Eerie #60 Cover 1974

This is the cover art for Eerie #60 by Ken Kelly, and it's got that classic oil paint smoothness. You can almost feel the slickness of the paint as it blends those otherworldly colors. Imagine Kelly in his studio, wrestling with this image—this alien landscape, the ships, the lava... But most of all that figure with her wild, gravity-defying hair. What's she thinking? Is she surrendering to this beast, or riding it? The surface is so smooth it's almost airbrushed, a real contrast to the subject matter. Everything glows, even the monster has a certain sheen to it. What’s great about a painting like this is that it reminds us that artists are always looking, borrowing, and riffing off each other, even across genres. It’s all part of one big, messy, beautiful conversation.