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R.I.P. Tony DeZuniga
We are just losing too many good ones lately. Tony DeZuniga has passed away at the age of 79, following a stroke.
Most of the obits are probably going to mention his work on
Conan and on
Jonah Hex, and rightfully so. He was brilliant on those books.
I always have said black-and-white was the best way to see a DeZuniga job, so that's the way I thought I'd show him depicting his two signature characters. See what I mean?
But he could do other stuff too. Horror?.
Here's DeZuniga from HOUSE OF MYSTERY.
Romance?.
Here's DeZuniga in GIRL'S LOVE.
Even science fiction.
DeZuniga does STAR WARS, in Marvel's short-lived PIZZAZZ magazine.
However, he was always at his best doing two-fisted macho adventure. That was what I liked best, anyway, especially the non-spandex stuff. I was tickled to see Tony DeZuniga doing a new
Jonah Hex graphic novel a couple of years ago and I was one of the first in line to get it the week it came out. He hadn?t lost a step in all the decades since he first drew Hex.
This is a great, great book.
Anyway. Lots of people are going to be talking about DeZuniga?s western and adventure comics, but the one that hit me right between the eyes was his Doc Savage. It was just a few weeks ago I was looking back fondly on
the run of Doc Savage that DeZuniga did with Doug Moench. That?s the only time I ever felt like the character
actually looked like the super-adventurer promised on the Bantam paperbacks cover copy, and that was all Tony DeZuniga? he took that James Bama painted characterization of Doc and made it
move.
Lots of the Marvel guys could do action... but Tony DeZuniga's action scenes had a visceral feel like nobody else's. They looked like they HURT.
DC?s got a nice Showcase volume collecting it and I?d recommend it, if you really want to see Tony DeZuniga at his best.
He always drew women that looked like real women, too.
I only got to meet him once, at the Emerald City show in 2009.
On the left is Mr. DeZuniga holding our friend Laura's Torvald the Troll; I was too starstruck to remember to get a picture, so I'm glad Laura got this one. And on the right is the book he signed for me.