Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Ken Landgraf (born 1950) is an American comic book artist and commercial illustrator. Having worked for both Marvel Comics and DC Comics, the major publishers of the superhero genre of comic books, Ken pioneered independent comic book publishing in the 1970s and 80s. Collectors of rare “underground” comic book art know Landgraf best for iconoclastic masterworks like the series Rock Comics, Starfighters, and New York City Outlaws. His powerfully rendered heroes, often distortedly muscular and set in heavily shadowed lighting, represent primal themes of struggle, dominance, brutality, and survival. The stark themes and images of Landgraf’s oeuvre parallel characteristics of punk rock and heavy metal music. Like these musical forms, Landgraf’s serious comic book art contains an implicit critique of effete society while offering explicitly primal fantasies. Landgraf’s extensive credits as a freelance commercial illustrator demonstrate the artist as mercenary creating images for dizzyingly various interests.. }
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- Ken_Landgraf abstract "Ken Landgraf (born 1950) is an American comic book artist and commercial illustrator. Having worked for both Marvel Comics and DC Comics, the major publishers of the superhero genre of comic books, Ken pioneered independent comic book publishing in the 1970s and 80s. Collectors of rare “underground” comic book art know Landgraf best for iconoclastic masterworks like the series Rock Comics, Starfighters, and New York City Outlaws. His powerfully rendered heroes, often distortedly muscular and set in heavily shadowed lighting, represent primal themes of struggle, dominance, brutality, and survival. The stark themes and images of Landgraf’s oeuvre parallel characteristics of punk rock and heavy metal music. Like these musical forms, Landgraf’s serious comic book art contains an implicit critique of effete society while offering explicitly primal fantasies. Landgraf’s extensive credits as a freelance commercial illustrator demonstrate the artist as mercenary creating images for dizzyingly various interests.".