Kieth, Sam - TARGET: AIRBOY #1 Cover
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PUBLISHER: Eclipse
COMMENTS: Sam Kieth pencils and inks; cover; 1987; image size 10" x 15"
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Sam Kieth pencils and inks; cover; 1987; image size 10" x 15"Beautiful, Frazetta-esque cover by Kieth, from the debut issue of Eclipse's Target: Airboy series. Kieth, just about to begin his work on Sandman, and before he would go on to become the fan favorite artist on The Maxx and his legendary run on Marvel Comics Presents, shows off his already formidable artistic skills on this cover, with remarkable detail and wonderful composition. Pen and ink. Art is in excellent condition. Signed and dated by Kieth.
Artist Information
Sam Kieth is an American comic artist and writer, best known as the creator of The Maxx and Zero Girl. Kieth’s first published work was “a story in the back of a Comico comic” when he was “about seventeen”; it was “about a killer rabbit named Max the Hare”. He came to prominence in 1984 as the inker of Matt Wagner’s “Mage”, and a year later as the inker of “Fish Police”. In 1989, he penciled the first five issues (the “Preludes & Nocturnes” story arc) of writer Neil Gaiman’s celebrated series “The Sandman” and collaborated with Alan Grant on a Penguin story in “Secret Origins Special #1”. He illustrated two volumes of writer William Messner-Loebs’ “Epicurus the Sage”, drew an Aliens miniseries for Dark Horse Comics, and drew “The Incredible Hulk #368”, which led to illustrating numerous covers for Marvel Comics Presents. In 1993, Kieth left Marvel to create the original series “The Maxx” for Image Comics. The series ran 35 issues, all of which were plotted and illustrated by Kieth. William Messner-Loebs scripted #1–15 and Alan Moore wrote #21. In 1995, The Maxx was adapted as part of MTV’s short-lived animation series MTV’s Oddities. After taking a break from comics to pursue other interests, Kieth created the series “Zero Girl” for DC Comics’ Wildstorm imprint in 2001. He followed that with the drama “Four Women” later that year and “Zero Girl: Full Circle” in 2003. In August 2004, he launched the “Scratch” series featuring a teenage werewolf. Kieth then wrote and drew the five-issue series “Batman: Secrets”, featuring the Joker, and “Batman/Lobo: Deadly Serious”, a two-issue miniseries that began in August 2007. This was followed by 2009’s “Lobo: Highway to Hell”, written by Scott Ian of the band Anthrax, and the painted story “Ghosts”, which appeared in “Batman Confidential #40–43”. In 2010, Kieth wrote and illustrated the original hardcover graphic novel “Arkham Asylum: Madness”, which spent two weeks on The New York Times Best Sellers List, reaching number five in the category of “Hardcover Graphic Books”. In addition to co-producing The Maxx animated series for MTV, Kieth co-wrote “No Smoking”, the pilot to Cow and Chicken, and directed the film “Take It to the Limit” (2000) for Roger Corman’s Concorde-New Horizons.
Artist Information
Sam Kieth is an American comic artist and writer, best known as the creator of The Maxx and Zero Girl. Kieth’s first published work was “a story in the back of a Comico comic” when he was “about seventeen”; it was “about a killer rabbit named Max the Hare”. He came to prominence in 1984 as the inker of Matt Wagner’s “Mage”, and a year later as the inker of “Fish Police”. In 1989, he penciled the first five issues (the “Preludes & Nocturnes” story arc) of writer Neil Gaiman’s celebrated series “The Sandman” and collaborated with Alan Grant on a Penguin story in “Secret Origins Special #1”. He illustrated two volumes of writer William Messner-Loebs’ “Epicurus the Sage”, drew an Aliens miniseries for Dark Horse Comics, and drew “The Incredible Hulk #368”, which led to illustrating numerous covers for Marvel Comics Presents. In 1993, Kieth left Marvel to create the original series “The Maxx” for Image Comics. The series ran 35 issues, all of which were plotted and illustrated by Kieth. William Messner-Loebs scripted #1–15 and Alan Moore wrote #21. In 1995, The Maxx was adapted as part of MTV’s short-lived animation series MTV’s Oddities. After taking a break from comics to pursue other interests, Kieth created the series “Zero Girl” for DC Comics’ Wildstorm imprint in 2001. He followed that with the drama “Four Women” later that year and “Zero Girl: Full Circle” in 2003. In August 2004, he launched the “Scratch” series featuring a teenage werewolf. Kieth then wrote and drew the five-issue series “Batman: Secrets”, featuring the Joker, and “Batman/Lobo: Deadly Serious”, a two-issue miniseries that began in August 2007. This was followed by 2009’s “Lobo: Highway to Hell”, written by Scott Ian of the band Anthrax, and the painted story “Ghosts”, which appeared in “Batman Confidential #40–43”. In 2010, Kieth wrote and illustrated the original hardcover graphic novel “Arkham Asylum: Madness”, which spent two weeks on The New York Times Best Sellers List, reaching number five in the category of “Hardcover Graphic Books”. In addition to co-producing The Maxx animated series for MTV, Kieth co-wrote “No Smoking”, the pilot to Cow and Chicken, and directed the film “Take It to the Limit” (2000) for Roger Corman’s Concorde-New Horizons.