In a New York Post interview, comic book artist Tim Sale describes his work as the man behind the artwork on Heroes, the hit NBC drama about a world in which people struggle to come to terms with their emerging superhuman abilities, including a painter whose brightly colored canvases depict a horrific future (which, as the example at left shows, centers around the fate of a cheerleader with mysterious invulnerability). “The art drives the narrative much more than I thought it would have,” Sales admits. “The point of the artwork is for it to be eerily familiar to the viewer – ‘Where have I seen that before?'”
One interesting aspect of the process is that Sales is colorblind, so all the vibrant hues in the “paintings” (and the comic book within the fictional story) are added to his original drawings by computer before the artwork is printed on canvas.