HYPERBOREA / Buscema

**Posted by Chainsaw** 4/25/2014 8:48 pm

Three cheers - who doesn't like this guy? Pure awesome. Some defining sword and sorcery imagery for me.

**Posted by Ghul** 4/25/2014 9:25 pm

When inked by Alcala, there was no beating the team of Thomas, Buscema, and Alcala.

**Posted by Chainsaw** 4/26/2014 10:37 am

That is pretty sweet.

**Posted by Crisippo** 4/26/2014 4:40 pm

Very sweet indeed! You just convinced me to find my Savage Sword of Conan books and do some bedside reading tonight.

**Posted by mavfire** 7/31/2019 11:40 pm

A few of my favorite Buscema/Alcala images... Just love the inkwork in the stones, and the brooding feel to it. Alcala's use of blacks and hashing is so good.... definitely inspirational. I have seen scans of the original drawings for these and the mastery of Buscema shows through in them. Definitely a masterful duo!

**Posted by gizmomathboy** 8/01/2019 8:04 am

mavfire wrote:
A few of my favorite Buscema/Alcala images... Just love the inkwork in the stones, and the brooding feel to it. Alcala's use of blacks and hashing is so good.... definitely inspirational. I have seen scans of the original drawings for these and the mastery of Buscema shows through in them. Definitely a masterful duo!

Yeah, the hashing and inkwork make it look like an woodcutting from a really old text.

I really dig this kind of B&W art.

Really takes me back to those Savage Sword of Conan issues from the 1980s.