Archive | Art and animation RSS feed for this section

Electroshock therapy!

10. January 2012

0 Comments

Darren at the Genre Files points us to this fabulous short animation in French (with English subtitles) from the Ecole Supérieure des Métiers Artistiques‘ Hugo Jackson, Pascal Chandelier, Valentin Michel, Bastien Morteleque and Elliot Maren. In time honoured tradition a hapless dweeb has a serious accident that gifts him with superpowers – he determines to [...]

Continue reading...

The Flame Alphabet

9. January 2012

0 Comments

There’s a bit of a buzz among some of the science fiction reading crowd at the moment over the new book by Ben Marcus, The Flame Alphabet. As with the well received Pontypool it posits a situation where one of the most uniquely developed faculties that make humans what they are – complex language – [...]

Continue reading...

Art For Art’s Sake….

8. January 2012

0 Comments

More art from that there Internet thingy….. Hunt Emerson commission from his Facebook page: “(done) for Mike Hardcastle’s excellent Steampunk and Phenomena website, this time of Victorian-era explorer and intrepid traveller PERCY FAWCETT. He disappeared in mysterious circumstances in Brazil – full story on the website in a day or two.” Whilst the rest of us [...]

Continue reading...

Missed it – Cindy & Biscuit make a perfect late Christmas present…

7. January 2012

0 Comments

Yep, missed this over the Christmas break – Dan White has a full (and typically wonderful) Cindy & Biscuit comic up at The Mindless Ones website. Gorgeous, cute, sad, Christmassy in a Calvin & Hobbes fashion…. 8 pages to love, here’s the first three. Hopefully there’s a comic coming soon from White, but why wait [...]

Continue reading...

Dr Seuss doing Batman?

7. January 2012

0 Comments

After having done 50+ pages of his Call Of Cthulhu (For Beginning Readers) mashing up Dr Seuss’ style and H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu mythos? Dr FaustusAU has taken on various Gotham City residents a la Seuss as well, with Riddler, Catwoman and Two-Face in addition to Bats and The Joker above. (Via Buzzfeed) And on the Cthulhu [...]

Continue reading...

Pingu’s The Thing

6. January 2012

0 Comments

This fab wee claymation animation not only condenses John Carpenter’s The Thing – a true modern classic of horror cinema – into just 60 seconds, it does it with the cast of Pingu! It even has the iconic scenes like the alien chest snapping closed on the doctor’s arms and that extending head into scuttling [...]

Continue reading...

Tatsumi

4. January 2012

0 Comments

Tatsumi Directed by Eric Khoo Zhao Wei Films/The Match Factory Singaporean director and former comic creator Eric Khoo debuted his homage to legendary Japanese comics creator Yoshihiro Tatsumi at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival last spring, an animated feature which draws largely on Tatsumi’s much-acclaimed A Drifting Life (published in English by the good folks [...]

Continue reading...

Animated Steranko

4. January 2012

0 Comments

Kerry Callen animates some classic comics covers, including one of my all time favourites (and probably one of the best comics covers ever) Steranko’s iconic Nick Fury 60s superspy cover (via the Comic Cast):

Continue reading...

The Moomins save another comic artist….

2. January 2012

0 Comments

“One of the happiest memories of my life, discovering Moomin comics for the first time (I will love D+Q forever for publishing the complete strip collections). Around that time my work was going nowhere, I couldn’t fit into any mainstream or ‘industry’ and my personal stuff was painfully uninspired and derivative. For a month or [...]

Continue reading...

Art For Art’s Sake

1. January 2012

0 Comments

Happy New Year everyone. Holiday time still, so here’s some art…. Philip Bond’s Wired World (one day a reprint will come….) seeing in the new year 1990. (Via Warren Ellis) Borrowed from Wim – “What better way to start off the new year with a seasonal cartoon by Luc Cromheecke, featuring our all-time favourite alien, Plunk [...]

Continue reading...

Happy New Year!

31. December 2011

0 Comments

From everyone here at The FPI, have a very Happy New Year. See you in 2012.

Continue reading...

Art For Art’s Sake – Death special…..

31. December 2011

0 Comments

I could make some sort of end of the year type link to Neil Gaiman and Mike Dringenberg’s Death character. But truth be told, I was following one link to the Adi Granov Death picture on Comic Art Fans, and next thing I know, I’d lost half an hour and had seen some beautiful pieces… [...]

Continue reading...

David Bailie’s 2000AD Advent Calendar

31. December 2011

0 Comments

Saw this a little late for Christmas – but hey, David Bailie’s seasonal entry works just as well as a New Year thing…..

Continue reading...

Steve Bell’s best of year….

31. December 2011

0 Comments

Over at the Guardian website, Steve Bell choses 6 of his best from 2011. My fave…. Lowry Crapper (Manchester announces the loss of 20,000 public sector jobs – Jan 2011):

Continue reading...

…. a little late roundup of Christmas art….

31. December 2011

0 Comments

You know, that’s the problem with Christmas and artwork and The Internet …. just as you switch off for the holidays, people go ahead and put up a load of great, great artwork. So it was either wait till next year or do a few late art posts. Late art posts won the toss: Dan [...]

Continue reading...