Ladrönn Draws Elephantmen

Shown above is an alternative cover for Elephantmen: War Toys #1 illustrated by José Ladrönn. What I love about this cover is that it has the charm of a Maurice Sendak illustration, but with the loving attention to detail that you might find in the penmanship of David Levine or Murray Tinkelman. Ladrönn is a comic book penciller and inker who’s from Mexico. Most recently he received an Eisner award (Best Painter/Multimedia Artis) for his work with writer and publisher Richard Starkings on Hip Flask: Mystery City, one of a series of Hip Flask one-shots published by Active Images.

Elephantmen: War Toys #1 is the first in a special three-issue mini-series published by Image and will be hitting the comic book stores in August.