Chris Sprouse: Commissions and Evolution of a Comic Page

Unfortunately, Supreme: The Return #1 is the last we'll see of Chris Sprouse except for a cover he did for Youngblood, so let's send him out in style.

I had the opportunity to meet him at the CXC Comic Convention in Columbus, OH on Oct. 1, 2017 (pictured at right), and he was gracious enough to do this Supreme commission for me (which you can see him working on in that photo). It was very cool to meet a hero of mine:

I framed the piece with a Supreme poster signed by Sprouse and with an Alan Moore-signed script for issue #46:

Sprouse has been asked to do a number of Supreme commissions over the years, which I've collected from various sources and posted here:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There's also this Wizard pin up:

As you can see from my commission, Sprouse uses blue sketches to help guide him to make the best finished drawing he can. He does this all the time and you can often find some of his sketch guides online. Anyway, Checker, when they published the Supreme trades much later, included a cool feature that shows some of Sprouse's sketches and how they became final images. Here is the Evolution of a Comic Page: