Charles D Shell

Alphonse Mucha: A Father of Graphic Art

(Originally posted on December 6, 2017) I’m certain you’ve seen an Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939) print at some point in your life.  So many of his prints have saturated the artistic landscape that I think it’s inevitable you’ve seen one.  The problem is you probably didn’t know the man’s name.  Which is a crime. Alphonse Mucha […]

Adam Warlock and the Magus (Forgotten Gems)

(Originally posted on November 30, 2016) Adam Warlock was a Marvel Comics character who first turned up in the pages of Fantastic Four in 1967.  Cobbled together by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, and originally called ‘Him’, Warlock appeared sporadically for several years.  Roy Thomas later turned him into a kind of superhero messiah, inspired […]

Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez: An Artist Who Needs More Love

(Originally posted on November 2, 2016) Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez first came to my attention back in the early eighties in the DC Comic Atari Force.  The only reason I was aware of this comic was because they included mini-comics in the Atari 2600 games for some titles like Defender and Berzerk.  The mini-comics later became […]

Wendy Pini: An Artist Who Needs More Love

(Originally posted on August 31, 2016) Back in my youth in the early eighties, I ran across an indie comic at a science fiction convention.  It was called Elfquest. I had never seen a comic like this before.  It was in a larger format, was detailed black & white and didn’t have superheroes or any […]