Art Appreciation
Best known for his comic book illustrations of Marvel Comics' Conan the Barbarian and Wolverine, Barry Windsor-Smith was born on May 25, 1949 in London.
He displayed artistic abilities as an early age. He pursued an education in arts, earning a degree in Industrial Design and Illustration.
Before he turned 21, he published a single page "Powerhouse Pinups" of Marvel Comics characters for Terrific and Frantic comics. A short time after, he flew to the U.S. and met with the infamous Stan Lee who gave him the job of drawing both the cover and story of X-Men No 53.
Windsor-Smith left Marvel to become the creative director and lead artist at Valiant Comics. He was with Valiant Comics until 1993. He did work for Malibu Comics' Ultraverse, WildStorm Productions/Image Comics, and Dark Horse Comics.
In the 2000s he worked on several cover arts for Marvel Titles before publishing Windsor-Smith's Young Gods and Friends with Fantagraphics Books. In 2021, Fantagraphics released Monsters, a 366-page graphic novel.
Sources:
Wikipedia
https://thedorkreview.blogspot.com/2016/03/robs-room-powerhouse-pinups-by-barry.html
https://www.marvel.com/articles/comics/barry-windsor-smith-mr-smith-goes-to-marvel
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