A Red Sonja Cover Gallery




A Red Sonja Cover Gallery XLIV: Frison & Buscema



	This is the forty-fourth installment in our Red Sonja themed variant galleries, continuing from the first gallery. Below, we present ten selected variants from various comic books, featuring Red Sonja as envisioned by artists Jenny Frison & Stephanie Buscema.



	1 title: Red Sonja (2013) publisher: Dynamite cover artist: Jenny Frison writer: Gail Simone artist: Walter Geovani issue: #1 of 18 release date: July, 2013 cover: C variant commentary: Jenny Frison has drawn covers for every issue of Gail Simone's Red Sonja (2013). Previous galleries of Red Sonja covers have featured several contributions from the artist Jenny Frison, including Introduction: #6 Blood: #2 Horsewoman: #16 Snow: #14 A Face: #6 Viewed from Behind: #16 Animals: #9 Sketches: #1 2013: #10 2014: #10 2015: #2 & #5 Swords of Sorrow: #2 Red Sonja (2013) & (2016): #1, #2 & #3 Red Sonja (2023) First Issue: #6



	2 title: Red Sonja (2013) publisher: Dynamite cover artist: Jenny Frison writer: Gail Simone artist: Walter Geovani issue: #06 of 18 cover: A cover release date: December, 2013 commentary: The eighteen covers that Jenny Frison drew for Gail Simone's 2013 interpretation of Red Sonja have become highly sought after. Her signature water-color style is distinctive and appealing. As an aside her covers to the thirteen issues of Vampirella (2014), for example here, were also quite popular with collectors.



	3 title: Red Sonja (2013) publisher: Dynamite cover artist: Jenny Frison writers: Gail Simone artist: Walter Geovani issue: #8 of 18 release date: March, 2014 cover: A cover commentary: The vivid red hair of our heroine is a recurring theme in Frison depictions of Red Sonja, though this one is perhaps the most vibrant.



	4 title: Red Sonja (2013) publisher: Dynamite cover artist: Jenny Frison writer: Gail Simone artist: Walter Geovani issue: #11 of 18 release date: August, 2014 cover: A cover commentary: Frison presents Red Sonja as a beautiful woman without ignoring her lethal capabilities as a warrior, as seen by the corpses littered about her in this cover to issue #11.



	5 title: Red Sonja (2013) publisher: Dynamite cover artist: Jenny Frison writer: Gail Simone artist: Walter Geovani issue: #16 of 18 release date: May, 2015 cover: A cover commentary: Collectively, the eighteen covers that Frison drew for Red Sonja (2013) place her as one of the essential cover artists in the Red Sonja body of work.



	6 title: Red Sonja (2013) publisher: Dynamite cover artist: Stephanie Buscema writers: Gail Simone artist: Walter Geovani issue: #8 of 18 release date: March, 2014 cover: C variant commentary: Stephanie Buscema has drawn covers for every issue of Gail Simone's Red Sonja (2013). Other galleries of Red Sonja covers feature several contributions from the artist Stephanie Buscema, including Introduction: #7 Tentacles: #9 Horsewoman: #17 Dragons: #6 Snow: #15 A Face: #7 Skeletons: #9 Mythological Beasts: #9 Animal People: #9 Divine Agent: #8 2014: #7 2015: #3 axe: #8



	7 title: Red Sonja (2013) publisher: Dynamite cover artist: Stephanie Buscema writer: Gail Simone artist: Walter Geovani issue: #09 of 18 cover: E variant release date: May, 2014 commentary: Stephanie Buscema is willing to imbue Red Sonja with fear, as shown in this cover where she appears at a disadvantage in her encounter with a serpent-wielding lich. The cracked skin around the lich's mouth is enough to give the touch of great age and decrepitude to the otherwise vibrant style of Buscema.



	8 title: Red Sonja (2013) publisher: Dynamite cover artist: Stephanie Buscema writer: Gail Simone artist: Walter Geovani issue: #13 of 18 cover: E variant release date: November, 2014 commentary: We were so taken with Buscema's portrayal of Red Sonja on the eighteen issues of Red Sonja (2013), that we were induced to pursue a set of her covers to the thirteen issues of Vampirella (2014) and the lone issue of Warlord of Mars #100 (2010). Examples of Buscema's covers to Vampirella and Dejah Thoris can be found online.



	9 title: Red Sonja (2013) publisher: Dynamite cover artist: Stephanie Buscema writer: Gail Simone artist: Walter Geovani issue: #17 of 18 cover: E variant release date: July, 2015 commentary: As noted in more detail in the Hapax Legomena (Feminine) gallery, Gail Simone's 2013 interpretation of Red Sonja attempted to make up for the nearly total absence of female cover artists in the preceding 80-issue run of Red Sonja: She-Devil with a Sword (2005), by having virtually all of the covers for the 2013 series drawn by women. Both Frison and Buscema were part of this change in attitude. All the covers in this gallery showcase Red Sonja as seen through the eyes of another woman. However, this cover in particular showcases the difference. Buscema's eighteen covers portray Red Sonja in various traditional themes and activities, as enumerated above. This cover to issue #17 is an example of a template where Red Sonja is seated with her legs open and a sword is placed strategically between them, as a kind of warning. The difference in the feminine description of this theme is clear when it is compared to other entries in the Open gallery, which were all drawn by male artists.



	10 title: Red Sonja (2013) publisher: Dynamite cover artist: Stephanie Buscema writer: Gail Simone artist: Walter Geovani issue: #18 of 18 release date: September, 2015 cover: C variant For visitors to this site who are as enamored with the art of Stephanie Buscema as we were, she has a shop (Kitschy Witch Designs) where prints and other gifts are available. For the record, we have no commercial association with the site, other than as a customer.



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