Comic book art and album cover art each have their own value. There are comic book cover images that will forever be ingrained into our memory. DC’s “Death Of Superman” cover, for example. Similarly, there are album cover designs that evoke emotion just on sight.

Cliff Chiang is a former assistant editor at DC Comics. These days, he’s an illustrator, best known for his work on Human Target (soon to be a live-action series on Fox TV), Beware the Creeper, and Crisis Aftermath: The Spectre. He has a strong, 80s influenced illustration style that really stands out.

Here are examples of his work:

We love this style. Cliff is putting his 80s powers to good use with the following work, classic 80s album covers with heavy comic book references. This stuff is amazing:

The Elektra piece is one of our favorite pieces from the convention. He talks about this piece on his blog:

This was a blast to draw. After years of brush inking, it was liberating to grab a pen and just mess around. I think the brilliant source material inspired me to experiment and play with the look of the piece, and it turned out to be a great learning experience. I’ve still got a few more ideas for other album covers that I’ll get to soon.

We met Cliff at HeroesCon last week. He’s a very talented guy and was working on some fantastic sketches. Check him out! This is going to inspire a new book, or perhaps, an upcoming Mobile Soul cover!

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