo reference, I can't think of a more accurate and detailed drawing of the Colonial warship in comics - certainly not in Marvel's series. If I recall correctly, Cracked's janitor mascot was Sylvester P. Smythe, right?
Two-Fisted Tales #38 Original Art Illustrated by John Severin 1954 * Courtesy of Heritage Auctions
Drew Friedman says: This is the latest in my ongoing series of "portraits of the legends of comic books", the late artist John Severin (1921-2012), one of the original MAD/EC…
Latigo Kid Western art: John Severin AC Comics / Paragon Publications (Longwood / USA; 1988) ex libris MTP
War Is Hell #3 Cover Original Art Illustrated by John Severin 1973 * Courtesy of Heritage Auctions
Hip Hip Hurrah! by Peder Severin Krøyer 1886 (Gothenburg Museum of Art, Göteborg, Sweden)
If you’re anything like me, you’ll consider the first 28 issues of the comic book version of MAD the best comic book ever published. John Severin was one of the main contributors to th…
Greetings, Groove-ophiles! Today let's feast our eyes on the magnificence of Marie and John Severin's incredible art for the Kull II Portfolio* as presented in Marvel Preview #19 (Summer 1979). The first five plates are Big Brother John's solo work, while the last three are laid out/penciled by Sister Marie and inked by Bro John. Are you ready for this? (*Kull I, wherefore art thou?)
John Powers Severin is legendary as one of the most prolific and long-lived of all comics artists, producing quality work well into his 90s.
