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Recent Posts: Joe Kubert Tor 2008 The first issue of Kubert's revived primitive hero High Cost of Four Color Fun Reaction to Tom Spurgeon's essay on the state of comic books Madame Sans-Gene Illustration and review of the 1894 play starring actress Gabirlle Rejane Spirit #15 Art by Paul Smith. DC Comics Flipbutt the Art Critic From July 7, 1894 issue of PUNCH Magazine Map The Ozark Plateau and Lake System Nick Cardy Oversize Batman Page Smithsonian Museum of American Art in the old Patent Building in Washington DC Ulysses Grant and his Generals, large "meeting" portrait - - - - - - - - ONLINE COMICS 
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The Spirit #15
The Spirit's New Face
[Note: An earlier version of this page contained a major goof - - it identified this issue as The Spirit #13. Much apologies for the confusion.] With the departure of comic book fandom favorite Darwyn Cooke and crew, the team of Aragones and Paul Smith seems like a good followup. Smith has a good style to match up with Spirit's fairly light-hearted material, and his drawing and inking is very pretty stuff indeed. He gets a little carried away with the comic aspects of some of the caricature work toward the back end of this story (called "The Diamond Exchange"), but on the whole it is a very nice lateral move from Darwyn Cooke's art. Arogones' story is fine (this tale is also credited to Mark Evanier), but it has a large number of loose ends that glare out from the tale, and though it's not nearly as neat and tidy as a Darwyn Cooke tale (nor does it possess any of the depth that a Cooke story would shoot for inbetween the cartoon mayhem) it is nonetheless completely in the vien of a standard Spirit tale, and well within the range of goofiness many an Eisner Spirit tale possessed. It altogether is a very nice package, and the DC Comics revived Spirit series remains one of the best books coming out as a regular pamphlet comic book. Click the images below to see enlarged Paul Smith artwork from DC Comics' The Spirit #13 (images will enlarge to 1000 pixels wide)
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