Fay Dalton is my favourite illustrator, bar none. Her work for Dynamite in this past year has been nothing short of outstanding, and I hope she will be among the roster of artists providing covers for Dynamite's coming
DEJAH THORIS book. Absolutely talented and
looking like someone who could perfectly be the subject of one of her own sensuous covers, Ms. Dalton has me salivating over each and every of her comic book and literary illustration work. In fact, she is that rare artist who can make me buy anything for the simple gorgeousness of her illustrations, with its combination of modern and traditional painting techniques, that contaminates the subject matter of each cover proper. Her work is infused with a painterly beauty that makes it truly timeless, and the unaware reader unexpectedly confronted with one of her covers surely strains his wits as to place it properly in a given epoch. It has that magic attribute that makes us doubt that it is in fact something new: she could illustrate today's news and make us doubt if we hadn't seen such an illustration in the portfolio of past giants like Norman Rockwell or Norman Saunders. She could have painted for the great pulps of yore, as well as she paints for today's comic books. That's how good she is. And I referring to her as
painting, instead of
illustrating, is no typo: for that's what she truly does. She is a great painter, and I hope someday to have a book collecting her covers next to my volumes on Edward Hopper or Andrew Wyeth.
Ms. Dalton's most recent work for Dynamite comprises not only the currently ongoing
VAMPIRELLA titles, but also variant covers for each and every one of the recently concluded run of
RED SONJA AND VAMPIRELLA MEET BETTY AND VERONICA. Six absolutely lovely covers that bring to life four classic comic book characters, infusing them with stunning girl-next-door immediacy. So please, enjoy these wonderful covers, and don't forget to visit
Ms. Dalton's site, where you can find more out-of-this-world magnificent covers (I never before did, and probably won't do it again, endorsing in this blog commercial sites, but this is, to my view, a unique artist, fully deserving any amount of praise).
Covers by: Fay Dalton
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