Friday, April 17, 2015

Spirit Cover Prelims

Preliminary sketches for Various Spirit reprint covers, accompanied by the final cover:
All art by Will Eisner (Colorists and inkers are posted below respective covers)
Some are obvious others were changed completely

                                                  Warren Publishing The Spirit #4 (1974)
                                                       Inks and Coloring by Ken Kelly.                                                                                                              Inspired by "Life Below" 2/22/48

                                                  Warren Publishing The Spirit #5(1974)
                                                       Inks and Coloring by Ken Kelly
                   Both Prelim and Final Cover Inspired by different aspects of "Hamid Jebru" 5/8/49

                                                  Warren Publishing The Spirit #10(1975)
                                                        Inks and Coloring by Ken Kelly
                                      Prelim 1 inspired by "The Octopus is Back" 2/11/51(?).
                                                      Prelim 2 inspired by "Heat" 7/15/51.
                                                                Final cover inspired by ?

                                                  Warren Publishing The Spirit #11(1975)
                                                        Inks and Coloring by Ken Kelly
                                           Prelims 1 and 2 inspired by "The Jewel" 3/12/50
                                      (the octopus he's struggling with never appears though)
                                              Prelim 3 inspired by "Plaster of Paris" 11/7/48

                                                    Kitchen Sink Comix The Spirit #4(1984)
                                                Inks by Will Eisner, Colors by Pete Poplaski
                                                     Inspired by "The Last Trolley" 3/24/46

                                                  Kitchen Sink Comix The Spirit #6(1984)
                                               Inks by Will Eisner, Colors by Pete Poplaski
                                                    Inspired by "Carrion's Rock" 5/19/46

                                                Kitchen Sink Comix The Spirit #10(1985)
                                                Inks by Will Eisner, Colors by Pete Poplaski
        Prelim inspired by "Meet P'Gell" 10/6/46(?). Final Cover Inspired by "Meet P'Gell" 10/6/46

                                               Kitchen Sink Comix The Spirit #36(1987)
                                           Inks by Will Eisner, Colors by Ray Fehrenbach
                                                  Prelim 1 inspired by "Gold" 10/10/48
                              Prelim 2 and Final cover inspired by "Tooty Compote" 10/3/48

                                               Kitchen Sink Comix The Spirit #61(1989)
                                            Inks by Will Eisner, Colors by Ray Fehrenbach
                                                    Inspired by "Teacher's Pet" 9/10/1950

                                                Kitchen Sink Comix The Spirit #71(1990)
                                             Inks by Will Eisner, Colors by Ray Fehrenbach
                                                          Inspired by "Wanchu" 6/10/51

Just a few obviously. More to come in the future!


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