Lucio Parrillo’s Red Sonja Painted Covers: Colorful & Sensous

Lucio Parrillo

Lucio Parrillo, arguably one of the top-rated comic book artists in the world, has provided some of the best (and sexiest) Red Sonja variants beloved by collectors. Lucio Parrillo balances a vivid array of colors against highlights and shadows to capture a dramatic scene with a keen sense of depth through masterful use of scale, foreground and background. His subject – in this case Red Sonja – is frequently poised to engage an opponent – typically male – or as she exits the engagement victorious, her opponent dispatched and his blood staining the earth or snow, perhaps his head held aloft. Parrillo’s covers are rarely static, flat or one-dimensional.

We present to you Lucio Parrillo’s best Red Sonja comic book covers. Some are chosen because of his masterful use of color, of shadows and highlights, or his depiction of our favorite chain-mail warrior.