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magical Barry Smith cover (4/85) COMIC BOOK IMPACT rating of 6 (CBI)



Artists Information

Smith rose to prominence thanks to his incredibly detailed and beautiful work on Marvels' Conan the Barbarian, which employed an approach that had never been seen in comics before. The artist worked on several titles at Marvel in the Silver Age before launching his own pin-up publishing house Gorblimey Press, which he used to release impressive lithos to his fan base. Working through the decades, Smith became more and more disillusioned about the comic industry and its unfair treatment of artists, so he slowly started to withdraw from the business. Occasionally popping up with the odd series of graphic novel. Smith is commonly recognized as one of the great artists in the history of comics. He once created a fictional comic book for Oliver Stone's movie "The Hand" which was based on Conan, and Michael Caine played the lead, a character that was a comic book artist that bore a striking resemblance to Smith.

David Mazzucchelli gained fame with a memorable run on Daredevil, concluding with Frank Miller's classic storyline 'Born Again'. He would go on to illustrate Miller's Batman: Year One at DC. After that, with a short Angel story in Marvel Fanfare closing out his mainstream career, Mazzucchelli studied printmaking and launched the groundbreaking self-published anthology series Rubber Blanket with his wife Richmond Lewis. Mazzuccelli's work has been sporadic since the turn of the millenium, with his award winning graphic novel Asterious Polyp being his last major work to this point. His influence in comics cannot be understated, a whole generation of artists have studied his work making him one of the most influential artists of the last 40 years.