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Here's a great book I acquired recently.  It's a great book

that really should have been an even greater book, but I'll get

to that presently.  If you're a true comics fan, you'll have heard

of GENE COLAN.  Gene was a master of light & shade, and one

of the very finest artists ever to freelance for MARVEL.  IRON

MAN, The SUB-MARINER, DAREDEVIL, HOWARD The

DUCK, and DRACULA are just a few of the titles he drew

for 'The House Of Ideas' in the '60s and '70s.

There are some great images in this book, but, unfortu-

nately, there are also some not so great ones.  It's somewhat

disconcerting to read about what a great artist someone is, and

then see pictures that don't quite bear that out.  Case in point is

the pic below.  There's some nice pencil work there, superb tex-

turing, but that apart, it's a pretty awful drawing.  Why?  The fig-

ure is too squat, the head is too big, the body is too small, and the

legs don't look right on any level.  And the fact that DOOM's

left arm appears to be sprouting from the middle of his

torso all result in a less than perfect illustration.

For all the excellent examples of Gene's artistic ability,

there's a few I wish they'd just left out, because they don't

do his reputation any favours at all.  It's not the first time I've

found myself wishing that compilers of volumes such as this one

had been a little more discerning in their choices, and, sadly, this

is one more occasion.  The book also suffers from several areas

of over-printing, where one caption has been printed on top of

another, resulting in something that's practically unread-

able.  Don't they have proofreaders any more?

However, it would be remiss of me not to put things in

context by mentioning that Gene suffered from glaucoma

for many years (being almost blind in one eye and having tun-

nel vision in the other), and had to draw with his face practically

pressed up against the page.  This no doubt explains the instances

when his art wasn't at its best, and makes it all the more amazing

when it was.  So despite its few shortcomings, this tome should

be a welcome addition to the bookshelf of any true fan of 'The

Dean'.  Published in 2010, it should yet be available.  Try

your local FORBIDDEN PLANET first.

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