Frank'sCuratedComics: Set Sale 4 - Six From Sirius/John Bolton/Elric

For all you PAUL GULACY fans

Please email me capneasyATgmail to buy. I will send you PayPal address info.

I have ONE of these sets left.

25 bux postpaid gets you:

Six From Sirius - four issue set - 1984
John Bolton collection - two issue set - early 80s collection

Elric three issue set - 1983

**orders to Canada are $35 postpaid. Overseas order $50 postpaid

Six From Sirius (below) - four issue set

A deluxe full color painted comic from Paul Gulacy. This was 1984 Epic Comic. One of the most detail oriented illustration-like painting jobs ever! This is sort of the zenith of Gulacy as "filmmaker". So many references and perfectly painted bits sort of overwhelm the star wars type story. But tht's fine, because who's going to actually read it anyways?

John Bolton - Halls of Horror (below)

This two issue set is a collection of John Bolton stories. From the early 80s. Bolton was like a British Berni Wrightson. But better. Less cartoony. More serious. He's one of those guys like Charles Vess who can just wow you with individual drawings and panel arrangements. The stories are your straightforward werewolf tales or dinosaur romps. Nice watery colors by Tim Smith.

Next up, Elric (below). I've written about this comic before here. This is one of my favorite comics because of the color process used to create it. P.Craig Russell and Michael T. Gilbert used watercolor, airbrush, dyes, inks, and the kitchen sink to color this one.

This is one of those examples of a creative team working together and figuring it out as they go and you can see that figuring out right on the page. Each issue's art gets better and it's exciting to see the palette and the drawings change.

Read the linked to article about the color process above - just remember that this was a watershed moment in comics coloring. It was early in the development of making full color comics and printing them affordably.

Check out the vibrancy of the colors in these panels. This independent series from Pacific Comics was a minor big deal because it was the beginning of the indy publishers outdoing the big publishers with nice paper and fancy inks.