when I finished this page of Health Goth it gave me this feeling like... ok, I'm starting to capture something of the comics that influenced me as a teenager--especially, stuff published by Vertigo in the 80s-00s, and some other stuff around that time that I found random individual issues of (some Milestone stuff made a big impression on me for example). but... trying to describe this to my partners I sort of stumbled a bit, cause I couldn't really find anything in, say, Sandman for example that quite looked like this, it's a bit like the colors Higgins uses in The Killing Joke or Gibbons uses in Watchmen but... no, not quite.
I realized the other night that what I was picturing wasn't so much the pages inside Vertigo comics.
it was this era of comic book covers. these surreal, bold, painterly, instantly eye catching comic book covers.
idk that my small colored pencil comics are quite served sitting next to these lol but I can't help but shout out this influence. I just think this was such a neat aesthetic moment in comics and yeah some of that is probably nostalgia talking but I still find myself drawn to how weird and willing to get a little more abstract these works were. I mean wow Invisibles covers could get completely batshit, and that's a big part of what got me hooked on Grant Morrison's work! in an era of Artstation Aesthetic it feels like kind of a breath of fresh air and it feels like something for me to aspire to in my own practice.
