It’s Abe Sapien Month at Multiversity! To see all sorts of Abe content, like our “Evolution of Abe Sapien” contest, fantastic original art, interviews and more, click here.
To celebrate our “Evolution of Abe Sapien” art contest, which gives every fan with some ambition and a modicum of artistic talent a chance to have their work published in an issue of “Abe Sapien: Dark and Terrible,” as well as take home a complete set of Hellboy Library Editions, we decided to bring in some ringers, to show us how they interpret everyone’s favorite fish-man. We will be posting pieces each day for this entire month, so come join us for 31 Days of Abe!
Declan Shalvey is the sometimes interior/sometimes cover artist on Marvel’s “Venom” and the cover artist for “Winter Soldier.” He made his name with his Eagle Award-winning “Hero Killers” (written by Andy Winter), and has also done work on Marvel’s “Thunderbolts,” Dark Horse’s “Conan the Barbarian,” Boom!’s “28 Days Later,” and “Planet of the Apes” series, and illustrated an adaptation of Mary Shelly’s “Frankenstein,” among many, many other things. You can check out his website, his deviantArt page, buy some of his original art at Cadence Comic Art, and follow him on Twitter (@declanshalvey).
Also of note is that this beautiful piece of art is illustrated by our pal Jordie Bellaire (who just happens to be sweet on this Shalvey bloke). Check out her Tumblr and follow her on Twitter (@whoajordie). Also, if you buy comics with any sort of regularity, she’s probably coloring at least a few of them.
Feeling inspired by this great piece of art? Then enter our “Evolution of Abe Sapien” art contest! Full details are here. And make sure to pick up “Abe Sapien” #1 on April 3 from Dark Horse!
