Here's a small selection of some pages and a few covers which caught my eye while pulling out some samples of work from his long career.
Some notes on them...
The Maxx was his signature character, really distinctively designed, playing into all the excesses his work was known for and stretching them even further, to the breaking point. This is from his (kind of) first appearance in DARKER IMAGE #1, scripted by William Messner-Loebs.
More of the Maxx, a few issues in to his on-going series, when things started to get really strange and there was even more going on than you might have expected.
Kieth is also known as the co-creator of The Sandman (with Mike Dringenberg and Neil Gaiman, who also worked on the page above). He only worked on the first five issues, but brought a lot to the book and key to its success. In this page he also gets to draw a nice version of Jack Kirby's character Etrigan.
A 1991 page from a Wolverine story, written by Peter David. I just have a few chapters of this, it's really wild. Would love a nice book of those.
A Hulk page written by Peter David, a really intense standalone issue of the series which presents a different version of the character, really like nothing else being published by Marvel at the time.
A nice double page pin-up of Hadji Quest and his brother Jonny, from when Kieth's frequent collaborator William Messner-Loebs was writing the book featuring the boys. Lot of nice little details in this when you start looking around.
Speaking of Messner-Loebs, he lettered this backup by John Holland and Kieth which appared in the back of his comic JOURNEY. A nice early work by Kieth, showing signs of where he'd go but much more restrained than he would be soon.
A relatively tame page from a truly bonkers Lobo story that Kieth did with Scott Ian.
This is a really fun cover, a tribute to classic 1948 Carl Barks cover.
The most recent page here, from the 2017 ELEANOR & THE EGRET with writer John Layman.
EPICURUS THE SAGE, another work with William Messner-Loebs, has always been my favourite work of Kieth. I wrote about it over here, I'll just add that, four years later, I like it even more.
A really nice fanzine cover, Kieth always had a way of interpreting existing characters in some distinctive ways which stayed true to their roots while looking like nothing you saw before.
From 1990, a nice interpretation of the Giger movie ALIEN xenomorphs, written by Mark Verheiden.
And finally from a 1986 issue of ANYTHING GOES, the earliest example of Kieth's writing I have, which does indeed make me feel a bit stupid, but that's not a bad thing.
The Maxx was his signature character, really distinctively designed, playing into all the excesses his work was known for and stretching them even further, to the breaking point. This is from his (kind of) first appearance in DARKER IMAGE #1, scripted by William Messner-Loebs.
More of the Maxx, a few issues in to his on-going series, when things started to get really strange and there was even more going on than you might have expected.
Kieth is also known as the co-creator of The Sandman (with Mike Dringenberg and Neil Gaiman, who also worked on the page above). He only worked on the first five issues, but brought a lot to the book and key to its success. In this page he also gets to draw a nice version of Jack Kirby's character Etrigan.
A 1991 page from a Wolverine story, written by Peter David. I just have a few chapters of this, it's really wild. Would love a nice book of those.
A Hulk page written by Peter David, a really intense standalone issue of the series which presents a different version of the character, really like nothing else being published by Marvel at the time.
A nice double page pin-up of Hadji Quest and his brother Jonny, from when Kieth's frequent collaborator William Messner-Loebs was writing the book featuring the boys. Lot of nice little details in this when you start looking around.
Speaking of Messner-Loebs, he lettered this backup by John Holland and Kieth which appared in the back of his comic JOURNEY. A nice early work by Kieth, showing signs of where he'd go but much more restrained than he would be soon.
A relatively tame page from a truly bonkers Lobo story that Kieth did with Scott Ian.
This is a really fun cover, a tribute to classic 1948 Carl Barks cover.
The most recent page here, from the 2017 ELEANOR & THE EGRET with writer John Layman.
EPICURUS THE SAGE, another work with William Messner-Loebs, has always been my favourite work of Kieth. I wrote about it over here, I'll just add that, four years later, I like it even more.
A really nice fanzine cover, Kieth always had a way of interpreting existing characters in some distinctive ways which stayed true to their roots while looking like nothing you saw before.
From 1990, a nice interpretation of the Giger movie ALIEN xenomorphs, written by Mark Verheiden.
And finally from a 1986 issue of ANYTHING GOES, the earliest example of Kieth's writing I have, which does indeed make me feel a bit stupid, but that's not a bad thing.
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