A 15% BUYER'S PREMIUM WILL BE ADDED TO THIS ITEM AT CONCLUSION OF THE AUCTION Michael Avon Oeming pencils and inks;Cave Carson Has A Cybernetic Eye #1 Original Cover Art (DC Comics, 2016); 11" x 17"
From DC’s Modern Age – Original comic art of “Cave Carson” from the publisher’s Young Animal series with writer Gerard WayThe iconic original Cover Art to the 1st Issue in the Cave Carson Has A Cybernetic Eye storyline! The character first appeared in Brave and the Bold #31 (September 1960); he was created by France Herron and Bruno Premiani. The art is accomplished in ink over blueline on Bristol board, measuring approximately 11 x 17 inches, is signed by the artist in the lower right and is in excellent condition.
The Story:
Cave Carson has done it all: survived countless adventures below the Earth’s surface, met the love of his life, and gotten a cybernetic eye…somehow. After he and his wife, Eileen, sent their only daughter Chloe off to college, Cave was ready to become just another mundane member of the surface world. That is, until Eileen got sick. Newly widowed, Cave tries to piece his life back together when a knock on the door of his secret underground lab pulls him back into a past that he and Eileen thought they had left buried deep within the Earth.
Adding to his troubles, Cave must determine if his recent hallucinations and visions are the work of his mind or his mysterious cybernetic eye. (Spoiler: It’s the eye.)
Written by Gerard Way DOOM PATROL and Umbrella Academy and Jon Rivera Heartbreak and illustrated by Michael Avon Oeming Powers, this is an absurdist action-adventure story unlike any other!
The image of the published cover is for reference only.
Read More about this piece at earthshinestudios.comArtist InformationMichael Avon Oeming is an American comic book creator, both as an artist and writer.
Oeming is a fan of ancient mythology, having written or drawn several projects centering on the Norse gods. He frequently collaborates with long-time friend Bryan J. L. Glass and with Brian Michael Bendis. He is part of the M.O.B. crew of comic book creators, along with David Mack, Brian Bendis and Daniel Berman.
His 1998 comic book Bulletproof Monk was made into a film of the same name.
The previous mentioned collaborations are The Mice Templar from Image Comics, which he illustrates and co-authors with Bryan J.L. Glass, and Powers from Icon Comics in which he illustrates and occasionally co-authors with Brian Bendis. His creator-owned projects include Rapture, on which he collaborated with his wife, Taki Soma and The Victories, both for Dark Horse Comics.