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Straight for the art | Sean Murphy’s Wolverine Alphabet (and more)
Sean Murphy's Wolverine ABCs
As we noted the other day, Vertigo has expanded the upcoming Grant Morrison/Sean Murphy series Joe the Barbarian from six issues to eight. Looking at Murphy’s deviantart account, it’s not hard to see why. Among the visual delights therein are letters A through H of a Wolverine Alphabet, featuring the Ol’ Canucklehead and friends kickin’ it Sesame Street style. (Unsurprisingly, the set has Marvel editors beating a path to the DC-exclusive artist’s door.)
The gallery also includes page after luscious page of Murphy’s work on Hellblazer, a few Joe the Barbarian preview pages, and random other goodies, from a recreation of the poster for Easy Rider starring Wolverine and Banshee in place of Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda to the below image of all of Murphy’s childhood heroes one one team. No wonder Vertigo veterans Paul Pope, Cameron Stewart, and Jock have all been tweeting Murphy’s praises.
We're guessing Einstein's the team leader
- October 8, 2009 @ 03:12 PM by Sean T. Collins
10 Comments
Josh Fitzpatrick
October 8, 2009 at 3:29 pm
Forget Marvel and DC – where is the Henry Rollins comic?
Julian
October 8, 2009 at 3:36 pm
Is that Einstein wielding a huge motherfucking sword? I wanna read that comic.
DrewT
October 8, 2009 at 3:48 pm
I think Einstein might be wielding Cloud’s sword from FF7.
I love this pic!
Jacob
October 8, 2009 at 5:45 pm
DC doesn’t deserve him. They’ve barely used him.
chad
October 8, 2009 at 9:39 pm
seeing that art he should go for image or top cow for dc and marvel would just have him use his talents on their latest crossover of the month. or he will wind up burned out at dc due to editor interferance all the time.
Josh F
October 9, 2009 at 5:20 am
@ Jacob, I believe they “haven’t” used him, due to his work on the upcoming Joe the Barbarian.
Declan Shalvey
October 9, 2009 at 6:35 am
In fairness, he’s also done a Hellblazer arc for DC too, they just haven’t published it yet.
Punchy
October 9, 2009 at 8:28 am
They did publish his Hellblazer story with Jason Aaron, or are you talking about a different story?
Ian A.
October 9, 2009 at 9:17 am
Punchy, Murphy wrapped a second Hellblazer arc a while back, before starting on Joe the Barbarian. Pages from that second arc are in his Deviant Art gallery, and they’re definitely worth a look.
So, Vertigo has been giving him steady work for a while. They’re just sitting on it.
Strider
October 9, 2009 at 12:24 pm
Yep, just made the “Childhood Heroes” pic my desktop wallpaper. That is fantastic.