Welcome back to Visions of Lorelei, a 13-part artistic event that celebrates the recent publication of Lorelei: Sects and the City, a Mature Readers graphic novel that reintroduces The ’Warp’s soul-stealing succubus. For day two, we have the first-ever Lorelei convention sketch that I commissioned.
In 1989, Dave Simons was the inker of Marvel Comics’ Ghost Rider, bringing—with penciler Bob Budiansky—a Bernie Wrightson–like look to a series that had started out as a 1970s horror title but had eventually devolved into just another superhero comic. At last the motorcycle-riding hero was returning to his horror roots, which meant that when I learned he was attending a comic book convention in New York City (one of the early Great Eastern Cons, I think), I put him on my list of artists I wanted to approach for a sketch.
See, 1989 was also the year that I introduced Lorelei in a digest-sized comic that I’d spent months drawing—my very first comic project—so I was curious to see how professional artists would interpret her. Simons was the first I talked to—and man, was I happy with the result!
