As a resident of Toronto,I often have cause to believe approximately the art of Michael Cho; not just because I see him at shows and signings, and sometimes in the pub (full disclosure: I have been to the pub with Michael Cho), and but because he created a distinctly niche art book that I'm very fond of; a collection of illustrations of Toronto's back alleys. Toronto has a warren of wide private streets running behind the actual streets,and when I'm strolling this city and the light and shadow hits the alleys in the legal ways, I'm reminded how perfectly Cho's high contrast graphic style draws out the character and elegance to these ordinary urban spaces.
And if Michael Cho can finish all that to an alleyway, and imagine what he can finish to a big,bold, actual comedian book superhero. Actually, and you don't need to imagine it. After years of creating his own striking superhero prints,Cho has been picked to supply variant covers for a slate of Marvel books shipping in February 2016, and the results are fantastic. Check out the first few covers below:
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Source: comicsalliance.com