LIMITED EDITION SKETCHBOOKS for sale in the POP CULTURE SHOP eBAY store
PRODUCT DESCRIPTION
VERY RARE DARWYN COOKE HARDCOVER ART BOOK!!
RETROACTIVE 1998-2008.
LIMITED EDITION OF 1,000 COPIES!
The new 2008 Full Color coffee table art book!
Fantastic goodies from the pen of DARWYN COOKE.
THIS IS A LIMITED EDITION... and is already sold out from the publisher and is OUT OF PRINT !!! COOKE's first ever hard cover, full-color sketchbook.
Date Issued/Released: July 2008
LIMITED EDITION
A collection of fantastic artwork, full color illustrations and sketches. Emmy Nominated for DC: THE NEW FRONTIER, Darwyn Cooke's retro-future art is a thing of pure beauty. RETROACTIVE is a beautiful full-color hardcover of all new and never before seen treasures and selected rarities from Darwyn's time as an animation artist through to his current career as a superstar comic book writer/illustrator. best known for his works in DC: The New Frontier, Spider-Man's Tangled Web, X-Force, and Batman Beyond
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
ISBN: 13 978-0-9793447-93-0
8 3/4x12 3/8, Full-Color, Full-Bleed, Hardcover, Perfect bound-Sewn Pages
EXCELLENT CONDITION. BRAND NEW FACTORY SEALED IN PLASTIC.
Collector's Item
collection of selected art produced over the last ten years, from Darwyn’s time as an animation artist through to his current career as a superstar comic book writer/illustrator. The book collects all-new, never-before-published art, rarely-seen material, and some sketchbook pages, with most being finished, full-color illustrations.
Images featured include:
* JUSTICE LEAGUE NEW FRONTIER
* CATWOMAN
* THE SPIRIT
* POWER GIRL
* IRON MAN
* PULP STYLE ILLUSTRATIONS
* Character Designs and Concept Art
* and Many Many MORE!
One of the hottest items at this past summer’s Comic-Con International San Diego was Darwyn Cooke’s new art book, Retroactive. The print run was limited to 1,000 copies and that Cooke sold out of the copies he brought with him to the convention.
The book showcases the diversity of Cooke’s craft. He’s best known for a simpler approach to DC’s super-heroes with a noir sensibility, in keeping with the influence of animator Bruce Timm. That aspect of Cooke’s efforts is showcased in this book, but there’s more to be found as well. A detailed yet more exaggerated cartoon entitled Grimoire 2004 is included as well, and it looks quite unlike Cooke’s other efforts. We also get a glimpse at an art-deco experiment when it comes to Cooke’s design for poster about Canadian comics awards. His merging of the tools of the comic artist’s trade with a classic cityscape is quite attractive.
Another highlight of the book is a two-page spread featuring the Spirit and two members of the supporting cast. Perhaps the strongest images in the book are a couple of select sketches of Selina Kyle, AKA DC’s Catwoman. Cooke’s recent Heroes Con poster and covers for small-press books such as Spellgame and Comics Festival.
An EXTREMELY RARE item!!
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