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Matt Marriott - Original Art Daily #63 - Tony Weare Art For Sale
MATT MARRIOTT - ORIGINAL ART
DAILY #32--TONY WEARE ART. This long standing British comic, quite
probably the best western strip ever created, is a true classic.....Unlike
it's tame 10-gallon hat, "awww, shucks ma'am" American cousins, the Matt Marriott
tales were brutal and realistic. The stories were creative, compelling,
cut close to the bone and served as a perfect backdrop for Weare's art.
...........Original Tony Weare art for Matt Marriott is some of the most difficult art to find in comics. Well, I'm offering some here.........................This is a fine daily from the middle portion of the story"Marshal of Ochre Flat", a tale of a town harassed by a gang of roving bandits led by outlaw Johnny Bishop. Matt Marriott is the new marshal of the town with Powder Horn as his deputy. The situation in Ochre Flat has changed as a competitor, a new saloon/dance hall/casino come to town with a splash. This daily features Mayor McNulty andJohnny Bishopscheming in a late nightrendezvous, all about how Johnny's assault on the town could both could cause both Matt and"ChampagneCharlie's"
those of you unfamiliar with either the strip or Weare's art, here's
what David Lloyd wrote:
"The late Tony Weare
drew Matt Marriott in the London Evening News from 1957 to1977. Written
by Jim Edgar, it was the finest and most atmospheric newspaper strip
about the American Wild West that has ever been produced. Tony, as one of just a very few strip artists here and in the US whose
creative identities owed nothing to the heritage of stylization which
influenced many other newspaper adventure strip creators - he was
primarily an illustrator who just happened to love drawing strips. His
style on Marriott was that of a sketch artist - a portrayer of the
instant. It was naturalistic, raw, and unsophisticated - perfect for
depicting the primitive quality of a realistic-looking Wild West. One
of his major strengths as a strip artist lay in his consistently
creative compositions. If we look through the three-frame strips that
make up the Matt Marriott stories we see no evidence of the repeated
formulas of picture design which some strip artists use. Because of
the sheer weight of material most of these craftsmen have to produce ,
easy options in picture composition are often sought by them and
repeated to ease the burden of emitting a constant stream of new
layouts ; but when we look at Tony's work it's as if we're just
watching people going about their business through a lens that he has
cleverly positioned for us, not viewing figures which are overtly posed
for appropriate effect. The way he rendered his drawings reflected this
'realistic' approach to portraying the action, with almost lazily
handled brush work and pen cross-hatching. He also had a superb
command of light and shade, which promoted the impression that he was
drawing something he could see in front of him, rather than something
he'd built up from his imagination.The only things Tony
ever hated drawing were mechanical objects of any kind, though this
antipathy is very difficult for any viewer to detect. As a lifelong
nature lover he preferred to draw the organic. This passion for
depicting living things above all else, is what gives Tony's work the
energy which shines from almost everything he put his brush to. Like
all the best artists, he sought to draw only what he loved to draw."
...................Lloyd put his money where his mouth was, coaxing Weare out of retirement to work on V for Vendetta. The Weare art for Matt Marriott is powerful and brusque, his brush describing fully formed, complicated images in quick, direct brush strokes
There is white out in word balloons and the right border and along part of a couple panel borders, and there is some very minor staining in spots on border (see scans). Otherwise, both the art and the board are in excellent
condition..........................
Shipping and handling with the USA is $10 and shipping to Great Britain and Europe is $21.00 for First Class (no tracking) or $35.00 for Global Priority (with tracking). My apologies for the high price for Global Priority, but costs have risen significantly over the past months. And I've gotten a lot of good response about packaging. To my mind, artwork should be shipped with respect. So each piece of art is first sealed in a waterproof bag, then secured to $2.25 worth of reinforced cardboard bound by professional packing tape..................Payment is to be made within 7 days of the conclusion of the sale....Good luck offerding!
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Matt Marriott - Original Art Daily #63 - Tony Weare Art: $52
