The Beauty of the Brush of Alfredo Alcala

Alfredo Alcala's work never fails to give me pause -- pause to look around an entire page or panel, pause to appreciate. One of the masters! As I said on Monday, I am no authority on inkers or their craft. But I can appreciate effort, and Alcala always included details - no short cuts, ever. In each of the examples presented below we are blessed by Alcala as penciler and inker. I'm sure many of us have thrilled to his embellishment of John Buscema's pencils in Savage Sword of Conan; here we get the artist alone, and it's beautiful work.

Images, as labeled, courtesy of Heritage Auctions.