This limited edition edition lithograph is part one of the Puur-fect Memories suite by renowned Web of Spiderman Artist, Charles Vess
See Part 1 here Charles Vess (born 1951) is an American fantasy artist and comic-book illustrator who has specialized in the illustration of myths and fairy tales. He has won several awards.
From 1980-82 Charles Vess worked as an Art Instructor at the Parsons School of Design in New York City. Also during that period his work appeared in one of the first major museum exhibitions of science fiction and fantasy art, held at the New Britain Museum of American Art in 1980.
By the late eighties Vess had found a niche in the world of fantasy comic art with publications such as The Raven Banner: A Tale of Asgard written by Alan Zelenetz and published by Marvel Comics in 1985, The Book of Night, published by Dark Horse Comics in 1987, and The Warriors Three Saga, Marvel Fanfare #34-37,1987-88. His success was also mainstream though, as evidenced by his illustration of Spider-Man: Spirits of the Earth (a 1990 graphic novel from Marvel) and a ten issue run (#129-139) as illustrator of The Swamp Thing by DC Comics in 1993.
In 1989 Charles Vess began one of his best-known collaborations to date, with writer Neil Gaiman. He illustrated “The Land of Summer's Twilight”, one of the four episodes in the original The Books of Magic mini-series. Vess also worked on three issues of Gaiman’s critically acclaimed Sandman series. Sandman #19 (“A Midsummer Night’s Dream”) is a meta-fictional adaptation of Shakespeare's play. In 1991, that issue won the World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story, the first and only comic book to hold the honor, as award organizers subsequently amended the rules to specifically exclude comics. Vess contributed eight drawings for a prose-based inset that appeared in Sandman #62 (“The Kindly Ones: 6”) and illustrated the final issue of the series, Sandman #75 (“The Tempest”).
In 1991 he illustrated the official comic-book adaptation of Steven Spielberg’s Hook.
Awards
* The Ink Pot Award: For excellence in comic art, 1990.
* World Fantasy Award: Best short story, 1991.
* Comic Creators' Guild: 1993 Best Cover (Dark Horse Presents #75).
* Silver Award (Comics Industry) 1995, Spectrum Annual of Imaginative Art.
* Will Eisner Comics Industry Award: Best Penciler/Inker 1996 for The Book of Ballads and Sagas and Sandman #75.
* World Fantasy Award: Best Artist, 1999.
Vess' cover of Web of Spiderman #1
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