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So a long time ago (the mid-1990s), the greatest writer in comics agreed to take over the writing duties for Image Comics' Supreme. He would radically reshape the character, the book, and due to forces beyond his control, a whole comic book universe. And it led to an award-winning run of comics, three additional titles (among several proposed) and ultimately led to the genesis of Moore's much better known America's Best Comics. And then it all went out of print and was forgotten by way too many.

Having gathered quite a bit of information about Moore's Supreme and Awesome runs, I decided to create a home for the forgotten Awesome. Over the course of a year, I put it all together here.

Each week I did a main "Weekly Reading" post that was a read-through of that issue. I followed that up with a couple of other posts about topics from that Weekly Reading or whatever else I came up with to talk about. You'll find the lost Youngbloods in the Youngblood section and the fan-edit of the last Supreme in After Awesome.

Below is the archive of posts broken up by book. Thanks for checking the site out!

Book 1: Supreme: The Story of the Year

Book 1: Judgment Day

Book 3: Supreme: The Return

Book 4: Youngblood

Book 5: Glory

Book 6: After Awesome

Book 7: 1963

Book 8: Night Raven

Book 9: A Small Killing

Monday, October 26, 2020

A beautiful Sprouse commission

 Chris Sprouse posted this on his Facebook recently:

"Digital pencils, which I printed out and inked on a separate sheet of paper with the help of a lightbox."


"Unfinished inks/inked linework. When doing color pieces, I use pretty heavy, nearly opaque watercolors sometimes, and certain colors will just sit on top of the black ink. For that reason it's better to fill in all the solid black areas after all the colors are applied and dry."

 

"Colors, done using brush and watercolors. There are actually clouds and some light blue sky in the final drawing, but I did this piece in a hotel room after hours at a convention and was at the mercy of the crappy Kinko's scanner I had to use to capture it the next day. The blue just didn't reproduce at all."

2 comments:

  1. Always loved Sprouse's work, including on Supreme and Tom Strong with Alan Moore.

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