Marvel Pixel Art Tribute Charts Superhero Evolution from 1939 to 2022
The Marvel Comics' shared universe is one of the longest running media franchises in world history, remaining as popular and beloved as ever more than 80 years after it's creation, and a new piece of fan art catalogues all the major heroes, villains, and gods of the Marvel Universe throughout its decades of evolution. Dan Hainsworth is the dedicated Marvel fan who took 2 full years to create a pixelated version of most major Marvel characters, in the order they first appeared in the comics, ending with a massive pixelated poster celebrating the cosmic history of Marvel.
Fans of the Marvel Comics universe make gorgeous fan art of their favorite characters all the time, but it is certainly another level of dedication to spend two full years creating such a masterpiece of Marvel's evolution. Dan Hainsworth's art is incredibly fun to look at, but it also provides some fascinating insights into the evolution of Marvel's character design over the years, with character designs getting increasingly more complex and showing an obvious increase in Marvel's representation of racial and gender diversity over the decades.
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Marvel Comics began in 1939 and was at the time known as Timely Comics, which is where Marvel's first ever heroes were printed, the iconic android Human Torch, Angel, Namor the Sub-Mariner, and Ka-Zar, all of who can be seen as the first 4 characters in Hainsworth's pixelated tribute. After nearly 20 years as Timely, and then Atlas Comics, the publication became known as Marvel Comics in 1961 around the same time that Stan Lee revolutionized superhero comics and introduced Marvel's first heroic family The Fantastic Four. Hainsworth's awesome 8-bit style art
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