![]() ![]() Sienkiewicz’s unhinged and often lysergic artwork only emphasizes the disorienting psychological emphasis Miller foregrounds in these books. ![]() Realistic textures would press against hyper-exaggerated figures, like the enormous Kingpin within Daredevil: Love and War. Sienkiewicz strayed from traditional “representative” comic art into stylised watercolors that bordered on expressionism and abstraction. It’s appropriate that Sienkiewicz worked on both these books, as his distinctive art-style exemplifies the disruptive innovation occurring in ‘80s mainstream comics. And both were illustrated by Bill Sienkiewicz. So, in addition to Born Again, Frank Miller wrote two more ground-breaking, experimental, standalone Daredevil (adjacent) stories in 1986. Frank Miller was commissioned to help boost sales of the imprint, resulting in the explicit and psychedelic limited-series Elektra: Assassin. ![]() Epic would publish high-quality, creator-owned series which would be distributed to the direct market, and therefore avoid Comics Code Authority censorship over vulgarity and nudity. ![]() The Marvel Graphic Novel was one commercial exercise of the 1980s, but editor-in-chief Jim Shooter also experimented with the Epic Comics imprint. ![]()
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