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Art For Art’s Sake

20. May 2012

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Pictures…. yeah…. Margaux Motin (author of the lovely looking, very funny sounding But I Really Wanted To Be An Anthropologist) cover for Fluide.G mag – from the SelfMadeHero blog: The first thing he’s posted since October 2011…. Paul Pope’s Jedi from 2011: Just one from a series of Chris Weston commissions over at 2000AD Online: Mick [...]

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Alter Ego art show… the pics!

20. May 2012

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The Alter Ego show finished on Wednesday – and from all reports it was a bit good. Seven artists involved: Waste, Cottonmouth (RichT) , Guy McKinley, Klingatron, Robert Ball, Smug, and WJC looking at the ideas of being someone else, hero, villain, whatever…. the artwork is over at the Alter Ego Facebook page. But I figured you could cope with a [...]

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Avengers Disassembled

19. May 2012

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Silly, cute, funny…. Avengers Disassembled by Junaid Chundrigar. (Via Superpunch) And if you want to see more – character designs here. Love the expression on Black Widow’s face.

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David Lloyd has a lovely little something for you at Kapow….

19. May 2012

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From David Lloyd’s FB: “I’m at Kapow this weekend. I could put a link here for that, but you’ve only got to Google that event – power-wasting though that is – to go there, and I want to use a pic here to point you to what I’m proud to be previewing there – a [...]

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12 Dessins par jour/12 Drawings a day

17. May 2012

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Denis Chapon created twelve drawings per day between the years of 2008 and 2012; each batch of twelve drawings equated to one whole second of screen time in terms of animation. After three years of this labour he edited them together into this rather cool short animation which, as well as being an enjoyable short [...]

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From our continental correspondent – Francois Schuiten’s Mood of the Past

15. May 2012

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François Schuiten’s never been one for straightforward comic work. His long-running series, Les Cités Obscures (with Benoît Peeters) always involved intricate imagery combined with almost labyrinthine storytelling. Just doing a comic doesn’t seem to be enough of a challenge for Schuiten. Recently, Schuiten has been in the news with new productions that are perfect examples [...]

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Art For Art’s Sake

13. May 2012

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Comics…. Internet…. Art? We think so…. Craig Thompson does a little of Mike Mignola’s Hellboy (Via Aw Yeah Comics) Jonathan Edwards has this “Happy Hour” print for sale. David Hitchcock‘s Batman from many years ago: “Way back when (around 12 years ago I reckon) I did this victorian Batman, if was a for an idea [...]

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Great Comics That Never Happened….

13. May 2012

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Over at Comics Alliance Chris Sims has been putting together some great cover mashups, complete with guest art and plotlines. I meant to link to them before, but never managed. But here’s the latest…. Art by Kerry Callan, and here’s the plot by Chris Sims: For years, the Riddler has been one of Batman’s deadliest foes, [...]

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Sendak – picture tributes…

12. May 2012

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Maurice Sendak (1928-2012), another genius lost… Tom at The Comics Reporter had an excellent roundup, but here’s just a little of the pictures I’ve seen this week: (Paul Harrison Davies – part of a collection of tributes at The Mooks Tumblr) (Dan Hipp) (Evan Doc Shaner) (Sarah McIntyre) (Fred Blunt) (Mike Maihack) And Maihack’s piece [...]

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Nao Of Brown…

12. May 2012

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The Nao Of Brown by Glyn Dillon is out in September 2012 from SelfMadeHero. It looks rather special “Things aren’t so black and white after all.” “Nao Brown is ‘Hafu’: half Japanese, half English. She’s 28 and suffers with OCD, but not the hand-washing, overly tidy type that people joke about. Nao suffers from violent [...]

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Badger animated documentary

9. May 2012

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Regular readers will already be familiar with a self-published series of comics featuring Howard Hardiman‘s Badger, the poor little depressed creature that we’ve come to love for the emotional content of the tales and for the beauty of the artwork. Filmmakers Annie Kwan and Helen Omand have been working on a short animated documentary about [...]

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Kinky and Cosy at Angoulême

8. May 2012

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Okay, I admit this very short video is in French, with Dutch subtitles, but it’s a live-action version of Nix’s Kinky and Cosy making an appearance on stage at Angoulême and frankly, language barriers aside, it’s too funny not to bung it up here to to share (plus it is very short!): And, as Wim blogged [...]

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The art of the background artist

7. May 2012

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Over on Audrey Kawasaki’s LiveJournal she extolls an often overlooked yet painstaking, time-consuming aspect of creating animation for film – the background artist’s work. While the moving characters in the foreground take most of our attention (as indeed they are meant to, after all) the background details are often just that, a background, which is [...]

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Freddy Mercury?

7. May 2012

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Oh, this is rather brilliant, and rather silly… Colleen Coover has posted this. Basically a couple of years ago Marvel staffer Steve Bunche put a Marvel try-out page up online. His comment: “While this guy would never have gotten work in a professional comic as a penciller, I have to admire his talent for creating an instant [...]

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Where Have All The Illustrators Gone – A Reminder….

6. May 2012

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That’s Adrian Tomine’s cover to Pynchon’s Inherent Vice. Here’s the Independent article decrying modern illustration. And here’s what Dan Franklin of Cape had to say…. (emphasis mine) “I think a) it’s fashion”, he says trenchantly. “And b) there aren’t that many great illustrators. It’s rare you can come across someone who can draw. Even when [...]

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