HOPE YOU LIKE IT: The Art of DAKOTA ALEXANDER…
I personally think that Marvel has always done a better job when showing the cosmic. Dates back to Kirby, sure, but an ethereal, spacey quality imbues their more out-there comics in a way that DC’s never has.
Here, we get the best of both worlds, with this Martian Manhunter piece by Dakota:
But it wasn’t Kirby or Starlin whom Dakota was thinking of when he did this.
“This was at a very Darwyn Cooke period for me,” sez Dakota. “I had (finally) read The New Frontier and it rocked my world, and so I was doing a lot of Cooke-style DC art for a bit.”
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DAKOTA ALEXANDER is an American artist living in Japan. He’s worked on many projects, such as The Liberty Brigade, The Masters, Charon 13, and G.H.O.S.T. Agents. His latest is his love letter to Bronze Age superhero-horror comics, The Hunter, which is now available at his Etsy, Drums of the Serpent.
