A Tour Through the Art Gallery, Part 5: Patrick Gleason

Over the years, I've accumulated a few pieces of original comic book-related art. Nothing compared to the collections of some of my friends, admittedly, but there's some interesting stuff in there nonetheless. So, in my constant (and constantly failing) effort to keep this blog updated on a semi-regular basis, I thought I'd share some of them with you. Join me, won't you?

One of my earlier comic book assignments was writing a short run of AQUAMAN back in 2004. After working with him for two issues of my last book, H.E.R.O. (more on that series in an upcoming post), I was lucky enough to be teamed up with artist extraordinaire Pat Gleason, who (along with the fine inking skills of Christian Alamy) brought the shattered city of Sub Diego to life. Here, for example, is a striking example from our first issue, AQUAMAN #15, when our hero leaves the waters (where the city of San Diego was plunged) to tell the surface people that everyone's dead. (Turns out he's wrong, by the way.) Trust me, this bargain-basement scan (I literally took the photo in my basement) doesn't do Pat's artwork justice....

Here's the good news, by the way: You can own this actual page (well, a full color, comic-book sized reproduction of it) this week, because DC is finally, after all these years, collecting the AQUAMAN run Pat and I did way back when. Issues 15-22 are all included, along with a few pages of Pat's original pencils and the beautiful Alan Davis covers that graced the original run.
Interested? Don't worry -- I'll be talking more about it in the blog this week, and the next entry will include another Pat Gleason AQUAMAN page from a bit later in the run.