Barry Windsor-Smith – författare

WOLVERINE: WEAPON X is the character-defining origin of the man known only as Logan. Written, illustrated and coloured by auteur creator and master storyteller Barry Windsor-Smith, it is undeniably one of the greatest Wolverine stories ever told. After being taken hostage by an experimental Canadian military science outfit, Logan is transformed into Weapon X, an unstoppable killing machine with an indestructible Adamantium skeleton and razor-sharp claws. But Weapon X cannot be contained by his captors - and trapped in their lab with the monster they have made, they will face his feral wrath! Collecting: MARVEL COMICS PRESENTS (1988) #72-84, UNCANNY X-MEN (1981) #205 AND WOLVERINE (1988) #166

From the moment Marvel brought him to the U.S. in 1969, Windsor-Smith was a creative force to be reckoned with. A passionate devotee of Jack Kirby, Windsor-Smith's earliest drawing at Marvel reflected that influence, but he quickly developed his own unique, eye-opening style, combining intricately detailed realism with the dreamlike lushness of art nouveau and late-1960s psychedelia. This volume focuses on the earliest of his work, including memorable storylines on The Avengers, Iron Man, Doctor Strange, and individual stories for Chamber of Darkness, Tower of Shadows, and Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. All new benchmarks of comics art, culminating in what may be the highlight of this period: Windsor-Smith's collaboration with writer Gerry Conway on an epic tale of civil war in Ka-Zar's Savage Land. Future volumes will trace Windsor-Smith's career through such milestones as Machine Man and Weapon X.

35 YEARS IN THE MAKING: THE MOST ANTICIPATED GRAPHIC NOVEL IN RECENT HISTORY *A GUARDIAN 'BOOKS OF 2021' PICK*The year is 1964. Bailey doesn't realize he is about to fulfil his tragic destiny when he walks into a US Army recruitment office. Secretive, damaged, innocent, trying to forget a past and looking for a future, Bobby is the perfect candidate for a secret US government experiment, an unholy continuation of a genetics program that was discovered in Nazi Germany nearly 20 years earlier in the waning days of World War II. Bailey's only ally and protector, Sergeant McFarland, intervenes, which sets off a chain of cascading events that spin out of everyone's control. As the monsters of the title multiply, becoming real and metaphorical, the story reaches a crescendo of moral reckoning.A 360-page tour de force of visual storytelling, Monsters' narrative canvas is copious: part familial drama, part thriller, part metaphysical journey, it is an intimate portrait of individuals struggling to reclaim their lives and an epic political odyssey that plays across two generations of American history.Monsters is rendered in Barry Windsor-Smith's impeccable pen-and-ink technique, the visual storytelling, with its sensitivity to gesture and composition, the most sophisticated of the artist's career. There are passages of heartbreaking tenderness, of excruciating pain, of redemption and sacrifice, and devastating violence. Monsters is surely one of the most intense graphic novels ever drawn.

Berättelsen om hur Wolverine fick sitt adamantiumskelett – tecknad och skriven av den legendariske serieskaparen Barry Windsor-Smith! WOLVERINE är många saker för olika personer, men för en viss grupp var han bara ett VAPEN. Och vapen dödar... vilket de snart skulle förstå. Upptäck det själv i ursprungsberättelsen om allas favoritmutant!

Collects Incredible Hulk (1962) #1; Avengers (1963) #1, 15-16; X-Men (1963) #4-5; Sgt. Fury (1963) #8; Fantastic Four Annual (1963) #2-3; Patsy Walker (1945) #119; Daredevil (1964) #7, 47; Captain America (1968) #109; Thor (1966) #179-181; Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #96-98; Marvel Premiere (1972) #3; Savage She-Hulk (1980) #1; Silver Surfer (1988) #1-2; material from Captain America Comics (1941) #3, 16; Mystic Comics (1940) #6; Suspense (1949) #29; Black Knight (1955) #1; Millie the Model (1945) #100; Life With Millie (1960) #10; Amazing Adult Fantasy (1961) #9, 11; Amazing Fantasy (1962) #15; Tales to Astonish (1959) #35; Fantastic Four (1961) #11; Tales of Suspense (1959) #39; Rawhide Kid (1955) #33; Strange Tales (1951) #135; Thor (1966) #146-152; Silver Surfer (1968) #3, 5; Our Love Story (1969) #5; Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #365; Spectacular Spider-Man Super Special (1995) #1; Amazing Spider-Man (1999) #634-645; Marvel 75th Anniversary Celebration (2014) #1; Amazing Spider-Man newspaper strip. Face Front, True Believers, and treasure this celebration of the incredible career of Stan Lee! More than 70 years of stories featuring dozens of Lee?s beloved co-creations including Spider-Man, Iron Man, the Hulk, the Avengers, Daredevil and Nick Fury all in his signature, senses-shattering style! These astonishing tales of suspense, horror, fantasy, romance, comedy, cowboys, super heroics and more prove beyond doubt that Stan is ?The Man!?

WOLVERINE: WEAPON X is the character-defining origin of the man known only as Logan. Written and illustrated by auteur creator and master storyteller Barry Windsor-Smith, it is undeniably one of the greatest Wolverine stories ever told. After being taken hostage by an experimental Canadian military-science outfit, Logan is transformed into Weapon X, an unstoppable killing machine with an indestructible adamantium skeleton and razor-sharp claws. But Weapon X cannot be contained by his captors - and trapped in their lab with the monster they have made, they will face his feral wrath! It's a psychedelic horror story in the mold of Frankenstein, restored from original art and print sources for this stunning deluxe edition! Collecting material from MARVEL COMICS PRESENTS (1988) #72-84, plus UNCANNY X-MEN (1981) #205 and material from WOLVERINE (1988) #166.

35 YEARS IN THE MAKING: THE MOST ANTICIPATED GRAPHIC NOVEL IN RECENT HISTORY *A GUARDIAN 'BOOKS OF 2021' PICK*The year is 1964. Bailey doesn't realize he is about to fulfil his tragic destiny when he walks into a US Army recruitment office. Secretive, damaged, innocent, trying to forget a past and looking for a future, Bobby is the perfect candidate for a secret US government experiment, an unholy continuation of a genetics program that was discovered in Nazi Germany nearly 20 years earlier in the waning days of World War II. Bailey's only ally and protector, Sergeant McFarland, intervenes, which sets off a chain of cascading events that spin out of everyone's control. As the monsters of the title multiply, becoming real and metaphorical, the story reaches a crescendo of moral reckoning.A 360-page tour de force of visual storytelling, Monsters' narrative canvas is copious: part familial drama, part thriller, part metaphysical journey, it is an intimate portrait of individuals struggling to reclaim their lives and an epic political odyssey that plays across two generations of American history.Monsters is rendered in Barry Windsor-Smith's impeccable pen-and-ink technique, the visual storytelling, with its sensitivity to gesture and composition, the most sophisticated of the artist's career. There are passages of heartbreaking tenderness, of excruciating pain, of redemption and sacrifice, and devastating violence. Monsters is surely one of the most intense graphic novels ever drawn.

The first in a series of deluxe reprint collections featuring classic Marvel storylines presented in black and white, emphasizing the artistry of each legendary creator. Experience Barry Windsor-Smith’s revolutionary Weapon X storyline in this oversized black-and-white edition, which showcases every detail of his acclaimed Wolverine artwork in stark, stunning line work that reveals the raw power of his masterful art.Originally serialized across Marvel Comics Presents #72–#84, Weapon X is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most revelatory Wolverine stories ever told. Windsor-Smith’s grim narrative explores the brutal origins of Logan’s transformation from troubled man into living weapon.This comprehensive edition includes the entire Weapon X storyline (Marvel Comics Presents #72–#84) and additional work by Windsor-Smith from the Bronze era (The Uncanny X-Men #205, #214), along with archival materials, a new essay from comics historians Chris Ryall and John Lind, and scans of original artwork from Marvel’s archives. Every line, every detail of this modern masterpiece of sequential art!

DIE WOLVERINE-STORY, DIE DEN FILM INSPIRIERTE! Für einige ist Wolverine ein Teamgefährte oder auch ein Freund. Doch für eine berüchtigte Enklave war er nur eine Waffe, und Waffen töten Menschen. Das mussten sie bereits am eigenen Leib erfahren. Findet heraus, wie viel "X" in diesem Prequel zu jüngsten Enthüllungen über Logan steckt.

Der "Faust" des Comic-Altmeisters Barry Windsor-Smith 35 Jahre der Entstehung. Die wohl am meisten erwartete Graphic Novel unserer Zeit: MONSTER. Eine 360-seitige Tour de Force des visuellen Erzählens. Teils Familiendrama, teils Thriller, teils metaphysische Reise – ein intimes Porträt von Individuen, die darum kämpfen, ihr Leben zurückzuerobern. Eine gewaltige politische Odyssee, die sich über zwei Generationen amerikanischer Geschichte erstreckt. Wir schreiben das Jahr 1964. Bailey ahnt nicht, dass er gerade im Begriff ist, sein tragisches Schicksal zu besiegeln, als er ein Rekrutierungsbüro der US-Armee betritt. Verschlossen, beschädigt, unschuldig – auf der Suche nach einer Vergangenheit und Zukunft zugleich. Kurzum: Bobby ist der perfekte Kandidat für ein geheimes Experiment der US-Regierung ... die entsetzliche, gottlose Fortsetzung eines Programms für Genetik, das fast 20 Jahre zuvor in den letzten Tagen des Zweiten Weltkriegs in Nazi-Deutschland seinen Anfang fand. Sergeant McFarland, Baileys einziger Verbündeter und Beschützer, greift ein, als eine Kette von Ereignissen in Gang gesetzt wird, die sich der Kontrolle aller Beteiligten entreißt. Während sich die Monster vermehren – ob real oder metaphorisch – münzt diese Geschichte in einem Crescendo der moralischen Abrechnung. Monsters trägt Barry Windsor-Smiths (CONAN DER BARBAR, RED SONJA) Handschrift tadelloser Feder- und Tuschetechnik. Die visuelle Erzählung ist mit ihrer Sensibilität für Gestik und Komposition das wohl anspruchsvollste Werk in der Karriere des Windsor-Smiths. Wir stoßen auf Passagen von herzzerreißender Zärtlichkeit, von unerträglichem Schmerz ... von Erlösung und Aufopferung ... von verheerender Gewalt – eine der wohl intensivsten Graphic Novels, die jemals gezeichnet wurden.

In 1969, with its revolutionary superhero line well established, Marvel took a chance on the kind of supernatural, EC-style anthology series that had been banned since the formation of the Comics Code in the 1950s. Tower of Shadows featured a staggering array of artists and writers, including Neal Adams, Jim Steranko, Barry Windsor-Smith, John Buscema, Gene Colan, Wally Wood, Stan Lee, Roy Thomas, John Romita, Johnny Craig, Marie Severin, Gerry Conway, and Bernie Wrightson, to name a few. Freed from the conventions of the superhero adventure, these creators brought their storytelling skills to a more quietly sinister genre, producing atmospheric gems of twisted suspense and sardonic horror. Not only do these nine issues feature Marvel's best creators working at their peak, but Tower of Shadows is one of the lost, never-collected Marvels. In the first of a new series of Lost Marvels, Fantagraphics and Marvel join forces to introduce these pages to a new generation of readers and restore this series to its rightful place in comics history. This gorgeous volume brings every Tower of Shadows story and cover to life in vivid color and features background and analysis by comics journalist Michael Dean.