I have this amazingly talented friend who can draw/paint in almost any style imaginable (Impressionism, Surrealism, Photorealism, PopArt, …the list is extremely long). He has designed and illustrated his own comic books, worked as a portrait artist and a graphic designer—the guy is freakishly gifted! Every time we get together he loans me a comic or a graphic novel he wants me to experience. Because of him I have come to know and appreciate artists like Theo Ellsworth and Michael Allred and Charles Burns. Now I can add Duncan Fegredo to that list.

Fegredo’s artwork is fantastic. If this is the way Hellboy has always been presented then it is no surprise why this character is so popular.

But… Every time I get more than a few pages into a superhero story I start to grow disinterested. I’ve just never really been a fan of the genre. Yes people I know and care about are HUGE fans—I get that (sorta). I apparently just don’t have the gene that makes one drool over a Batman comic or a Spider-Man movie. I have tried to care, really I have; I’ve put in the time, I’ve made the effort; when it comes to superheroes—even dark ones like Hellboy and Deadpool—I am awash in a sea of apathy.

Give me a superhero that can’t fly or punch through brick walls (too cliché!). And how about a male character without six pack abs—or a female one with small breasts?

Personally, my “superpower” is that I work every day with fundamentalist anti-vaxers who think the earth is only six thousand years old and I haven’t strangled any of them (yet), not a single one. Now THAT is my idea of a superpower!
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If you have a few moments, check out my friend’s art gallery and see for yourself what an amazingly talented (and kinda crazy) individual he is:

https://kevinstarkart.com/