finally at Fantagraphics the second band Krigstein by Greg Sadowski. PUH! Whether the wait was worth it? From November, we know more! If Fantagraphics meanwhile times a video or a gallery on Flickr I try to post this here also to accommodate the update. (The part can be one of the most important books of recent years, so be sure to look at times)
B. Krigstein: A Life in Art from Comics to Canvas (1955-1990) (Vol 2)
B. Krigstein Volume 2 begins with the artist's last group of comics, short stories for 29 Atlas editor Stan Lee that Krigstein used to explore the innate flexibility of the comics Form. "I was really writing messages and sending them to sea in a bottle, there. Those stories were my attempt at carrying out an object lesson of how comic stories could be broken down." Six of his best Atlas stories have been lovingly recolored for this edition by veteran colorist Marie Severin, and a checklist of Krigstein's complete comic-book work is provided.
The artist's five stormy years in commercial illustration are thoroughly examined, from his early advertising art, LP covers for Columbia Records, book interiors and jackets (notably The Manchurian Candidate and the novels of Joyce Cary), to his final work for American Heritage, Boy's Life, The New York Times, and The Saturday Evening Post.
Disillusioned with illustration, Krigstein attempted to return to comics by proposing several full-length adaptations of classic works of literature, including The Red Badge of Courage, Treasure Island, and War and Peace. The rejection of these avant-garde attempts at a graphic novel convinced him to leave the commercial field for good; in 1964 he joined the faculty of New York City's High School of Art & Design.
Finally settled into a secure vocation, he opened a Manhattan studio and set about creating a prodigious amount of oils, watercolors, pastels, and drawings until shortly before his death in January 1990. Color and black-and-white illustrations throughout (Fantagraphics)
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