Art pour l’art: tout ce qui est beau du monde de la bande dessinée cette semaine Ok, that’s it for my weak French….. Dave Taylor’s Live series… brilliant. 4 here, more at his DesPop site: Beautiful Bone image by MAX (probably best known here for Peter Pank?), as reported by Jeff Smith’s site: Luke Pearson: “All the princesses - Done for Once Upon a [...]
Continue reading...5. May 2012
I was prepping tomorrow’s Art For Art’s Sake post and happened to come across this…. Mr X by Paul Rivoche (via Comic Alliance) Which put me in the mood for more Mr X… so much to choose from…. and the more I look the more I can’t decide. And you must understand here that I’m [...]
Continue reading...5. May 2012
There’s something big happening in Dredd right now, something I’ll get around to telling you about in a few hours when I do a read/review over the FA Cup (Edit – later in the day and I’m running way late.. tomorrow, tomorrow). But the cover this week tells you all you need to know….. They’re [...]
Continue reading...5. May 2012
Sometimes the simplest of things can send you on some huge nostalgia trip…. here’s a piece by Kalle Malloy I saw on Oh Yeah Comics… And that’s all it took to have me right back in ’85, walking into Nostalgia & Comics for my once every two months visit. Mom and Dad would nick off [...]
Continue reading...4. May 2012
D is a funny short animation from the Chiguire Animation Studios, in which an errant letter D has a bit of a disagreement with a rather fine-nibbed fountain pen across the desk and pages: “D” – animated short film from Closed Eye Visuals | DP on Vimeo.
Continue reading...29. April 2012
This has been percolating over the Internet for a while, but a little delving revealed some details… Alter Ego is a new exhibition show running 7 days at the Red Bull Studios in London. Seven artists involved: Waste, Cottonmouth (RichT) , Guy McKinley, Klingatron, Robert Ball, Smug, and WJC looking at the ideas of being someone else, [...]
Continue reading...29. April 2012
Pretty pictures from T’Internet this week….. Philip Bond on Flickr: “…..inspired by Toth & Kurtzman’s “F-86 Sabre Jet“ I revisited the 20 year old “Hot Triggers” strip from Deadline. there were originally two more planes in the background but they were even more wonkily drawn than this one, so this is the best that could be salvaged [...]
Continue reading...29. April 2012
Well, a few details, and some art for the gallery exhibition to commemorate that date beloved by Star Wars fans the world over….The Hang Gang and Leeds Alternative Comics present a Star Wars experience….. ….. and a few sneak peeks of the art and exhibits on show…. All the art will be available to purchase [...]
Continue reading...28. April 2012
Love this slightly silly, mostly clever play on the form by Michael Hacker… “A short comic story for an exhibition called Aus dem Mistkübel (Out of the Trash Bin) curated by Kabinett für Wort und Bild. March 1 – march 31 2012, Museumsquartier Vienna“. (Via Drawn) Full size version at Hacker’s site, where you can delight over [...]
Continue reading...28. April 2012
I have an boundless fascination for the process of creating art, much of it to do with the fact that it’s a magical act for someone with zero artistic talent as myself. Which is why a good process post always goes down a treat.. So here’s John Welding walking us through the creation of his [...]
Continue reading...28. April 2012
Sam Hiti gives us a gentler side of Vader (Via Drawn):
Continue reading...26. April 2012
I had no idea that comics creator and illustrator Rutu Modan (the acclaimed Exit Wounds and the Jamiliti collection), along with fellow member of the Israeli comics collective Actus Tragicus Batia Kolton, planned an animated series called Goody Two Shoes which would have been about a group of teenage girls in the swinging 60s. Sadly [...]
Continue reading...25. April 2012
The Submarine Channel has a video Skype interview with the excellent Shaun Tan online, cutting between Shaun and scenes from his very fine award-winning animation as well as talking about how he is trying to learn about screenwriting, specifically because he is looking to a big screen adaptation of his own very well received graphic [...]
Continue reading...22. April 2012
The What Not art blog is a regular source of great art from some great comic artists, but some weeks the contributors really grab hold of a subject a go for it. Mike Oeming chose Literature a few weeks back, here’s a few corkers…. Philip Bond: “Boot Boys was one of a stream of pulpy [...]
Continue reading...22. April 2012
Internetty comic art goodness for your Sunday viewing pleasure: Spleenal (of the very funny book of the same name) has a Watchmen moment… Kevin Nowlan’s Dr Strange. Do love Kevin Nowlan’s art, always have….. (Via Aw Yeah Comics) Delirium by Dustin Nguyen (Via F-Yeah Neil Gaiman) Death by Dustin Nguyen (Via Comic Art Appreciation) Gorgeous [...]
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6. May 2012
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