MATT MARRIOTT - ORIGINAL ART DAILY #53 - TONY WEARE ART


MATT MARRIOTT - ORIGINAL ART DAILY #53 - TONY WEARE ART

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MATT MARRIOTT - ORIGINAL ART DAILY #53 - TONY WEARE ART:
$122.50


MATT MARRIOTT - ORIGINAL ARTDAILY #53--TONY WEARE ART. This long standing British comic, quiteprobably the best western strip ever created, is a true classic.....Unlikeit\'s tame 10-gallon hat, \"awww, shucks ma\'am\" American cousins, the Matt Marriotttales were brutal and realistic. The stories were creative, compelling,cut close to the bone and served as a perfect backdrop for Weare\'s art............Original Tony Weare art for Matt Marriott was some of the most difficult art to find in comics. Well, I\'m offering some here.........................This is an exceptional daily from the beginning of the story\"Marshal of Ochre Flat\". When the town is terrorized by the Bishop gang, the Mayor and Judge hire Matt and Powder to protect the good citizens ofOchre Flat. This daily features head outlaw Johnny Bishop at his hideout, with girlfriend Cora and another member of the gang of you unfamiliar with either the strip or Weare\'s art, here\'swhat David Lloyd wrote: \"The late Tony Wearedrew Matt Marriott in the London Evening News from 1957 to1977. Writtenby Jim Edgar, it was the finest and most atmospheric newspaper stripabout the American Wild West that has ever been produced. Tony, as one of just a very few strip artists here and in the US whosecreative identities owed nothing to the heritage of stylization whichinfluenced many other newspaper adventure strip creators - he wasprimarily an illustrator who just happened to love drawing strips. Hisstyle on Marriott was that of a sketch artist - a portrayer of theinstant. It was naturalistic, raw, and unsophisticated - perfect fordepicting the primitive quality of a realistic-looking Wild West. Oneof his major strengths as a strip artist lay in his consistentlycreative compositions. If we look through the three-frame strips thatmake up the Matt Marriott stories we see no evidence of the repeatedformulas of picture design which some strip artists use. Because ofthe sheer weight of material most of these craftsmen have to produce ,easy options in picture composition are often sought by them andrepeated to ease the burden of emitting a constant stream of newlayouts ; but when we look at Tony\'s work it\'s as if we\'re justwatching people going about their business through a lens that he hascleverly positioned for us, not viewing figures which are overtly posedfor appropriate effect. The way he rendered his drawings reflected this\'realistic\' approach to portraying the action, with almost lazilyhandled brush work and pen cross-hatching. He also had a superbcommand of light and shade, which promoted the impression that he wasdrawing something he could see in front of him, rather than somethinghe\'d built up from his imagination.The only things Tonyever hated drawing were mechanical objects of any kind, though thisantipathy is very difficult for any viewer to detect. As a lifelongnature lover he preferred to draw the organic. This passion fordepicting living things above all else, is what gives Tony\'s work theenergy which shines from almost everything he put his brush to. Likeall the best artists, he sought to draw only what he loved to draw.\"...................Lloyd put his money where his mouth was, coaxing Weare out of retirement to work on V for Vendetta. The Weare art for Matt Marriott is powerful and brusque, his brush describing fully formed, complicated images in quick, direct brush strokesThere is white out, most of it in word balloons and along some panel borders (see scans). Otherwise, both the art and the board are in Shipping and handling with the USA is $12 and shipping to Great Britain and Europe is $25.00 for First Class (no tracking) or $45.00 for Global Priority (with tracking). My apologies for the high price for Global Priority, but costs have risen significantly over the past months. And I\'ve gotten a lot of good response about packaging. To my mind, artwork should be shipped with respect. So included in the shipping cost: each piece of art is first sealed in a waterproof bag, then secured to $2.25 worth of reinforced cardboard bound by professional packing tape..................Payment is to be made within 7 days of the conclusion of the sale....Good luck offerding!

MATT MARRIOTT - ORIGINAL ART DAILY #53 - TONY WEARE ART:
$122.50

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