CBI Archive
365 Reasons to Love Comics #119
Sunday, April 29th, 2007 at 3:30 PM EST
Updated: Saturday, April 28th, 2007 at 10:00 PM EST
Eh-pril moseys along with a look at a brilliant Canadian artist.
4/29/07
119. Kaare Andrews
Kaare Andrews is a comics writer and artist with a wacky first name who has drawn some of the greatest, most eye-popping comic covers I’ve ever seen. The man’s a genius. Take a look at what he’s done for Marvel:
Even if you didn’t like the Bruce Jones run of Hulk, you’ve got to love those covers.
He’s a stylistic chameleon: his work varies from out-and-out animation-cel-esque cartoony to gritty and Sienkiewiczy to CGI-ish to gorgeous, Norman Rockwell paint-y to Marvel Mangaverse-y and everywhere in between. I love just about every style he chooses to use and I eagerly await each new permutation.
Also, he showed us Spider-Man’s junk and we all got a hearty laugh out of it. That’s from the recent Spider-Man: Reign, if you didn’t already know. The mini-series, which just wrapped up, was basically The Dark Knight Returns, but with Peter Parker. Not Kaare’s best effort, but I look forward to what he chooses to do in the future.
What will he do next? What will his art look like? Only time will tell… but I can’t wait. Bring it on!
5 Comments
Apodaca
April 29, 2007 at 4:02 pm
Those Hulk covers are really wonderful. It’s so refreshing to see a comic artist who understands the artistic free reign available in cover design.
Jason
April 29, 2007 at 4:29 pm
He does good work….like with the “Superhuman Like You” two-parter in Gen 13. I also got the full-issue story he did for X-Men Unlimited a while back.
Sanagi
April 30, 2007 at 2:26 am
The Hulk Pops and Wild Things covers… Too awesome.
Chuck T.
April 30, 2007 at 6:58 am
Sanagi’s right about those two covers, as they got me to buy the comic just for the cover. Ray of Light was pretty good too, but I hadn’t connected those comics with Reign. Huh.
J To The AAP
May 1, 2007 at 3:49 am
That “Where The Wild Things Are” Hulk cover is brilliant.
I had the “Reign” Premier HC in my hands a couple of weeks back at the store but decided not to get it because of part of the art (I’m a poet and I know it! …sorry). Don’t get me wrong, I thought the inked artwork was good but it didn’t mesh at all with those awful CGI-backgrounds.