Bill Sienkiewicz: Revolution, Vol. I, the first of a planned three-volume series of authorized art books with the legendary artist, whose 40-year career includes DareDevil, Moon Knight, Elektra: Assassin, Stray Toasters, Legion, Venom, and New Mutants.
Featuring an introduction by Neil Gaiman, Bill Sienkiewicz: Revolution represents the first time the artist’s work and career have been taken out of the context of comic books and evaluated as fine art. Available in both Trade and Limited Editions.
A Limited Edition of 1,000 Signed and Numbered Copies
Contained in a fabric-covered clamshell box is a collection of 40 individual deluxe reproductions of previously unpublished paintings, drawings, sketches, and mixed media works from four decades of Sienkiewicz’s notebooks and personal collection as well as other private collections.
A booklet signed by the artist includes an introduction by Neil Gaiman and an interview in which Sienkiewicz explains his influences and techniques and offers his view on the future of comic book art.
Winner of the 2020 Tripwire Award for Best Collection
With a luxurious fabric cover and an introduction by Neil Gaiman, who famously collaborated with Sienkiewicz on The Sandman, the Trade Edition features images curated by Sal Abbinanti, Sienkiewicz’s representative and colleague for nearly twenty years.
Ben Davis, award-winning Senior Writer for Artnet News, considers Sienkiewicz’s process and places him within the context of art and popular culture, and an interview with the artist himself expresses his unique voice and presents some of his greatest artistic achievements.
PRAISE FOR BILL SIENKIEWICZ: REVOLUTION, Vol 1
“Astounding… extraordinary… Jumping between highlighting his indie cult status as an artist and the mindset behind the abstraction of some of comics most beloved characters, the collection ultimately acts as a stunning visual love letter to one of comics most revered artists.” -Comics Beat
“A treasure trove of Sienkiewicz’s art from over the years (including segments from his work on Marvel’s New Mutants, his Jimi Hendrix biography Voodoo Child, and more). Even if you’ve seen his work before, you haven’t seen it like this.” — ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
“For four decades, Bill Sienkiewicz has been a trend-setting artist and storyteller whose distinctive style smuggled avant-garde notions of design, expressionism and fine art sensibility into the pages of comics like New Mutants, Moon Knight, Elektra: Assassin, and graphic novels like Stray Toasters and Voodoo Child: The Illustrated Legend of Jimi Hendrix, permanently expanding the visual vocabulary of American comics.” – Forbesmagazine
“Featuring the eclectic work from one of the most prolific artists working today, the new art book Bill Sienkiewicz: Revolution . . . eye-catching.” —The Daily Dead
“Revolution is an exquisite book which comes close to capturing his essence on the page and apparently this is the first in a series of three books about Sienkiewicz. Congratulations to Six Foot Press for pulling this off. Fans of the artist or of distinctive modern comic art should run to grab this book.” – Tripwire Magazine
“Bill sees clearly, paints beautifully. He absorbs styles and ways of making art with the facility he had as a young man, but now I always feel he’s in control of what he does. . . . My hope is that a book like this, filled with Bill’s art all in one place, will show people who think they know what Bill can do exactly how much more he can do than any of them had ever dreamed.”
— Neil Gaiman, author of The Sandman
“Humble, light-hearted, and astonishingly talented . . . Bill Sienkiewicz has become a name synonymous with genre-bending artwork. . . . Needless to say, you can’t throw a stone without hitting an incredible title that Sienkiewicz has tackled within the comics industry.” —Comics Beat
“Bill Sienkiewicz is one of the most revolutionary creators in the comic book industry, a talented visionary whose evocative, award-winning work always carries a razor-sharp edge glinting brightly from just beyond our collective unconscious.”—SYFY