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Art For Art’s Sake

Sunday, March 17, 2013

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Art meets Internet. We’re all impressed. Except him over there. But he’s strange. Ignore him and on with the art…. Duncan Fegredo posts up his fabulous pencil roughs to his Nelson chapter (here), including this unused ending to his chapter…. “This was my original ending, I wasn’t as mean as @mrphoenix and @Robgog wanted me [...]

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Art For Art’s Sake

Sunday, March 10, 2013

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Comics as art….. oh yes, oh very yes…. a little Sunday roundup of some nice things for your eyes to show your brain: Every so often I’ll forget how incredibly affecting Dave McKean’s work can be, then I see something like this…. those colours…. oh my. From Black Orchid by Gaiman and McKean. Have an [...]

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Art For Art’s Sake

Sunday, March 3, 2013

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Comic art…. don’t you just love it.??? Nick Cardy romance covers are wonderful (Via Sequential Crush) Which set me off on a Nick Cardy hunt…. Teen Titans (late 60s? ’69?) And this…. gorgeous….. Which of course brings us to the deliciously great faux-romance pages in Hawkeye 8 by Annie Wu:   Of course, this is [...]

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Art For Art’s Sake

Sunday, February 24, 2013

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Another week, more art…. isn’t it marvellous dears…. Mattotti New Yorker cover (Via Bendis) Marc Hempel – The Endless: and a blow up of Delirium: Paul Pope: “Line art for my story about the Apollo 12 mission for Dark Horse Presents. This strip is appearing in Best American Comics 2013. This was the single-most historically [...]

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Art For Art’s Sake

Sunday, February 17, 2013

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Art. Internet. Collect and repeat weekly…. The Invisibles – Jim Mahfood: Paul Grist Dr Strange (Via Bendis) Shane Oakley (Hey Oscar Wilde) Jonathan Edwards draws trees… they are wonderful trees…. Will Morris – Silver Darlings (beautiful beautiful book) done as an action film! Bacchalo and Townsend – Endless commission (Via Bendis) Great spin on the [...]

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Art For Art’s Sake slushy romance special

Thursday, February 14, 2013

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Yes, it is Valentine’s Day again, and while I’m left wondering why Zatanna didn’t send me a card (again) – what do you mean she’s not real??? – it seems like a good time to borrow Richard’s weekend regular Art For Art’s Sake format and give it over to the world of romance and lurve, [...]

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Art For Art’s Sake

Sunday, February 10, 2013

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The Internet … Oh my God, it’s full of comics… Chris Weston commission – “Just completed today: a private commission featuring Flash Gordon. The customer also asked me to include Dale Arden and Ming the Merciless in the design. The three characters were based closely on the original sunday papers version of the characters as drawn by Alex [...]

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Art For Art’s Sake

Sunday, February 3, 2013

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Comics on the Internet…. eating my time since 2000…. Missed this before now – Jaime Hernandez supplies the image for the CBLDF 2013 membership – loads of great merch here: Lets show you these wonderful Jonathan Edwards Marvel abstract heroes from his Facebook; Alison Sampson…. more please! Bill Walko: The Dazzlers….  Ali Blaire is new [...]

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Art For Art’s Sake

Sunday, January 27, 2013

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Once upon a time a very nice man invented the Internet. On the plus side, we soon had lots and lots of comic art to look at. On the minus side… no time anymore, The Mail Online, You Tube comments, I could go on, and on, and on, and on…. But anyway… comic art… Lets [...]

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Art For Art’s Sake

Sunday, January 20, 2013

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The Internet still hasn’t run out of comic art… who would have thought eh? Annie Wu – a little art from Hawkeye 8, out in February. Steve White: An Englishman, a Swamp Thing and a Ceratosaur (Via DC Dark) Greg Guillemin’s Secret Life Of Heroes series… lots more at the link Amy Reed Hadley – [...]

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