About the illustration

I don’t care what anybody says, drawing exploding rocks and debris takes forever… This is another example of some fine work by Lee Elias. As you can see it’s super detailed in how he took great pains to show the shattered helmets and the fabric being torn away from their space suits. This is some phenomenal work plain and simple.

On the production side I took the training wheels off the studio brush and did as much of it as could with zero stabilization. Drawing curves is definitely getting easier.

About Lee Elias

Emigrating to the United States from Manchester, England, when he was a boy, Elias studied art at the Cooper Union and the Art Students League of New York. He started working in comics in 1943 at Fiction House,where his work included features such as “Captain Wings” in Wing Comics, on which he succeeded Bob Lubbers, as well as the Western hero Firehair.

After leaving Fiction House in 1946, he worked for several different comics companies, including Timely Comics, Hillman Periodicals, and National/DC where he worked on such characters as the Flash, Tommy Tomorrow, and Black Canary. He drew three issues of All Star Comics in 1947 and co-created the Fiddler and the original Star Sapphire with writer Robert Kanigher in All-Flash #32 (Dec. 1947).

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