Todd McFarlane was a brash, young Canadian artist who’d broken into comics in the early 1980s before landing his first regular gig drawing DC’s Infinity Inc. in 1985. McFarlane’s unique visual style was evident, even on his earliest jobs. He hacked a boring rectangular page into experimental panel layouts and had a way of rendering capes in such a dramatic, billowing way that it made the lamest hero look plain cool. He was clearly a star on the rise.
