EXTRACTS: Illustrators issue 16 © 2016 The Book Palace (96 PAGES in Full edition)

2 Neal Adams In 1967 a young artist arrived at the New York offices of DC comics. The world of comics would never be quite the same again as Peter Stone reveals in this compelling retrospective of a truly great and visionary talent NEAL ADAMS DRAWS A PAGE from his most recent project atop a light box angled to simulate a drawing board. He wears a blue, button-down dress shirt and a loose tie with cartoon characters on it. It’s a holdover from earlier days when men wore ties to work every day. He looks like, if he wasn’t a world-famous artist, he could be a New York cop or fireman, or perhaps even a dockworker. One might expect the same hands that lift massive barbells at the gym would hold his No. 2 pencil with a powerful grip, but quite the opposite. A child could slide the pencil from his fingers, a skill he learned as a young artist. Watching closely, you can see that he draws from his shoulder, not his forearm or wrist. He works in the conference room of his New York Midtown business named Continuity , a mysterious word when it was first used in the seventies but commonplace Neal Adams redefined the art of the superhero, bringing a photographic intensity to the genre. His work has remained as visceral and contemporary as it was when he first entered the field in the late 1960s, as these examples of Spiderman, Conan and Daredevil demonstrate. Spiderm n © Marvel Entertainment, LLC Daredevil © Marvel Entertainment, LLC Conan © Dark Horse Comics Inc.§§