Fritz Lang's Kriemhild's Revenge (1924) and Orson Welles's Touch of Evil (1958)

this one's a more direct comparison between Welles and German Expressionism - we have a shot from Fritz Lang's Kriemhild's Revenge (1924) and Orson Welles's Touch of Evil (1958) - both shots superimpose a character over a horned beast in overt symbolic connotations (on the top, that's Attila the Hun, behind some monster statue, the horns aren't coming out of his head...)

David and Goliath (1961)- Fritz Lang's Siegfried (1924)

The top one is a shot from David and Goliath (1961)- the bottom is Fritz Lang's Siegfried (1924) - Again this is part of my rather oblique Orson Welles and German Expressionism influence theory - In this case there's a memoir form Welles' personal assistant on David and Goliath which confirms that he was quite involved in directing and writing on that film...

Jane Eyre' (1943) and 'The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari' (1919)

let's compare a shot from 'Jane Eyre' (1943) and 'The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari' (1919) - Lurking behind all of this gothic madness is the figure of Mr. Orson Welles, who is said to have done a certain amount of uncredited directing in Jane Eyre, the above shot being a good example - I've tried to substantiate this theory by showing a possible Caligari influence, seeing as Welles' has been influenced by German Expressionism, although the quixotic Mr. Welles downplays this influence stuff: Jane Eyre finally has a half-decent DVD release: http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film2/DVDReviews30/jane_eyre.htm

John Buscema Conan#100 (Ernie Chan inked) -

One of my favorite John Buscema pencil jobs is Conan#100 (Ernie Chan inked) - an adaptation of one of Robert E. Howard's best Conan stories - The Queen of the Black Coast' - the first part was adapted in Conan #58 with Steve Gan inking (whom I like a lot). It's all there - superb draftsmaship, drama, mood, action, movement, settings, characterization, emotion, pacing, rhythm, structure, composition ... a great artist working with a great story - I like to read it while drinking Banana-Pineapple smoothies - here's what Buscema had to say about Bob Howard:

'When I was working from the Howard books, Conan was the greatest joy in my life. He wrote everything. I could see the dungeon, I could see the castle, I could see the people, the atmosphere. Unfortunately, again, the biggest mistake I ever did was that I didn't do the finished drawings on those stories or ink them. They gave them to inkers who did whatever they wanted with those pages, and they destroyed the entire concept.

I wish I could do every one of those stories again, working from the Howard books. It was like I didn't have to draw them. I just sat there and swiped what Howard gave me in that book. It was like looking at a movie. He's great; I love his works. The people who've taken over Conan, like Carter and de Camp, and all the other people, they're absolutely lost.They don't don't understand Conan. The only one who ever did was Howard. He could describe a scene in sentences where it would take pages for other people to do it.'

Comics Feature #31