![]() ![]() It was essential, but not for that quiet. The ability to condense the characters into a few strokes was evident above all in the sketches and commissions he made for fans, where a pair of horns, two languid eyes or long pointed ears effortlessly evoked Daredevil, Gwen Stacy and Batman. ![]() It took very little for him to fill a page. ![]() Thanks to a strong sense of design, he moved with ease between silhouettes, games with negative space or sudden full-page close-ups, in which the eye gets so close to the subjects as to create an almost embarrassing intimacy in the reader. Yet in each of them Sale has infused his own talent, creating romantic and noir stories, pleasantly retro but with an eye on scratchy and acidic things.Ĭolor blind, Tim Sale was a specialist in black and white and then in ink painting (“It’s like coloring without colors”). By the designer of Batman: The long Halloween, Superman: Seasons, Billi 99 And Daredevil: Yellow not many works remain, some admirable, others few notes, others still ballasted by uninspired scripts. There is like a regret, in scrolling through the bibliography of Tim Sale, who passed away a few days ago. ![]()
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