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Archives - "The Visionary Life of Barry Windsor-Smith"

May 21, 202622 min · 4,301 words

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And now a reposting of this rambling and too brief of the life of Barry Windsor-Smith, one of the most talented and unique artists of the 70's and 80's.

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To do so, he had to confirm he was a genius in his field, that being comic books, to the U.S. Immigration Office to get his green card, as the standards were very strict at the time, being under the Nixon administration.
As a result of these conditions, he crafted what he called his long-drawn-out style, as the slope-forwards forced him to elongate his figure work.
Windsor-Smith was given that status of registered genius by the U.S. court, and he joked, to this day, his art he submitted is in a file in the U.S. Immigration Office, along with his registration as a registered genius of a comic artist.

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