'I sent material first, and based solely upon a pleasant return note from Stan 's assistant Linda Fite, my pal and me were at Marvel's doorstep in the blink of an eye.' Largely due to his Jack Kirbyesque style, Marvel Comics Editor Stan Lee gave him the job of drawing both the cover and story of X-Men No. in summer 1968 with fellow artist Steve Parkhouse for meetings at Marvel in New York. Windsor-Smith produced his first published work in 19 – single page 'Powerhouse Pinups' of Marvel Comics characters for Terrific and Fantastic comics, titles published by Odhams Press that included licensed Marvel Comics reprints for the UK market. He attended East Ham Technical College for three years, earning degrees in Industrial Design and Illustration. He displayed artistic abilities at an early age, and his parents supported in pursuing an education in the arts. Early life īarry Windsor-Smith was born Barry Smith on in Forest Gate, a working class area in the East End of London. Windsor-Smith released his subsequent work through Fantagraphics, 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. He subsequently created an oversized anthology series, Barry Windsor-Smith: Storyteller through Dark Horse Comics, though it was cancelled after nine issues. He also provided art for the WildStorm Productions/ Image Comics storyline ' Wildstorm Rising', though he later came to regret that work. Rune's adventures included a crossover with Conan that Windsor-Smith wrote and illustrated. After leaving Valiant in 1993, Windsor-Smith did work through a number of publishers, including co-creating the vampiric character Rune with Chris Ulm, which was published as part of Malibu Comics' Ultraverse.

He was also the chief designer of the ' Unity' crossover storyline.

His other noted Marvel work included a 1984 ' Thing' story in Marvel Fanfare, the 'Lifedeath' and 'Lifedeath II' stories with writer Chris Claremont that focused on the de-powered Storm in The Uncanny X-Men, as well as the 1984 Machine Man limited series with Herb Trimpe and Tom DeFalco.Īfter leaving Marvel, Windsor-Smith became the creative director and lead artist at Valiant Comics, where he illustrated the company's revival of the 1960s Gold Key Comics character Solar, and created the original characters Archer and Armstrong. He attained note working on Marvel Comics' Conan the Barbarian from 1970 to 1973, and for his work on the character Wolverine, particularly the 1991 ' Weapon X' story arc. Barry Windsor-Smith (born Barry Smith, ) is a British comic book illustrator and painter whose best-known work has been produced in the United States.

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