Along with writer Thomas, Smith adapted the Howard short stories "The Frost-Giant's Daughter", "Tower of the Elephant", "Rogues in the House", and "Red Nails". At first drawing in a manner lifted from Jack Kirby, within a couple of years he developed a unique style for comics at the time, borrowing from pre-raphaelites such as Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti (whose influence would saturate Windsor-Smith's artwork even more in later years). Initially credited as Barry Smith, he rose to prominence in the early 1970s as the original penciller for Marvel Comics' adaptation of Robert E. The resulting pages secured Windsor-Smith further work with Marvel, even though he was sent back to England within the year as he had no work permit. A suitably impressed Roy Thomas gave him the job of drawing an issue of X-Men, but with no studio and having been kicked out of his hotel, Windsor-Smith was forced to do the work sitting on park benches.
Barry Windsor-Smith (formerly known as Barry Smith), born May 25th, 1949 in Forest Gate, London, is a British comic book illustrator and painter whose best known for his work has been produced in the United States.Īfter doing some work for British publishers (notably drawing pin-ups of Marvel characters for the Odhams Power Comics line) in 1968, Windsor-Smith travelled to New York and presented himself at the offices of Marvel Comics.
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