Jim steranko has established variegated careers in closeup and escape magic, rock n roll, graphic design, comic books, and illustration. Jim starlin served as an aviation photographer in the us navy in vietnam. He wasnt the first artist to work for marvel in the silver age, and he wasnt the most prolific artist to work for marvel in the silver age, but when you think of inventive artists. Shanna the shedevil is a fictional jungle adventurer in comic books published by marvel comics. Until you earn points all your submissions need to be vetted by other comic vine users. At a time in comics when it was the overly wordy exposition that crowded out the illustrations in half of the panels, steranko s visuals spoke volumes more than could be contained by any balloon. Jim steranko comic book art for sale value guide heritage. This process takes no more than a few hours and well send you an email once approved. His most famous comic book work was with the 1960s superspy feature nick fury, agent of s. He began his career in 1970 working for texas trio on the title doctor weird. This is our collection of comic issues where the cover was drawn by jim steranko. Jim steranko turned the comic book industry on its ear when he burst on the scene in 1966. Jim steranko was born in reading pennsylvania in 1938. Jim steranko is an american artist of influential comic book art, most notably for marvel during the silver age of comics.
Colorful, legendary comic book artist jim steranko slated for wizard. The voynich code the worlds most mysterious manuscript the secrets of nature duration. Discover delightful childrens books with prime book box, a subscription that delivers new books every 1, 2, or 3 months new customers receive 15% off your. Jim steranko, tom orzechowski, angel medina, tom defalco, darryl banks, more. All portions of the grand comics database, except where noted otherwise, are ed by the gcd and are licensed under a creative commons attributionsharealike 4. The grand comics database gcd is a nonprofit, internetbased organization of international volunteers dedicated to building an open database covering all printed comics throughout the world. Give our search a try, take a look at the menu to the left to see how you can help us improve the site, or use to track and manage your comic collection. The comicbook art of jim steranko books the guardian. He fought to remobe the blocks of the standard traditional 9 pannel page. Jim steranko 36 followers james steranko is an american graphic artist, comic book writerartisthistorian, magician, publisher and film production illustrator who has work for decades till the present. If you create a free account and sign in, you will be able to customize what is displayed. Steranko put himself on the marvel map when he took a struggling nick fury, agent of shield title part of the strange tales book in the. Interview with comic book legend jim steranko youtube.
If you find an issue in the database that is not shown here, please edit that issue adding jim steranko as one of the cover artists. This is our collection of works written by jim steranko. If you find an issue in the database that is not shown here, please edit that issue adding jim steranko as one of the writers. A list of key comic books written by jim steranko provided by key collector comics. Steranko is an american graphic artist, comic book writerartist, comics historian, magician, publisher and film production illustrator. The tv presenter and comicbook obsessive on the extraordinary work of graphic storyteller jim steranko. A selection of work from the legendary comicbook artist, who counts jonathan ross among his biggest fans. The great lakes comic convention feb 2122 2020 warren. The book is not truly a history of comics, as it just covers the beginning of the industry, and just covers early comics, but it still well worth owning, even today. This week id like to feature the oversized magazine book entitled. By creating an account, you verify that you are at least years of age, and have read and agree to the terms of service and privacy.
Mile high comics comic creator database credits for jim. The son of a tinsmith, steranko grew up poor, in a household that mostly derided his artistic interests. Jonathan ross meets jim steranko, his comicbook hero books. Two years later he was hired by marvel comics to work on titles as journey into mystery and the. Fandom may earn an affiliate commission on sales made from links on this page. This includes but is not necessarily limited to our database schema and data distribution format. Originally another jack kirby clone in the same way barry smith was. Vic talks to jim in the halls of the san diego comic con and we see a little about the history of his career.
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