
The acclaimed singer-songwriter Daniel Johnston passed away in September 2019. Aside from being a pioneer of "outsider music," Johnston was also a visual artist. The Contemporary Austin recently opened a new exhibit to posthumously celebrate Johnston's drawings, and to mark the occasion, DC Comics has announced that it will publish several variant covers featuring Johnston-drawn illustrations of Batman, Superman, and — perhaps most fittingly, given Johnston's oeuvre — Jack Kirby's New Gods. — Read the rest