Satan's Tears: The Art of Alex Nino - Signed & Numbered

Product Code: 68185
Satan's Tears: The Art of Alex Nino - Signed & Numbered
Satan's Tears: The Art of Alex Nino - Signed & Numbered

Satan's Tears: The Art of Alex Nino - Signed & Numbered

Product Code: 68185
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Alex Nino is one of the most unique and distinctive artists to work in comics. This massive 1977 art book was the first book devoted to this Filipino comic artist--just five years after he entered the American comic book market!

It was only produced in this deluxe signed & numbered edition of 1000 copies, and it sold out immediately, even at the hefty price of $60 in 1977. (I only ever saw one copy for sale during its original release--in a comic book store in San Francisco--and I bought it on the spot!)

Features of this book:

30 color plates and over 250 black & white illustrations, most of which are full page plates.
Four fold-outs measuring 20 x 13 inches.
Two Portfolios set in Alex's bizarre fantasy world of Gruaga, The Fifth Corner of the World.
A biography of the artist by Orvy Jundis.

Chapters

Introduction
Philippine Comic Work (including 32 covers and 24 splash pages and centerspreads)
Portfolio I: Gruagan Adventure
Portfolio II: The Legend of Na
Color Illustrations & Paintings
Black & White Illustrations
Philippine Horror Fantasies
Sketch Book Drawings

Most of the images in this book are previously unpublished. Excellent reproduction throughout, almost entirely from the original art.

This was the first book published by Chris Zavisa whose Christopher Enterprises published numerous fantasy posters and portfolios by Alex Nino, Berni Wrightson, Michael Kaluta, Stephen Hickman, and others. Land of Enchantment would later publish Berni Wrightson: A Look Back and Cycle of the Werewolf by Stephen King and Wrightson.

The thin dustjacket produced for this book is about an eighth of an inch taller than the book itself, consequently nearly every copy I've encountered has edge wear to the dustjacket to various degrees.

This book came from the Southern California library of Mike Mignola!

Nino, Alex
Zavisa, Christopher

Condition & Attributes

Near Fine in Near Fine dustjacket (mild bump to upper corners, otherwise very sound, mild wear to the top edge of the dustjacket)

Publishing Information

Detroit
Land of Enchantment
1977
1st

Physical Description

13.5 inches
10.5 inches
302 pages
30 color plates and over 250 black & white illustrations
hardcover
cloth
English

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