El Libro Del Destino

From Spanish blog El Libro Del Destino, the story behind this Colossus commission by Rick Leonardi:

http://ellibrodeldestino.blogspot.com/2011/12/commission-by-rick-colossus-leonardi.html

Update! -- Blog reader and X-Pert Ryan from Uncannyxmen.net informs us that the image from yesterday's post was taken from a Dark Phoenix poster.

Here's the updated post:

http://unpublishedxmen.blogspot.com/2013/06/rick-leonardi-phoenix.html

  And here's the published image:

Rick Leonardi Phoenix

Apologies for the poor scan - I'm not sure what the origin of this Dark Phoenix image is, but the art is by Rick Leonardi and Terry Austin.

Update! -- Blog reader and X-Pert Ryan from Uncannyxmen.net informs us that this image was taken from a Dark Phoenix poster.  Here's the published image:

Rick Leonardi Week - New Mutants 38

James Henry, a fellow connoisseur of unpublished X-Men art, was kind enough to send this scan of his recently acquired New Mutants 38 cover art.  This cover by Rick Leonardi and Bill Sienkiewicz is similar in concept to the published cover by Art Adams.  Along with the published cover, I've included the cover art for New X-Men 27 by Paco Medina - a homage to the original.

Sixth Line-Up

I have a soft spot for Rick Leonardi's artwork, and this particular X-Men roster, most likely because this was the era when I started reading X-Men in the late 1980's.  This image comes from The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Master Edition, and more team rosters can be found here:

http://unpublishedxmen.blogspot.com/search/label/Line-up