Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
May 21, 2008
Cover Art

Sports Illustrated turns to a comic book artist for their latest cover. It shows an extremely muscular Rays player holding Derek Jeter over his head with one hand while a Bizzaro Superman looks on. Jeffrey Renaud of CBR News writes the story of how artist Mark Bagley drew this on a very short deadline:

Bagley, who, heroically, is scheduled to provide pencils for all 52 issues of "Trinity," told CBR News Tuesday evening, "Dan Didio called me Thursday afternoon asking if I could do the pencils. I asked him what the deadline was and he said inked and colored by Monday. I said something nasty, and agreed to do it. From then I dealt with Mark Chiarello.

"'SI' gave me a paragraph long description of what they needed, and I went to town with some sketches. I had a sketch approved by noon on Friday, and finished the piece Saturday morning.

I love the result.


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