Tim Sale | Spiderman

Commentary from Tim Sale: Black and White:

"Through Spider-man, Stan Lee rethought the super-hero as a put-upon adolescent, and that figure is the quintessential Marvel hero. Soap opera characters in costumes."

Spider-man was the first comic I started reading, when we crossed the country when I was six. We went from Massachusetts to Seattle. My father used to buy me comic books to keep me amused in the back of the car. I learned how to read from comic books. The first word I could read was 'Boom!'

"The early Romita run in Amazing Spider-Man was, and is, a touchstone in comics for me. I don't recall being aware of anything romantic or soapy before that, and was utterly sucked into it. The beauty in the way he draws, the elegance; his action sequences are very well done, but his real power is the romance. And I wanted to try that, so it was almost inevitable that it's what we would do in Spider-Man: Blue."

Sketch of Spider-man: Blue #1 cover.	Sketch of Spider-man: Blue #2 cover.	Sketch from Spider-man: Blue #1.		I loved the way Romita drew snow in Spider-Man #48, and I've always drawn snow that way whenever I've drawn it. It's now my shorthand way of drawing snow in comics.
Pencils for Spider-man: Blue #4, Gwen Stacy dancing, influenced heavily by the great John Romita.	Sketch for a fan in Essen, Germany, 2002	Sketch of Mary Jane Watson for fan in Lille, France, 2002.	Sketch for a fan in France.	Pencils for a commission on spec...
...inspired by a Jim Steranko drawing of Spidey from the 1970s.	Variations on a theme; city in the background or a more design oriented drawing.	As is usually the case, I like the design oriented drawing opposite best.	Sketch of Gwen Stacy for a fan

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