Superb Carol Day Original Comic Art 486 - Boxing - David Wright

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Superb Carol Day Original Comic Art 486 - Boxing - David Wright :
$360.00

Carol Day David Wright had a facility for drawing women that quickly caught the eye of both agents and clients, so the man who had aspired to be a technical illustrator, by the outbreak of World War II became Great Britain\'s foremost pin-up artist. His pictures of beautiful women came to be called â\"lovelies\" and were an immensely popular feature of \"The Sketch\". He later became highly sought after fashion illustrator and then comic artist........................... Wright\'s brilliance at drawing and storytelling art permeates every frame of Carol Day, his comic strip masterpiece featured in The Daily Mail, which he worked on until his passing in 1967. He would pencil just enough to establish the positions of his characters, then go directly into the art with a #2 sable brush. When this was finished, he would begin the process of building the complex and varied layers of ink textures and cross hatching that described the final image in a sort of visual tone feast. Prior to the last 2 years of the strip, he eschewed the American comics method of glued down zipatone in favor of hand creating these rich surface textures.
...................This is a late-story daily from theSeconds Out! story, which tells the tale of the romance between Carol and American boxer Gene Miller (based on British boxer Henry Moore). There are only a handful of actual boxingscenes in the story, including the climactic sequence, so this daily is rare. Herethe art opens with a stunning panel of Carol and roommate Nora Lovell, andmoves right into the ring from there.As with all Carol Days, this art is drawn on illustration board. Both the image and board are in excellent condition. There is a minor impact dent in the lower left corner, a stain in the lower border and word balloons are pasted down in this one (see scans). But other than that the art is in top and handling with the USA is $12 and shipping to Great Britain and Europe is $25.00 for First Class (no tracking) or $45.00 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 included in the shipping cost: 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!