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V For Vendetta – The Italian Job?

1. July 2011

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Okay, maybe not a new V For Vendetta by David Lloyd, but a really sharp bit of art by Luigi Sinis he calls V For Vendetta II (Italian Mission): From Luigi Sinis’ Facebook.

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Billets S’il Vous Plaît

30. June 2011

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Following on from the cool looking The Archiver yesterday, here’s another neat piece of CG animation for Artfx, this time by Elodie Hickson, Remi Julien, Tristan Jeanbourquin, Lucie Lavergne and Oscar Aveline: Billets S’il Vous Plaît sees a couple of families trying to dodge paying their fares (and is it just me or does the [...]

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The Archiver

29. June 2011

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The Archiver is a short but very slick and cool looking science fiction CG work by Thomas Obrecht, Guillaume Berthoumieu and Marc Menneglier for Artfx 2011 The Archiver from Artfx on Vimeo. And I’m quite pleased to see they have also uploaded a short making of video behind the animation – nice touch: The Archiver [...]

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Moe… simplicity in black and white….

28. June 2011

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Moe By Piotr Nowacki Moe came to me in the same package as Tainted (review here) and where Tainted was ambitious yet flawed, Moe is simplicity in black and white…. a landscape A5 comic with a simple line, simple characters and a mischievous sense of fun, alongside a not insubstantial amount of style. Something in Moe grabbed [...]

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Geoff Grandfield

27. June 2011

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Will Morris put me on to artist and designer Geoff Grandfield’s site – it isn’t comics art, per se, but I imagine anyone who enjoys the visual arts will enjoy a browse through some of Geoff’s work on his site (such as his Mount Actmore, above, or Ball & Chain Gown, below)), there are some [...]

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Art For Art’s Sake…..

26. June 2011

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A comics, Internet, pictures cocktail…… Lets kick off with a little Brendan McCarthy…. always a good way to start anything: From the forthcoming Paper Science 5, Geof Banyard‘s Tea-themed pin-up. Perfect festival message for the season…. Very nice David Hitchcock cover art to the second volume of Madam Samurai (due out in the next couple of [...]

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Arnold Roth is blogging…

25. June 2011

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Well, maybe not blogging exactly, more like sticking up a cartoon every few days….. but hey, this is Arnold Roth, he’s been making art for 60 years now, his list of accomplishments is huge, his cartoons have appeared in The New Yorker, Playboy, Sports Illustrated, Esquire, Punch, National Lampoon and so many more. He worked [...]

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Stephen Collins gets topical…. or maybe not

25. June 2011

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Hey, it was topical when it was published in Propect magazine. As Stephen Collins says at his blog: “Have you heard the news about Osama Bin Laden getting got? I’m so on it with my month-old topical satire. This one’s a bit old now cos I shouldn’t really post them until Prospect magazine’s off the [...]

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What’s the power of Thor? …… 16

22. June 2011

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That gag and many more are to be found in a cracking Muppets/ Thor mashup by Canaan Grall done as part of 24 hour comics day: “So I decided to try my hand at the 24 hour challenge this year. I didn’t quite make it, 15 pages inked and the last 9 pencilled. But they’re [...]

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The Borrower Arrietty

20. June 2011

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(trouble finding an English language move poster so here’s the French one for Arrietty, (c) Studio Ghibli) It’s no secret to regular readers of the blog that I’m a huge lover of all forms of animation, so when I got the chance to see the new (well, to us, Japan had it last year!) Studio [...]

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Art For Art’s Sake

19. June 2011

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Comics, Internet, Pictures, look and enjoy….. Latest Paul Pope: “My latest screenprint– a 3 color print for Blues Explosion. Jon Spencer sent me a bunch of hot video clips of Raquel Welch from 1969, which inspired this. The Beguiling in Toronto has a few of these, signed, for sale.” And whilst we’re mentioning Pope, Alison at [...]

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Francesco Francavilla’s Doctor Who art

18. June 2011

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Francesco Francavilla‘s been blogging his artwork responses to the new series of Doctor Who as it aired in the States… gorgeous yes? (Episode 1: The Impossible Astronaut) (Episode 2: Day Of The Moon) (Episode 3: The Curse Of The Black Spot) (Episode 4: The Doctor’s Wife) (Episode 5: The Rebel Flesh) (Episode 6: The Almost [...]

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Circus Lil by O’Connell and Elwick

18. June 2011

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The last time we saw Lil, the very quiet, but very determined little girl as documented by Paul O’Connell and Laurence Elwick, was in the pages of Sound Of Drowning  #14. Then she was heading off to space, in the early part of an adventure that O’Connell and Elwick were hoping to continue in a [...]

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Rian Hughes’ Tales From Beyond Science….

15. June 2011

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I completely missed any announcement on this – although a quick Google doesn’t turn anything up, so maybe this is new news? Anyway, the quite beautiful art above is part of the upcoming book from Rian Hughes collecting his Tales from Beyond Science series from 2000AD way, way back in ’92-’94. The series, illustrated by Hughes [...]

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WJC: praise from on high, original art, and a lovely competition…… (UPDATED)

12. June 2011

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Warwick Johnson Cadwell / WJC is a firm favourite here at the FPI blog, even though I only heard of him for the first time in Jan 2010s New British Comics #2 and Birdsong/Songbird in March 2010. Both were great examples of a genuine talent, and one that was soon picked up by a lot [...]

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