New Mutants Pin-Ups

[sandoz_iscariot]

Reposted from SD 1.0, a series of beautiful Bill Sienkiewicz character pin-ups from his New Mutants run.

Comments

Bill Sienkiewicz is awesome.

[proteus_lives]

I still have these somewhere. Sigh...memories, I loved the original run of the New Mutants so much.

[iskander]

If Bill Sienkiewicz drew this book again I would toally pick this up. That Sunspot pinup is right out of "International Male"

[nezchan]

Never cared for Sienkiewicz at all, unfortunately. I just thought his stuff looked like a muddy mess.

Although he did the definitive Warlock, so that makes up for all the rest.

[silverzeo]

AHHH! 80's Pop Art! It Burns!

[cleome45]

Though I still like the art from this era, I count the whole Lila Cheney/Sam routine as my personal point-at-which-the-wheels-came-off.

[crabby_lioness]

Those were good days.

[selke]

Yay, Catseye! I love her from what I've seen. It's a shame my first experience with the Hellions was when they, y'know, died.

[salamangkiero]

The Demon Bear Saga is still the early high-point of the series, for me. It left me nightmares, knowing that somehow, the clost monsters can be real.

[suzene]

I remember these! The Catseye and Wolfsbane portraits are still my faves. Those two really needed more screentime together.

[icon_uk]

As I thought at the time, like the New Mutants and Hellions though I do, LILA CHENEY got a freaking pinup and Doug didn't? Bad form guys, bad form...

[jkcarrier]

You know, Claremont, the reason Sienkiewicz uses all that negative space is to make the design better, not so you can fill it up with acres of purple prose. Yeesh.

[kingrockwell]

Lovely!

[freddie_mac]

Sienkiewicz's art started right around the Demon Bear storyline (#18, IIRC), and I don't think I would have been as receptive if he'd started off with a "normal" story. However, given that DB was such a bizarre story, his art really set the tone. It strikes me that DB was a definite marker in NM vol. 1, where they had "normal" stories before that (NM graphic novel, 1-17), but post-DB things became much more warped. One of my favorite artists -- Sienkiewicz is responsible for making me think about those pictures in my comics in an entirely different way, and for making me realize just how much the *right* art could enhance a story.

[x5455]

Berto's looking a little how you doin? in that pinup...