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New in The Phoenix…..

18. February 2012

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Upcoming in The Phoenix Comic… sometime… soon (ish) Rob Davis: “here’s a glimpse at a Baltic folk tale I’ve drawn for The Phoenix comic“, no news of when yet…. Dave Shelton’s Good Dog Bad Dog 2: Double Identity: starts in issue 13 of The Phoenix: Plus Nick Abadzis’ Cora’s breakfast: … and McIntyre & Reeve:

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I Think About Whitney….

18. February 2012

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Over on Top Shelf 2.0, Liv Strömquist‘s I Think About Whitney…. 8 pages, all good:

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Ride of Passage

17. February 2012

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Ride of Passage is a charming short film from The Animation Workshop in Copenhagen, and created by Christian Bøving-Andersen, Casper Michelsen, Eva Lee Wallberg, Tina Lykke Thorn, Søren B. Nørbæk, Allan Lønskov, Jakob Kousholt and David F. Otzen, telling the tale of a diminutive young would-be hunter, Toki, who sets out to catch the largest [...]

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Art For Art’s Sake

12. February 2012

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Sunday. Comics. Art. Internet…. Mick Mcmahon posts up some Roy Of The Rovers pages and apologise for them (no need, no need). They’re from the monthly Roy Of The Rovers redo from the 90s- I wrote more on that here. James Hance‘s Tank Girl/Star Wars mash-up. (Via Kardwell) Shouldn’t really need to tell you who [...]

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Stephen Collins… Time To Change

12. February 2012

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Recent Stephen Collins work, as part of the very important “Time To Change” campaign that highlights mental health issues:

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Sim on the style of comics…. strips and books

11. February 2012

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Boy, that Moment Of Cerebus does keep delivering the goods, eh? This and this from Dave Sim’s Glamourpuss #2 (2008) Said it before, will say it again, one of the finest artists out there, even when, as here, deconstructing and copying someone else’s style for his own purpose.

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Nostalgic for those indie comics of yore?

11. February 2012

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Then look no further. For those of us of a certain age, and a certain preference in our comic reading during the 80s, these will be wonderful. The Adventures Of Mr Phil Tumblr is “A Visual History Of Indie Comics … on shuffle“. And it’s already thrown up ads I remember so fondly, for books [...]

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Trese & Friends….

11. February 2012

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Trese, by Budjette Tan and Kajo Baldisimo, is now up to Volume 4. I looked at Volumes 1-3 here, and the review of Volume 4 went up yesterday. This is what I said of those first 3 volumes (and yes, it holds true for Volume 4 as well): “Trese is a supernatural series starring a female investigator [...]

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Drunken Batman gets animated

10. February 2012

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Several months back I blogged about Spencer Scott Holmes and Ryan Dunigan’s Drunken Batman video (see here). I notice on their Vimeo channel that they now have animated versions of the Drunk Knight to check out: Drunk Batman and Robin Animated Short 1- Smart Phone from Spencer Scott Holmes on Vimeo. Drunk Batman and Robin [...]

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Art meets SciFi

9. February 2012

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Irene at the cool Tor publishing science fiction blog has a fab crop of images from art history and then fantasy and science fictional versions inspired by them, including this Dali-inspired Wolverine work by Paolo Rivera, riffing on persistence of memory: And the famous Dali original (I think this was the first ‘proper’ art print [...]

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Vanallemeersch and Nobrow bring you a BIG Mother….

8. February 2012

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Big Mother 2 By Sam Vanallemeersch Nobrow Press I’m just not the right person to appreciate this. I’m a comics guy, and my art tastes veer strongly to the sort of art that looks great but does so in service to a story. So basically Big Mother, as an A3 collection of artwork by Belgian [...]

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Art For Art’s Sake – 24 Hour Comic Special

5. February 2012

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Last week was the annual self-inflicted idiocy/torture that is 24-hour comics day. The day when a LOT of comic artists around the world decide, like the insane people they are, that the thing they would most like to do is draw a full 24-page comic in 24-hours. Obviously this is madness. But it’s bloody good [...]

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Molly would like me to apologise and say thank you….

4. February 2012

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Why does my darling daughter want me to apologise and say thank you? And who to? Well, the answer is in the panel above. From Paper Science #7, The King Of Things by Adam Cadwell. As reviewed here, featured here, and available to purchase here. Because, if you look at the dark brown haired girl with [...]

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Temps Mort

1. February 2012

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Temps Mort is another nice slice of animation from the students at the Ecole Supérieure des Métiers Artistiques (ESMA) in Toulouse, with Michael Lima Barbosa, Laura Sabourdy and Paul D’Herbemont offering up a short but funny tale of the Grim Reaper (love his collapsible scythe!), a young man and his elderly neighbour, which takes a [...]

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Small can be wonderful

31. January 2012

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Not comics but I’m sure many of you will enjoy admiring Matthew Cruickshank‘s small but quite lovely paintings (tip of the hat to Kellie Strøm for the link):

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