ANDY MURRAY WON WIMBLEDON! The player, the first British player to win Wimbledon since Virginia Wade in 1977, bashed his way to a straight sets victory yesterday over Novak Djokovic. But whilst he is technically a British player, artist Gary Erskine, colourist Yel Zamor and Scotland’s Sunday Mail newspaper have teamed up to make a subtle point about where Murray actually hails from…

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Ha! Yes, alright, we get the idea. He belongs to you first, Scotland. How long must that crowd have taken to draw?!

As shared via Erskine’s twitter page, he also created a cover which paid homage to Alex Ross’ iconic image of the Man of Steel, although ultimately it wasn’t used for Sunday.

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Via Gary Erskine’s twitter page! 

3 COMMENTS

  1. Pedant’s corner: that second image is not a homage to “Alex Ross’ iconic image of the Man of Steel”. It’s a homage to Joe Shuster’s iconic image of the Man of Steel, as first appeared on Superman #1 in June 1939.

  2. Bulent.

    You are quite right regards the credit but Twitter only affords 140 characters! I am familiar with Alex Ross’ homage to the original Joe Schuster version but referenced both the figure and perspective from Ross’ piece as we needed a more stylised realism. A similar reference was done with a recent Mondo poster. The editorial decision by the Sunday Mail was to focus squarely on Andy Murray [rather than a Wimbledon aerial shot] and I believe they made the correct call on that!

    The final design is another classic Superman pose [of course!]

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