Sunday Swipes No. 4

Not long ago, I found a series of European comic books called Chica. In an issue called Chica: A Horse Angel Special, from 2007, I saw a sequence that looked familiar:

I can't fairly call it a swipe, but the sequence shown above is very similar to the one shown below, by Frank Frazetta:

I have scanned this image from The Fantastic Art of Frank Frazetta, published by Bantam Books in 1975. That first Frazetta book is justly famous and well sought after. The uncredited artist on Chica may never have seen it, but it's pretty conceivable that he or she would have seen it and to have been inspired by it.

Text copyright 2023 Terence E. Hanley