Just heard of the passing of Sal Buscema at age 89. A talented and prolific artist with a long career in comics, mostly at Marvel, with long runs on Spider-Man, Hulk, ROM, Captain America, Thor and Defenders, plus work on almost everything else at some point.
A couple of covers he drew:
Good mid-career interview with him in that issue of CI to go with the career spanning one in the TwoMorrows book (still available digitally). That THOR cover is the only one he did on his run with Walter Simonson on the book in the 1980s, drawing most of the second half of Simonson's run, including the BALDER THE BRAVE mini-series.
And some interior pages
A page from the aforementioned BALDER mini-series with Simonson, maybe my favourite work of his.
A Christmas story featuring Jack Kirby's Orion and Highfather, also written by Simonson, from a brief late 1990s stint at DC where he mostly worked as an inker, but did a few pencils and even fewer full art jobs like this one. I especially like the sequence at the bottom of this page.
Another Christmas story, this time from Marvel in the early 1990s, featuring the X-Men, written by Karl Bollers.
A 1970s page from THE INCREDIBLE HULK, maybe the character Buscema is most associated with, written by Bill Mantlo, one of his most frequent collaborators.
Another Mantlo collaboration, this one from ROM #1 in 1979, a character ostensibly based on a toy, but one where the comic book creators pretty much had to create all the back-story for.
And another Simonson collaboration, from their final issue of THOR in 1987, an action packed conclusion to a classic run.