Happy 2009!
Thought I kick off the year with an american artist I’ve been meaning to feature for a while – the supremely talented Geof Darrow. Here’s a sample from ‘Hard Boiled’ a three issue comic series from 1990, witten by Frank Miller and illustrated in the most meticulous way imaginable.
The plot follows Insurance Investigator Carl Seltz/Nixon/Unit Four on a trail of utter destruction through a sprawling overpopulated dystopia of sin, and plays out like a very violent black comedy. Hard Boiled is packed with visual references, gags and graphic delights – fans of ‘The Matrix’ will also recognise the fetishistic robotic design – Geof worked as a ‘conceptual designer’ on all three films.
Hard boiled is amalgamated into one Dark Horse Graphic Novel here: http://www.amazon.com/Hard-Boiled-Frank-Miller/dp/1878574582/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1230828048&sr=8-2
More on Geof Darrow here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geof_Darrow
A large tribute site: http://www.geofdarrow.net/
[...] the windows simultaneously blow in (clouds of scintillated shards filling the air, much like the Geoff Darrow-designed break-into-the-federal-building sequence of the original Matrix), the floor buckling and [...]
One of my all time faves. This song always reminds me of it, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mu0bZKLuYI8
Haha, yeah I see what you mean!
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