American Century #21, February 2003
RIP Jim Silke, the multi-talented artist / art director/ writer who died last week at the age of 93. A great century (ok, nearly) indeed.
One of my favorite facts from Silke’s career is that he essentially started his “new” career as a comic book artist / writer in his early 60s.
Repeat: He started in his early 60s.
I acquired this wonderful painted cover late last year, part of a series he created for Vertigo’s American Century title.
A retro classic.
And readers of this blog, especially any who visited me at the late Liberty Station IDW Publishing offices, know I definitely have a thing for old newsstands. (FYI, that’s Action Comics #183 from 1953, bottom right.)
