Sequential Art Work


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Sequential Art Work

This BRAND NEW, TOTALLY REVISED SECTION will contain Mark Sparacio's most recent projects for various comic book companies specifically showcasing his interior sequential pencil pages.

Please feel free to contact Mark Sparacio regarding any assignments anytime at:
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And since this is a totally revised section, we will briefly take you back to Mark Sparacio's humble beginnings, with this cover piece that he did while attending the legendary Will Eisner's Sequential Art class at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan.

Will Eisner's Gallery of All New Comics,1982

Obviously, by the cover date on this image, this is certainly not a new piece of work. As most of you are aware, the legendary Will Eisner passed away on January 3rd, 2005. Mark Sparacio was invited to be part of a special tribute issue of the magazine Comic Book Artist commemorating Eisner's life and achievements in the Comics industry. Will Eisner was a wonderful man and will be profoundly missed. Sparacio submitted an article and this image to Comic Book Artist in recognition of his teacher.

This is the cover to Will Eisner's Gallery of All New Comics, #9, 1982, a School of Visual Arts' student publication. Gallery was Will Eisner's students year-end final project and was intended for his students to see what their work would look like in print. It was also to be used as a sample piece for each student to try to obtain work in the comics/advertising industry. It was sold on campus for 75 cents. All of the student's characters on this cover were penciled, inked,and colored by Mark Sparacio with the figure of the Spirit and Ebony inked and washed by Will Eisner, over Sparacio's pencils. Actually, this was the second such collaboration between the legendary Will Eisner and his neophyte student, Mark Sparacio. Sparacio had actually done the pencils for the cover of Will Eisner's Gallery of All New Comics #8, 1981 with each student inking his or her own character and Eisner inking the Spirit. A couple of interesting notes regarding this cover: Sparacio had originally asked his teacher, Will Eisner to sign a copy of Gallery for him back in 1982, but Eisner refused saying he " didn't want to ruin it." But as you probably noticed in the bottom right corner it is signed. Sparacio said, "When I met with Will at the San Diego Comic Con in 2003 to show him my paintings in my attempt to finally break into the comic book industry, I asked him to do what he wouldn't do 21 years ago. And being ever the humble gentleman he said he still didn't want to ''ruin'' it. But he finally did sign it. Can you imagine, he thought his signature was going to "ruin it." The second interesting thing is, you can see in this very early, rudimentary piece, Sparacio was trying to model the figures. He was painting it to be more three dimensional and was not just using flat colors. He used watercolors and yes, some colored pencils. And finally Sparacio's character is ... well, we'll let you guess. Trust us, he's not that proud of it.

Below are two photos from the San Diego Comic Convention, July, 2003. The first photo is of Will Eisner at the end of one of his lectures and the second photo is of Will and four members of "Eisner's Raider's", as Will himself fondly called his students. From left to right are: Mark Sparacio, Ray Billingsly(?)(creator of the excellent daily comic strip "Curtis"), the legendary Will Eisner, Bo Hampton(Sleepy Hollow) and Alex Saviuk(Web of Spiderman, the Phantom). Careful when you click on these pictures. They open up very large. We are trying to correct the problem. Sorry for any inconvenience.

Captain Action #0

Click on the cover to Captain Action #0 to see the fully rendered black and white interior pages, before they were colored.

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