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26-10-2009
Vanity Fair for Peter Poplaski
Peter Poplaski is an artist who has dabbed in
the American comic industry, beginning in 1970 with the Underground Comix
scene, and then mostly as freelancer for Kitchen Sink Press, Marvel, and DC
Comics, while also following a career as a painter, participating in many
exhibitions. He has edited and designed numerous awardwinning newspaper strip
reprint collections including Superman, Batman, Flash Gordon, Alley Oop, Li'l
Abner and SteveCanyon. The covers he drew for the
Batman and Superman Dailies and Sunday series are regarded by many as
definitive. He has worked closely wth such creators as Will Eisner, Milton
Caniff, Harvey Kurtzman, Gil Kane, Alan Moore, and R.Crumb.
His ongoing challenge and obsession is
finishing ZORRO: The Myth and the Image, a definitive study of the masked
heroic archetype.
Peter
Poplaski, originaire de Green bay dans le Wisconsin USA diplômée en art (1991),
expose peintures et dessins créés en Europe et en USA. Il vie également dans le
sud de la France depuis 1994. Son objective est de travailler tout genres: le
paysage, la nature morte et le modèle.
Recent Book:
The SKETCHBOOK ADVENTURES of
PETERPOPLASKI.
Introduction
by R.Crumb. Published by Denis Kitchen Publishing Co., LLC