One of the gems of my art collection is a full size recreation of a comic book cover that I commissioned from inker Bob Wiacek at the 2012 New York Comic Con.
Bob’s run on The Uncanny X-Men with penciller Paul Smith and writer Chris Claremont has always been a favorite of mine. When I had met Bob at last year’s NYCC, I had originally intended to commission a pencil and ink sketch of Wolverine in the classic pose from the iconic cover of Uncanny X-Men #173, but Bob convinced me to go the distance and include Rogue in the background like the original cover. As you can see, he did a fantastic job on this commission.
I had requested the upper and lower boxes to be drawn in and left blank so I can have other artists draw the head sketches of the other members of the X-Men, and a Spider-Man sketch in the lower UPC box.
All that’s missing is the title and masthead, but I’ll add them at a later date. But in the meantime, here’s the current version of the commission!
Uncanny X-Men #173 Cover Recreation by Bob Wiacek (After Paul Smith)
Fante's Inferno 