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Barry Windsor-Smith (born Barry Smith, 25 May 1949) is a British comic book illustrator and painter whose best known work has been produced in the United States. He attained note working on Marvel Comics' ''
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'' from 1970 to 1973, and for his work on the character
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, particularly the 1991 "
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" story arc. His other noted Marvel work included a 1984 "
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" story in ''
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'', the "Lifedeath" and "Lifedeath II" stories with writer
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that focused on the de-powered
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in ''
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'', as well as the 1984 ''
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'' limited series with
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and
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. After leaving Marvel, Windsor-Smith became the creative director and lead artist at
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, where he illustrated the company's revival of the 1960s
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character Solar, and created the original characters
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. He was also the chief designer of the "
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" crossover storyline. After leaving Valiant in 1993, Windsor-Smith did work through a number of publishers, including co-creating the vampiric character
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with Chris Ulm, which was published as part of
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. Rune's adventures included a crossover with Conan that Windsor-Smith wrote and illustrated. He also provided art for the
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", though he later came to regret that work. He subsequently created an oversized anthology series, '' Barry Windsor-Smith: Storyteller'' through
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, though it was cancelled after nine issues. Windsor-Smith released his subsequent work through
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, including the ''Storyteller'' spin-off ''Adastra in Africa'', which had originally been conceived as a "Lifedeath III" story for Storm; two volumes of the retrospective hardcover art book ''Opus''; and ''Monsters'', a 360-page hardcover published in 2021 that had originally been conceived in the mid-1980s as a ''Hulk'' story.


Early life

Barry Windsor-Smith was born Barry Smith on 25 May 1949 in
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, a working class area in the
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. He displayed artistic abilities at an early age, and his parents supported in pursuing an education in the arts. He attended East Ham Technical College for three years, earning degrees in Industrial Design and Illustration.


Career

Windsor-Smith produced his first published work in 1967 and 1968 – single page "Powerhouse Pinups" of
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characters for '' Terrific'' and ''
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that included licensed
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reprints for the UK market. Following this, he flew to the U.S. in summer 1968 with fellow artist
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for meetings at Marvel in New York. "I sent material first, and based solely upon a pleasant return note from Stan ees assistant
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esque style, Marvel Comics Editor Stan Lee gave him the job of drawing both the cover and story of ''
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'' No. 53 (
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d Feb. 1969), credited to Barry Smith as he was then known. and He drew Marvel's '' Daredevil'' #50–52 (March–May 1969), a Western short story, "Half Breed" (probably the story "Outcast" eventually published in ''Western Gunfighters'' No. 4, Feb. 1971), and issue #12 of '' Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.'' (May 1969), both scripted by Parkhouse. Windsor-Smith later called his early art "amateur and klutzy" and a "less than skillful" Kirby imitation, but Stan Lee liked it enough to give him more work. Despite this,
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assigned him issues No. 66 and No. 67 of ''The
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'' (July–Aug. 1969) after he had returned to the UK. These stories introduced the fictitious indestructible metal alloy
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. He continued to work at a distance for Marvel, providing the art for a number of stories in the horror anthology titles ''
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'' and ''
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''. Thomas, a long-time fan of Robert E. Howard's 1930
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, had Windsor-Smith provide art for a
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story, "Starr the Slayer", in ''Chamber of Darkness'' No. 4 (April 1970). Soon afterwards, Thomas offered Windsor-Smith the job as penciller for Marvel's adaptation of Conan, starting with ''Conan the Barbarian'' No. 1 (Oct. 1970). In 1971, Windsor-Smith moved to the United States, having been granted a work permit. Comics historian
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noted that Windsor-Smith's "initial efforts were slightly sketchy, but his technique progressed by leaps and bounds. Within a few months he had achieved a style never seen in comics before." During his run on ''Conan the Barbarian'', Windsor-Smith was involved in the writing as well. He and writer Roy Thomas adapted a number of R.E. Howard short stories, the aforementioned "The Frost-Giant's Daughter", "Tower of the Elephant", "Rogues in the House", and "Red Nails". As well as the art and story contributions, Windsor-Smith provided the covers for most issues. They worked on original adventures and characters based on R.E. Howard's characters – most notably the flame-haired warrior-woman,
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– loosely based on a character from one of Howard's non-Conan stories, who has now become a major comics character in her own right – in "The Song of Red Sonja" in ''Conan the Barbarian'' No. 24 (March 1973), Windsor-Smith's last issue of the title. By then he had worked on 21 of the first 24 issues of the series, missing only issues No. 17 and No. 18, and No. 22 (which was a reprint of issue #1), and both he and the title had won a number of awards. Windsor-Smith would later say that the reason he missed those issues was because he had quit the series a number of times as he was dissatisfied with the work and how the comics business worked, rather than the deadline problems Marvel quoted. In 2010,
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ranked Thomas and Windsor-Smith's work on ''Conan the Barbarian'' seventh on its list of the "Top 10 1970s Marvels". Windsor-Smith provided the art for a number of other Marvel Comics titles, including the Ka-Zar stories in ''
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'' #3–6 (December 1970 – June 1971) and No. 10 (February 1972), three further issues of ''The Avengers'' (#98–100, April–June 1972) – about which he would later remember the nightmare of drawing "all those bloody characters that I didn't give tuppence about", ''
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'' No. 47 (June 1972), and ''
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'' #3–4 (July–September 1972), which featured
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, both of which were apparently re-scripted by Stan Lee after being drawn to Lee's original scripts. Windsor-Smith was by now becoming disillusioned with the comics industry and the way in which in his opinion the writers and artists were being exploited: "I needed to be free of constraints and policies that were imposed by the dictates of creating entertainment for children" Shortly thereafter, Windsor-Smith left comics for the first time, leaving only a couple of inventory items in the Marvel Comics vaults, both stories of R.E. Howard characters:
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in "Exile of Atlantis" (''
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'' No. 3, December 1974), and Bran Mak Morn in "Worms of the Earth" (''Savage Sword of Conan'' No. 16, November 1975). Other than ten pages of inking of Jack Kirby pencil work for ''
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's Bicentennial Battles'' (1976), a one-off oversize
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, he produced no more comics work until 1983. At this point he changed his professional surname to Windsor-Smith, adding his mother's surname to his own, and began to pursue a career in fine art. Granted residential status in the United States in 1974, Windsor-Smith, along with his partner Linda Lessman, set up Gorblimey Press, through which he released a small number of limited-edition prints of fantasy-based subjects that proved popular. In 1976 Windsor-Smith published ''The Gorblimey Press Catalogue'', a high quality index to the work published by Gorblimey Press, with full-page reproductions of each piece. Prior to that, in 1975, together with Jeff Jones,
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, and
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, he was one of four comic book artists-turned-fine-illustrator/painters who formed a small artist's loft commune in Manhattan known as The Studio, with the aim of pursuing creative products outside the constraints of comic book commercialism. By 1979 they had produced enough material to issue an art book under the name ''The Studio'', which was published by Dragon's Dream ().


1980s

Smith designed and drew the fictitious comic strip "Mandro" for the 1981
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horror film '' The Hand''. In the film, the artwork is used as that of character Jon Lansdale, a comic book illustrator played by
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. Stone explains the hiring of Smith thus:
I'd always been a fan of his. I think I fell in love with his version of Conan before I had even read the Howard books. He did more for that comic than anyone…Since the cartoonist was drawing a Conan-type character, Barry was the logical choice. Oddly enough, Barry was English, as was Michael, and they both have sandy blond hair. When they first met, they discovered that they're both about 6' 2", and that they both have the same sort of
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wit. The similarity was quite amazing.
Windsor-Smith returned to mainstream comics work for Marvel in 1983 with two pieces, a short mystical tale of love, "The Beguiling", and a dark, humorous two-page black-and-white story, "A Path of Stars", both in ''
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'' No. 16 (February 1983), which featured a page-and-a-half Windsor-Smith spread accompanying an Archie Goodwin text story called "The Horde" (which appears to be a drawing of Conan and Valeria in battle). Later the same year he produced a short piece in
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's ''Swords of
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'' (#5, 1983), followed in 1984 by several Marvel superhero stories: an untitled story, though usually referred to as "that night...", and an April Fool's story of The Thing in ''
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'' No. 15 (July 1984), which he wrote and drew. He illustrated "Lifedeath" a double-sized
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story in ''The Uncanny X-Men'' No. 186 (October 1984), and a four-issue ''
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'' limited series (October 1984 – January 1985), for which Windsor-Smith was artist and colorist over
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layouts for the first three issues, and drew and colored alone for the fourth. Although he would return to the X-Men once a year for the next three years, (''Uncanny X-Men'' No. 198, #205 and #214), his mainstream comics output remained limited throughout the rest of the 1980s, amounting to just one issue each of ''
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'' (#296, November 1986) and '' Daredevil'' (#236, November 1986), two issues of ''
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'' (#232, July 1988 and No. 243, June 1989), two pages for DC Comics' ''
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'' benefit project, and two small pieces for the
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-winning comics anthology '' A1'' published by
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. In 1987 he returned to his first major success and provided new painted covers for nine issues of Marvel's Conan reprint title ''The Conan Saga'', all issues which contained black-and-white reprints of his original 1970s stories.


1990s

Together with the X-Men spin-off ''
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'' (#27, September 1990), Windsor-Smith's last work for Marvel Comics came with the serialized "
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" feature in ''
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'' #72–84 (1991), his telling of the origin of the X-Men character
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which he wrote, drew, inked, colored, and co-lettered. In late 1991, he was approached by
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, a new comics publisher founded by former Marvel Comics writer and editor-in-chief
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, and asked to act as their creative director and lead artist. Valiant had obtained the licenses for a number of characters originally published in the 1960s and 1970s by
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:
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,
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and Turok Dinosaur Hunter, and added their own original titles to the roster, including ''
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'', ''
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'', '' Shadowman'', ''
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'', ''
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'', '' Bloodshot'', ''
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'', and ''
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''. Windsor-Smith was the chief designer of the "
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" crossover storyline for Valiant Comics, and writer and artist for most of the first dozen issues of the title ''
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''. By focusing on storytelling and innovative marketing practices such as a tightly knit continuity, crossovers and send away issues Valiant quickly became a considerable success story, selling nearly two million copies of premiere issues and rapidly becoming the third largest comics publisher in the US, behind the long-time industry leaders Marvel and
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. However, in 1993 Windsor-Smith once again found himself in opposition to company employment policies when Valiant decided to adopt the same
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practices that he had disliked in Marvel Comics, and became dissatisfied with his position in the company: "They needed me as a figurehead just as much as a creator." He left Valiant soon after Jim Shooter's departure from the company. Smith has called work-for-hire contracts "a legal but unethical instrument designed to rape and plunder young talents of every possible prerogative they would otherwise possess if they had the fortune to work for more scrupulous, morally invested, publishers." Of his work for Valiant, and the problems he encountered there over legal ownership of titles and characters, Windsor-Smith said in 2008, "In the 1970s I was constantly asked when I would 'do Conan again'. In these latter years I receive e-mails imploring me to return to ''Archer and Armstrong''. My short reply is, 'When pigs fly to the Moon and return home safely. Since leaving Valiant, Windsor-Smith has worked for a number of companies. For Malibu's
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line he co-created
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with Chris Ulm, including a crossover one-shot comic titled ''Conan vs. Rune'' published by Marvel Comics in 1994 after they took over Malibu. As a result he once again came up against legal ownership problems, and the ''Rune'' stories have remained un-reprinted as a result. For
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he worked on the crossover storyline "
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", drawing and coloring ''Wildstorm Rising'' No. 1 (May 1995), and all eleven of the covers for the interlinked series. Windsor-Smith later said that he was talked into illustrating ''Wildstorm Rising'', and regretted participating in it, stating that in reading the story and illustrating it, he could not understand the motivations of any of the characters, even when he read earlier Wildstorm books featuring the characters. He says he altered the plot in an attempt to improve it and his enthusiasm for it, later learning that writer James Robinson was not pleased with his doing so. In 1995 Windsor-Smith created an oversized anthology series, ''Barry Windsor-Smith: Storyteller'' for
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that contained three ongoing features: "The Paradoxman", a dark science-fiction tale, "Young GODS", a homage to Jack Kirby's ''Thor'' and ''
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'' series, and "The Freebooters", a lighthearted action series about an ageing Conan-like character grown older and heavier and now running a tavern. He cancelled ''Storyteller'' after nine issues, even though a tenth issue had been completed; since then
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has issued hardcover collections of "Young GODS" and "The Freebooters". Each of these hardcover volumes includes supplemental features, essays and previously unseen art. Fantagraphics has published Windsor-Smith's ''Adastra in Africa'', a hardcover starring a character from "Young GODS" in a story originally intended to be published as "Lifedeath III" for Marvel's ''X-Men'', with the character ''
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''. In 1999 Fantagraphics published two volumes of ''BWS – Opus'', a hardcover art books featuring Windsor-Smith's work from throughout his career, including an autobiographical story, "Time Rise", which features details of his experiences with seemingly paranormal phenomena.


2000s

Windsor-Smith created a story called "UFO POV," an 11-page story in ''Streetwise'' (July 2000), a trade paperback anthology published by
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. In 2000 and 2001 he also produced cover art for a number of Marvel titles including Grant Morrison's '' New X-Men'', and drew five pages of ''
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'' #166 (Sept. 2001), a "Weapon X" tie-in written by Frank Tieri. In January 2004, Fantagraphics Books published Windsor-Smith's ''Young Gods and Friends'', a hardcover collecting material from ''Barry Windsor-Smith: Storyteller'' along with new material. November 2005 saw a follow-up hardcover titled ''The Freebooters'', again collecting material from ''Storyteller'' with new material. A planned third and final volume, collecting "The Paradoxman" serial, has not yet been released. In January 2006, Windsor-Smith announced on the website Comic Book Galaxy that he was in negotiations to publish a
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for Marvel Comics starring The Thing. He was working on a
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story in 1999 that has not yet seen print.


2020s

Windsor-Smith's next work was ''Monsters'', a 366-page graphic novel that began life as a 23-page ''Hulk'' story in 1984 or 1985, and was released on April 27, 2021 by Fantagraphics, Windsor-Smith's first book in 16 years. Windsor-Smith describes the book as one that "explores the life and times of two disparate American families fatefully connected by an abandoned Nazi project in genetic engineering that has been covertly revived by the US government".


Personal life

As of 2021, Windsor-Smith was living in the United States, which had been his home since 1971.


Awards

*1970 –
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Best Individual Story ("Lair of the Beast Men," by Roy Thomas and Barry Smith, from ''Conan the Barbarian'' #2) (nominated) *1971 – Academy of Comic Book Arts Awards Best Continuing Feature (''Conan the Barbarian'') (winner) *1971 – Academy of Comic Book Arts Awards Best Individual Story ("Devil Wings over Shadizar," by Roy Thomas and Barry Smith, from ''Conan the Barbarian'' No. 6 and "Tower of the Elephant," by Roy Thomas and Barry Smith, from ''Conan the Barbarian'' #4) (nominated) *1972 – Academy of Comic Book Arts Awards Best Individual Story Dramatic ("The Black Hound of Vengeance," by Roy Thomas and Barry Smith, from ''Conan the Barbarian'' #20) (nominated) *1973 – Academy of Comic Book Arts Awards Best Continuing Feature (''Conan the Barbarian'') (nominated) *1973 – Academy of Comic Book Arts Awards Best Individual Story Dramatic ("Song of Red Sonja," by Roy Thomas and Barry Smith, from ''Conan the Barbarian'' #24) (winner) * 1973 β€” Goethe Award Favorite Pro Artist (winner) *1973 – British Fantasy Society Awards Best Comic (''Conan the Barbarian'') (winner) *1974 – Academy of Comic Book Arts Awards Best Individual Story Dramatic ("Red Nails," by Roy Thomas and Barry Smith, from ''Savage Tales'' #1–3) (nominated) *1974 –
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for Superior Achievement by an Individual (nominated) *1974 – British Fantasy Society Awards Best Comic (''Conan the Barbarian'') (winner) *1975 – Inkpot Award (winner) *1975 – British Fantasy Society Awards Best Comic (''The Savage Sword of Conan'') (winner) *1976 – British Fantasy Society Awards Best Comic (''The Savage Sword of Conan'') (winner) *1977 –
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Favourite Comicbook Artist (nominated) *1985 –
Haxtur Awards The Haxtur Award (''Premios Haxtur'') is a Spanish award for comics published in Spain. It is awarded annually at the SalΓ³n Internacional del CΓ³mic del Principado de Asturias (International Comics Convention of the Principality of Asturias). It ...
Best Long Story (''Machine Man'') (nominated) *1985 – Haxtur Awards Best Drawing (''Machine Man'') (nominated) *1990 – Gem Award for Outstanding Service and Product Best Comic under $3 (''Deathmate Prologue'') (nominated) *1993 – UK Comic Art Awards Best New Feature (''Archer & Armstrong'') *1997 – Comics' Buyer's Guide Favorite Colorist (nominated) *1997 –
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Best New Series (''Barry Windsor-Smith: Storyteller'') (nominated) *1998 –
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Favorite Colorist (nominated) *2008 –
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Hall of Fame (winner)


Bibliography


DC Comics

*'' Batman 3-D'' graphic novel (one page pinup) (1990) *''Heroes Against Hunger'' No. 1 (1986) *'' Sandman Special'' No. 1 (one page pinup) (1991) *'' Superman Special'' No. 1 (one page pinup) (1992)


Marvel Comics

*''
Astonishing Tales ''Astonishing Tales'' is an American anthology comic book series originally published by Marvel Comics from 1970 to 1976. Its sister publication was ''Amazing Adventures'' (vol. 2). In 2008 and 2009, Marvel produced 11 webcomics starring differ ...
'' ( Ka-Zar): #3–6, 10 (1971–72) *''
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'' #66–67, 98–100 (1969–72) *''
Chamber of Darkness ''Chamber of Darkness'' is a horror/fantasy anthology comic book published by the American company Marvel Comics. Under this and a subsequent name, it ran from 1969 to 1974. It featured work by creators such as writer-editor Stan Lee, writers Gerr ...
'' #3–4 (1970) *''
Conan the Barbarian Conan the Barbarian (also known as Conan the Cimmerian) is a fictional sword and sorcery hero who originated in pulp magazines and has since been adapted to books, comics, films (including '' Conan the Barbarian'' and '' Conan the Destroyer'') ...
'' #1–16, 19–24 (1970–73) *''Conan vs.
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'' No. 1 (1995) *'' Daredevil'' #50–52, 236 (1969–1986) *''
Epic Illustrated ''Epic Illustrated'' was a comics anthology in magazine format published in the United States by Marvel Comics. Similar to the US-licensed comic book magazine '' Heavy Metal'', it allowed explicit content to be featured, unlike the traditional Am ...
'' No. 7, 16, 19, 34 (1981–86) *''
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'' No. 27 (1990) *''
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'' No. 296 (among other artists) (1986) *''
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'' No. 47, 232, 243 (1972–1989) *''
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'', miniseries, #1–4 (1984–85) *''
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'' (
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): #72–84 (1991) *''
Marvel Fanfare ''Marvel Fanfare'' was an anthology comic book series published by American company Marvel Comics. It was a showcase title featuring a variety of characters from the Marvel universe. Volume one ''Marvel Fanfare'' featured characters and settings ...
'' ( The Thing) No. 15 (1984) *''
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'' (
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) #3–4 (1972) *'' Marvel Treasury Special Featuring Captain America's Bicentennial Battles'' (co-inker) (1976) *''
Monsters on the Prowl ''Chamber of Darkness'' is a horror/fantasy anthology comic book published by the American company Marvel Comics. Under this and a subsequent name, it ran from 1969 to 1974. It featured work by creators such as writer-editor Stan Lee, writers Ge ...
'' No. 9 (1971) *''
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, Agent of
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'' No. 12 (1969) *''
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'' No. 3, 16 (1974–76) *''
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'' (Conan) #1–4 (1971–74) *''
Tower of Shadows ''Tower of Shadows'' is a horror/fantasy anthology comic book published by the American company Marvel Comics under this and a subsequent name from 1969 to 1975. It featured work by writer-artists Neal Adams, Jim Steranko, Johnny Craig, and Wa ...
'' No. 3, 5, 7 (1970) *''
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'' No. 53, 186, 198, 205, 214 (1969–87) *''
Western Gunfighters ''Western Gunfighters'' is the name of two American Western-anthology comic book series published by Marvel Comics and its 1950s forerunner, Atlas Comics. That initial Atlas series ran eight issues, from 1956 to 1957, and featured artists includi ...
'' No. 4 (1971) *''
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'' No. 166 (2001)


Valiant Comics

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Archer & Armstrong ''Archer & Armstrong'' is a superhero duo in the Valiant Comics universe. The two were originally created by writer and artist Barry Windsor-Smith and introduced in their own self-titled comic book series in 1992. After Acclaim Entertainment bough ...
'' No. 0, 1–6, 8, 10–12 (1992–93) *''
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'' No. 1 (two pages only), 6–8 (1992–93) *''
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'' #1–10 (Valiant, 1991–92) *''
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'' No. 0, 1 (1992) *''
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'' No. 1 (1992)


Other publishers

*''Barry Windsor-Smith: Storyteller'' #1–9 (Dark Horse, 1996–97) *''
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'' No. 0, 1–6, ''Giant-Size'' No. 1 (Malibu, 1994–95) *''Wildstorm Rising'' No. 1 (Image, 1995) *''Vampirella #9 "The Boy Who Loved Trees"'' (Warren, 1971)


Books and compilations

*''Weapon X''. New York: Marvel, 1994. . Republished as ''Wolverine: Weapon X''. New York: Marvel, 2009. With Jim Novak. * ''Barry Windsor-Smith's The Freebooters, Young Gods, The ParadoX-Man''. Kingston, New York: Windsor-Smith Studio, 1995(?). * ''Barry Windsor-Smith: Storyteller'' volume 1, number 1. Milwaukie, Oregon: Dark Horse, 1996. * ''Barry Windsor-Smith: Storyteller'' volume 1, number 2. Milwaukie, Oregon: Dark Horse, 1996. * ''Adastra in Africa''. Seattle: Fantagraphics, 1999. * ''Opus'' volume 1. Seattle: Fantagraphics, 1999. * ''Opus'' volume 2. Seattle: Fantagraphics, 2000. * ''Young Gods & Friends''. Seattle: Fantagraphics, 2003. * with Diana Schutz. ''The Freebooters Collection''. Seattle: Fantagraphics, 2005. * with Kerry Gammill ''et al.''. ''Untitled''. New York: Marvel, 2009. * ''Monsters''. Seattle: Fantagraphics, 2021.


References


External links


Official website

Barry Windsor-Smith Checklist
The complete incomplete Barry Windsor-Smith Checklist *
Barry Windsor-Smith
at Mike's Amazing World of Comics

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