Hellblazer Cover Day!

[Jesusjon]

MNSN just had a heart attack, but no, it's not a Fabry. It IS however one of my very favorite Constantine images EVER, including all the Fabry covers. Just John being the super occult badass he always is, and being wholly unapologetic about it.

 

Smoke em if you got em!

 

(This is not THE art day that I have coming up in a couple weeks -- stay tuned for what I sold my firstborn for...)

[Tatterdamillion]

I'm green! That is awesome! I love his work.

[shiverbones]

geez! That's a heckuva image! What better representation of the Character could you ask for?!

[armydoc]

 

That's on of his best pieces yet. I was wondering who snagged this when I saw it listed as on hold at Splashpage. That is definitely a framer. Beautiful.

[mister_not_so_nice]

Yeah, I saw that in your CAF. Bermejo is quickly making a name for himself as THE Hellblazer cover artist.

 

What a Baztard!!(Constantine I mean, Not J)

[slackjawcomics]

Great piece!

[comicartfan]

I saw that on CAF and was like "Whoaa !".....

 

Terrific piece and I think Lee is a tremendous talent. I am trying to get a piece by him in the next few months...I've been speaking to his rep about it....Hopefully it will happen

[Jesusjon]

Thanks all. One of my other favorite Bermejo Hellblazer covers is in Christopher Haggard's gallery here! I too think he's super talented, and his rep Mark Hay, over at Splash page, is easy to deal with and gets a (thumbs u from me!

[jbud73]

yes the 230 is a sweet one (thumbs u

[invisibleghosts]

Congrats! A very nice pickup...it will look sweet framed!

 

His take on John is so amazing and full of detail, I have not seen a cover by him yet that I don't like!

[He11blazer]

MNSN just had a heart attack, but no, it's not a Fabry. It IS however one of my very favorite Constantine images EVER, including all the Fabry covers. Just John being the super occult badass he always is, and being wholly unapologetic about it.

 

Smoke em if you got em!

 

(This is not THE art day that I have coming up in a couple weeks -- stay tuned for what I sold my firstborn for...)

 

Superb piece Jesusjon! You can really see the Sting resemblance in that one.

 

I googled this little snippet from Alan Moore regarding Sting being the model for JC:

 

"One of those early notes was they both [bissette and Totleben] wanted to do a character that looked like Sting. I think DC is terrified that Sting will sue them, although Sting has seen the character and commented in Rolling Stone that he thought it was great. He was very flattered to have a comic character who looked like him, but DC gets nervous about these things. They started to eradicate all traces of references in the introduction of the early Swamp Thing books to John Constantine's resemblance to Sting . But I can state categorically that the character only existed because Steve and John wanted to do a character that looked like Sting."

 

That Bermejo cover of yours combines Sting's looks with JC's 'aura' perfectly. Very nice

 

Wish I had a cover. A Fabry HB cover is one of my goals in life! I actually live in the same town as him (Brighton) and my mother does some volunteer work alongside his wife. Which reminds me, I must tell my mum to work on that relationship!

[Jesusjon]

Sweet tidbit, HB! Thanks for the knowledge.

(thumbs u

 

[He11blazer]

Just found this thread again and I have to say, that is one of the coolest pieces of Hellblazer OA I've seen. Most envious :-)