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Ross Andru earned a well-deserved but sometimes overlooked star in the pantheon of comic book and strip artists for his memorable penciling on occasionally less than outstanding characters.

Born in 1925, Andru attended the Music and Arts High School in New York City, and the Cartoonists and Illustrators School, before embarking on his career in comics in the 1950s.

His most revered work at DC Comics was his many issues as penciller for Mike Esposito's inks on Wonder Woman. These stories were steeped in mythology and centered on the super-heroine's years on Paradise Island as a child and teenager. At the time, Wonder Woman comics targeted young girls as their potential audience, and were full of a whimsy and simple joy rare in comic books and reminiscent of children's novels.

The artist's Spider-Man work at Marvel Comics was grounded in the traditions of super hero comic books: adventure and the dramatic battle of good and evil. Andru drew cityscapes and super-villains with the same ease as tropical islands and mermen, and he left his mark as one of the best to draw the world famous cast of the wall-crawling teenager.

Whatever his subject, Ross Andru's pencils were clean, bold and technically beyond criticism. Based on a realistic depiction of the world, his style was instantly recognizable. No superfluous line was added to a panel, and his internal logic and visual storytelling were flawless, dramatic and entertaining. Among his comic book credits are: Wonder Woman, G. I. Joe, Suicide Squad, Metal Men, Sea Devils, Rip Hunter, Superman-Batman, Trigger Twins, Losers (DC Comics, '58--?); X-Men, Spiderman, Defenders, Kull, Gullivar Jones, Shanna, Doc Savage (Marvel, '67--?); and pencils for the publishers Ziff-Davis ('51), Pines (c'52-'54), Hillman ('52) and Skywalk ('71-72).

Andru died in 1993.

The work of Ross Andru is highly recommended.

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Lucca Comics 2011 by Francesco A*

Lucca Comics, Manga, Fumetti, Jap, Cartoni, Animzioni, maschere, hentai

Lucca Comics and Games 2011 batte il record dell'edizione 2009: nelle 5 giornate del festival sono più di 155 mila i visitatori arrivati da tutta Italia, moltissimi travestiti da supereroi e personaggi dei cartoni animati, soprattutto anime e manga. Ecco alcune foto scattate domenica 30 ottobre.

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Comics 2016 Tommaso Attanasio

Lucca Comics 2012 by Outsider Cosplay - Goombarta

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Before Dreamwave started it's ongoing G1 Transformers comic book series, they released two separate 6-part stories. Dreamwave made two comic covers for each issue

For most of the second series, each issue cover put together made the story.

A little backstory. You see, all the 1984 & a few 1985 TFs are on earth. Meanwhile on Cybertron, Shockwave established peace, so the warriors are outlaws. So Ultra Magnus and the coneheads went to earth to subdue and arrest them. The '84 bots are captured (except a few-I know Jazz escaped, I forgot who else) This was a GREAT story! You see, Simon Furman was able to incorporate ALL the G1 backstory, tidbits and genre into his Dreamwave series. IDW STINKS in comparison (You can't blame Furman-he was basically told, "Dreamwave is going bankrupt. So we don't get sued, axe your ENTIRE STORYLINE AND COME UP WITH A BRAND-NEW ONE!" Who can do that in a few months?)

The 1986 Autobots shown here are in some kind of resistance to Shockwave's new order. In this reality, Gnaw (the Sharkticon is a pet of Wheelie's) The story is getting GOOD here! While I don't like the '86 characters replacing the earlier ones back in the day, they use Hot Rod, Kup, Springer and Arcee so well here! Even Wheelie was tolerable!

Lucca Comics And Games 2015 by luca soldaini