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The artist simply known as Jock has been producing some of the most dynamic covers to grace the shelves of comics shops for the past 15 years. His work hits your eyes like a punch in the gut, with it’s stark composition and gritty elements. This week we’re treated to another Jock classic with his variant cover for the highly anticipated new Jason Aaron comic, The Goddamned. Speaking of Jason Aaron, Jock was responsible for many of the iconic covers of Aaron’s breakout hit, Scalped(DC/Vertigo, 2007-13).
Jock is a British artist who began his comics career working on Judge Dredd for the long-running sci-fi anthology, 2000 AD. He’d go on to co-create a new character featured in Judge Dredd Megazine, Lenny Zero, with writer Andy Diggle. In 2003, Jock and Diggle would start on the critically acclaimed DC/Vertigo reboot of the classic war comic characters, The Losers. The series ran until 2006, and was adapted into a live-action film in 2010. Jock’s talent would not go unnoticed by movie studios, as he’s contributed a large number of concept art pieces and poster art for high-profile films such as Hancock, Man of Steel, Hannah, Ex Machina, and Tron.
Today, Jock is working on the new horror series, Wytches, for Image Comics with popular Batman scribe Scott Snyder. Take it from me, somebody who’s not easily frightened, this is some of the scariest, darkest storytelling you’ll find in comics or any other medium for that matter! Image will be publishing a special over-sized, limited edition of Wytches #1 on December 30th; it features Jock’s line-work in all of it’s creepy glory, sans grey tones, on 11×17 sized pages. If that’s too much for you to handle, you can always try the first issue(regular size) out for a buck with the “Image Firsts” edition.
For more comics & film related artwork by Jock, go check out his very slick looking website here!
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