A killer example of late 70s/early 80s comic art– courtesy of an unsung journeymen, the great Walt Simonson.

I often find that my tastes in 20th Century mass culture run not to The Stewards & The Highly Acclaimed, but rather the work-a-day dudes who were just churning it out, sometimes getting it right, sometimes not-so-right and sometimes killing that shit.

Simonson– and maybe someone like Herb Trimpe– is best understood as a comics analogue to directors like the profoundly underrated Don Siegel (is there any better American film from the 1970s than Dirty Harry?) or Robert Wise or even home-team favorite Robert Aldrich.

(Future Foreshadowing for the Stans: Aldrich’s Kiss Me Deadly basically ruined my life.)

Huzzah.