![]() ![]() ![]() Cooke also reveled in the complex amoral universe of the anti-hero loner of hard-boiled crime fiction. Cooke had a similarly wry sense of humour – sometimes appearing at conventions in the red dress serge tunic and Stetson of an RCMP officer (at WonderCon 2010) or on another memorable occasion (Dragon Con 2009) wearing a plush Winnie the Pooh mascot costume. Cooke “distills Westlake’s lean prose to concentrated bursts of scruffy chiaroscuro, looming negative space, pacing-tiger tension and ice-cold violence.” Westlake, featuring the coldblooded con man Parker, also won praise.ĭescribing those adaptations in The New York Times Book Review in 2010, Douglas Wolk, an author who writes frequently about comics, said that Mr. His adaptations, beginning in 2009, of four hard-boiled novels by Richard Stark, a pseudonym used by Donald E. Cooke’s most celebrated works was DC: The New Frontier, a six-issue series published in 2004 that chronicled the experiences of superheroes including Flash, Green Lantern and Wonder Woman, in the 1950s. If you doubt the impact Darwyn had on fans, colleagues, friends and the comics industry as a whole, read on.Īmong Mr. Below are excerpts and links to some of the best, with a slight bias for mentions of his work on the Parker graphic novels. ![]() ![]() Many articles about Darwyn Cooke have appeared since his untimely passing ten days ago. ![]()
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