Marvelis celebrating the creative minds behind their mega-franchise of film and TV, with new variant covers featuring gorgeously crafted artwork for theMarvel Cinematic Universe’smost iconic characters and designs. The variant series spotlights a few of theMCU’s versions of their superheroesthat fans fell in love with. The stunning art comes from Marvel Studios’ Head of Visual Development Ryan Meinerding.
As revealed by Marvel, Meinerding’s variant series willfeature the MCU versions of characters including Thor, Spider-Man, Hulk, Vision, Moon Knight, Thanos, and the Avengers, in celebrating of the upcoming release of the bookMarvel Studios: The Art of Ryan Meinerding.
Marvel has promised there more variants from Ryan Meinerding to be revealed, so covers formore of MCU’s strongest superheroescan be expected soon. The covers commemorate Meinerding’s career and the characters he helped visually define as they entered the MCU.
With the wide reach and scope of Marvel’s movies and Disney+ series, the designs created by Meinerding and the other visual artists at Marvel Studios have helped solidify the on-screen versions of these characters
The heroes of Marvel Comics are beautifully realized in Meinerding’s character designs and creative concept art, making their transition to film and TV smooth and maintaining respect for their original comic book depictions. Spectacularly re-imagining the comic characters to make the leap from the page to both the big and small screen with ease,Meinerding’s art helps Marvel’s Multiverse come to life.Of the first eight covers released, the wraparound variant forAvengers Assemble#1 features the most characters in a breathtaking group shot with forteen characters, including Black Panther, Scarlet Witch, The Wasp, and more looking prepared for battle.
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With the wide reach and scope of Marvel’s movies and Disney+ series, the designs created by Meinerding and the other visual artists at Marvel Studios have helped solidify the on-screen versions of these characters, as popular culture knows and will remember them. Sometimesthe MCU even surpasses the original comicdepictions of the characters, at least in terms of how well-known which version is. Though the Marvel Studios productions wouldn’t exist without the brilliant artists and writers creating the comic book source material, the MCU visual development team has helped raise the status of many legendary characters.
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Ryan Meinerding’s Invaluable Contributions
The Marvel Cinematic Universe has also gone the other way and helped inspire Marvel Comics stories based on concepts or characters from the movies and TV as well.Fan-favorite characters like Darcy Lewis, Scarlet Scarab, Madisynn,Loki’s OB and Mobius, and more have gone from MCU appearances to being official comic book characters. As the MCU gets older, with sixteen years of storytelling already under its belt,many people’s first exposure to Marvel Comics characters come from the popular films and series, and they’ve created many new readers and Marvel fans over the years.
From being an illustrator on the original Iron Man film todesigning Spider-Man’s MCU suit, Meinerding’s strong career with Marvel Studios has been a defining factor in the entire universe and its expansion to a greater cinematic multiverse. With more variant covers celebrating Meinerding’s art in anticipation of his art book on the way, even more of his iconic MCU superhero designs will be featured in the coming months. AsMarveluses their variant series to showcase the art and designs of theMarvel Cinematic Universe, Ryan Meinerding’s stunning work is given the spotlight it deserves for comic fans.
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Ryan Meinerding’s Marvel Studios Variant Coverswill be released now through the end of September, 2024 from Marvel Comics.
Marvel Cinematic Universe
The Marvel Cinematic Universe is a multimedia superhero franchise that began in 2008 with Paramount’s Iron Man starring Robert Downey Jr. The franchise quickly grew in popularity, with Disney eventually buying out Marvel Entertainment in 2009. The MCU consists of dozens of movies and TV shows, most notably Avengers: Endgame, WandaVision, and Loki.
