Mike Norton + Bill Sienkiewicz = Awesome

16 Posted on Jun 8, 2009 in articles by Ron Richards |

One of the best aspects, in my opinion, of the production of comic books is the collaborative nature of the work. You get a writer, who works with an artist, who works with an inker, who works with a colorist etc. and the end result is unique every time.

Recently Mike Norton, artist on DC Comics Green Arrow/Black Canary mentioned that he was working with legendary artist Bill Sienkiewicz and today over on his blog, he's posted a preview of what that looks like.

With Norton providing a rough penciled layout, Sienkiewicz comes in and does the finishes, which is fascinating to see their styles merge to create something I didn't expect. With many artists, we tend to expect things based on their personal style, but this aspect of collaboration seems to bring out something new in two artists who both have their own distinctive styles.

I can't wait to see the finished product in the issue when it comes out!

Comments

That's pretty dope.

Posted by Neb on 06/08/09 at 11:21 AM

Holy crap... the Norton/Sienkiewicz combo is an awesome one. More please!!!

the Tiki

Posted by thefreakytiki on 06/08/09 at 12:05 PM

Interesting; those are some good looking pages. I like that you can look at both of the artists alone, and this really feels like somewhere in between their independent pieces.

Posted by Quentin on 06/08/09 at 12:20 PM

Very awesome.

Posted by PraxJarvin on 06/08/09 at 12:33 PM

Fab combo. If you look at Mike's blog and check out both the pencils and the inks, you can really see how Bill takes out some of Mike's cute and replaces it with a little bit of his own crazy. Also, he gave the Black Canary bigger hips, and I like my superheroines with a little more oomph.

Posted by soniaharris on 06/08/09 at 12:44 PM

Yeah, that's a Black Canary I can jump on board with...do I see any innuendo in my statement? Oh well, I'll shrug it off this time.

Posted by mcbaker on 06/08/09 at 02:28 PM

Very clean for Sienkiewicz, at least from what I've seen from him. Very nice, hopefully the colors won't go to that sketchy, dirty, dark route to mess this up.

Posted by Dan on 06/08/09 at 03:08 PM

Where's the stockings!? :)

Posted by TheNextChampion on 06/08/09 at 03:24 PM

That's fantastic!

Posted by conor on 06/08/09 at 03:27 PM

I absolutely love love love Nike's work on Green Arrow and now with the Sienkiewicz finishes on top its look ultra tasty. By the way there are no stockings because that isn't Black Canary, it's Cupid. She's the new Green Arrow psycho-stalker that has been added this last story line. It's been nice to have a lethario like Ollie have a woman chasing him that he isn't interested in.

Posted by Cropcirkill on 06/08/09 at 07:13 PM

No fishnets cuz that's not Black Canary. ;) I believe that's the girl that has been infatuated with him in recent issues. This is after BC and GA have split (thus the two co-features and the two different inkers in the book).

But as for the art: soooo good to see some Sienkiewicz inks. I love his style. And over Norton's pencils -- wow!

i may have to test out this series again...

Posted by daccampo on 06/08/09 at 07:17 PM