Big John Buscema Show

My wife Stephanie, me, and her family will be flying over for the exhibit. It would be great to get the word out about this as much as possible. This is the first expansive gallery showing of John's work in a in recent memory. Private collections spanning the artist's entire career will be on display publicly for what very well maybe the first time.  

I will be documenting as much as possible and posting to Flickr as soon as well get back but please help spread the word, and get as much interested generated as possible. Thanks so much.

Here is the brief from the gallery:

John Buscema (New York, 1927-2002) was attracted to the comics as a child, and copying the cartoons of Alex Raymond, Hal Foster, Burne Hogarth and Elzie Segar. He led his first steps into commercial illustration because of its obvious ability for drawing realistic human figure after being influenced by the classics (the Europeans Rubens, Monet, Renoir, Raphael, and the Yankees Al Dorne, Dean Cornwell, Norman Rockwell and Robert Fawcett).

Between 1970 and 1990 Buscema was a model (in its graphical style, along with John Romita) between the artists of the Marvel editorial and became the perfect example of a prolific author and tireless, coming to draw 60 pages a month and reaching publish approximately 60 titles than Marvel (highlighting their work in The Avengers). 

 City: Palma de Mallorca
 Center: Casal Solleric
 Address: Passeig del Born, 27
 Dates: September 17 to November 8 

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Next Thursday 17, at eight o'clock, was inaugurated in the cultural heart of Palma Casal Solleric an exhibition devoted to John Buscema, artist who is already one of the great legends of American comics. The exhibition, to be called 'Big John Buscema: Cartoons dibuixos i', will have 120 original pages of the author (in addition to plates that comic book covers also include series like 'The Avengers' and 'Fantastic 4' ), 60 sketches and various additional artwork.

The inauguration was attended by the widow of the artist as well as part of his family. The organizers of the exhibition are: Juan Roig y Florentino Fernandez, who recently spent another to Mordillo. As interest added, attendees can purchase the wonderful exhibition catalog, consisting of 328 pages in full color and large format. A great opportunity to (re) discover the talent of this author entered on merit at the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame.

John Buscema died in 2002 at the age of 74, leaving behind a very long career devoted to comics that began in 1948, when he started working for Timely Comics, under the direction of Stan Lee. Since then, his life would be linked to what would be the future Marvel, and it was with the characters in this editorial with which achieve fame and admiration of readers. Spiderman, Captain America, Daredevil, Thor ... They went through their pencils. In his later years, did some graphic novels featuring Conan ( "Conan the Barbarian ') and Punisher (' A man named Frank '), and in 2000 made his first work for DC, namely a short history of Batman.

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Comments

[Joe Jusko]

I wish I had the time to head over for this. John was and is my idol and is the reason I wanted to pursue comics as a career. I hope the show goes well and is such a success as to warrant a similar production stateside as he so deserves!