![]() ![]() And a brief turn at New York City’s School of Visual Arts and a Manhattan workshop, staffed by the Marvel artists he adored as a child, only confirmed for Sale his love of the West Coast. His only formal education was a two-year stint at the University of Washington. The passions he’s accumulated inform his conversation - littered with references to the Beatles and vintage film noir - as well as his work. Be it through luck, fate, elbow grease or sly calculation, Sale’s managed to create a successful career out of illustrating the cape-and-cowl crowd exactly the way he wants to, in a style distilling a century’s worth of influences, in all manner of popular media.īorn in Ithaca, New York, Sale grew up in Seattle (evident, to the ears of this East Coast city dweller, in his calm, thoughtful speech patterns), and on a steady diet of comics and pop culture. That’s one of the unique things about comic-book artist Tim Sale. Today’s mainstream superhero comics aren’t exactly known for nourishing the careers of artists who are quick to ignore the latest fashion. (All subsequent images written by Jeph Loeb and drawn by Tim Sale unless otherwise noted.) ![]() From the TCJ Archives The Tim Sale Interviewįrom The Comics Journal #291 (July 2008) From Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale's Catwoman: When in Rome, which was colored by Dave Stewart and lettered by Richard Starkings, circa 2004–2005. ![]()
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