The hat squad
Today's Comic Art Friday is brought to you by Real California Cheese. Why? Because everything is better with cheese. Even comics.
Just one artwork for you this week, but it's a honey. More accurately, it's a couple of honeys, posing for artist Anthony Carpenter's lushly penciled entry in my Common Elements series. That's Lady Luck — Will Eisner's two-fisted female counterpart to The Spirit — on the left, and Zatanna — backward-speaking sorceress supreme — on the right.
One of the earliest masked superheroines in comics, Lady Luck is long overdue for a revival. Created by Will Eisner as a backup feature for the Spirit Sunday newspaper supplement in 1940, Lady Luck (also known as poor little rich girl Brenda Banks) appeared weekly alongside Eisner's better-known hero for seven years. During most of that time, her adventures were illustrated by Finnish-born Klaus Nordling, a brilliantly skilled artist who was also one of Eisner's ghosts on The Spirit during World War II.
A second-generation superhero, Zatanna was the daughter of Zatara the Magician, one of the many knockoffs of Mandrake the Magician, who pioneered the whole magician-as-action-hero genre. Zatara's offspring first appeared on the scene in 1964 and has been a mainstay of the DC Comics pantheon ever since. She's often described as the bane of comic artists due to the painstaking crosshatching required to render her trademark fishnet stockings.
The common element here? Both heroines wear hats, of course.
Just one artwork for you this week, but it's a honey. More accurately, it's a couple of honeys, posing for artist Anthony Carpenter's lushly penciled entry in my Common Elements series. That's Lady Luck — Will Eisner's two-fisted female counterpart to The Spirit — on the left, and Zatanna — backward-speaking sorceress supreme — on the right.
One of the earliest masked superheroines in comics, Lady Luck is long overdue for a revival. Created by Will Eisner as a backup feature for the Spirit Sunday newspaper supplement in 1940, Lady Luck (also known as poor little rich girl Brenda Banks) appeared weekly alongside Eisner's better-known hero for seven years. During most of that time, her adventures were illustrated by Finnish-born Klaus Nordling, a brilliantly skilled artist who was also one of Eisner's ghosts on The Spirit during World War II.
A second-generation superhero, Zatanna was the daughter of Zatara the Magician, one of the many knockoffs of Mandrake the Magician, who pioneered the whole magician-as-action-hero genre. Zatara's offspring first appeared on the scene in 1964 and has been a mainstay of the DC Comics pantheon ever since. She's often described as the bane of comic artists due to the painstaking crosshatching required to render her trademark fishnet stockings.
The common element here? Both heroines wear hats, of course.
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