Tag Archive | "art"

Star Wars posters with toon-style makeover

Friday, February 10, 2012

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SyFy’s Blastr posts up three pretty cool cartoon styled revamps of the original Star Wars posters for A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, all by artist Christopher Lee (no, not that Christopher Lee!). Fab.

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The Donger and Me – Adrian Tomine page for sale

Friday, February 10, 2012

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The Donger And Me is a self contained one page story by the brilliant Adrian Tomine currently up for auction and sitting with a bid of $550 at time of writing. Sweet. Although long before Hollywood beckoned didn’t Aussie comedian Paul Hogan have a cop character called Donger? The cop injured in the line of [...]

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Art meets SciFi

Thursday, February 9, 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….

Wednesday, February 8, 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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Happy birthday, Mr Dickens

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

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One of the most beloved authors in the world, Charles Dickens, would have been 200 years old today, were he still alive in the physical sense (he is, of course, still alive in spirit through his books). I always liked the Doctor Who episode where Dickens asks our time travelling hero if his books survive, [...]

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Batman and the Joker, time lapse

Monday, February 6, 2012

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I always get a kick out of watching time-lapse videos of artwork coming together and Stefan Eriksson’s video of the Joker and Batman is pretty cool, starting off with very basic outlines, through the magic of time lapse it progresses within a few short minutes into a very stylish painting: Batman & Joker – Time-lapse [...]

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Small can be wonderful

Tuesday, January 31, 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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From our Continenal Correspondent: Angouleme – the best of the rest

Monday, January 30, 2012

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I didn’t go to any of the talks or interviews at Angoulême this year, partly because I didn’t feel like standing in line for hours, and partly because this year’s menu was plentiful enough. Just attending the many exhibitions took most of my time here. There was a very good show in the Comics Museum, [...]

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Art For Art’s Sake

Sunday, January 29, 2012

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Another week, another load of great comic art…. this Internet thing spoils us…. Lovely Tank Girl artwork for the forthcoming Athens Comic Convention by Rufus Dayglo. Love, love, love that scarf…. Lew Stringer: “The Justice Plague of Britain in action. A scene from the Brickman series I did that was a back up in ELEPHANTMEN [...]

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Jamie Smart – Hey, that’s my work!

Sunday, January 29, 2012

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Just what do you do, in these mass media times, when you come across someone using your work for commercial means? It’s happening more and more now, with the Internet meaning that not only is it easier than ever to find something and steal it, it’s also far easier for the original artist to discover [...]

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Lizz Lunney conquers the world (or at last the card shops…)

Sunday, January 29, 2012

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Lizz Lunney – a source of continual, simple joy – her work always a treat, her unusual, quirky ideas and simple cartooning producing some wonderful comics over the past few years. Most recently with the great Depressed Cat comics. And it’s good to see it’s not without some reward. Although, unfortunately, it’s not really a [...]

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Henry Flint’s One Page Graphic Novel…..

Saturday, January 28, 2012

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Just one page, but what a page…. artist Henry Flint gives you the one page graphic novel: The Thames Megalodon: “Keith is a dustman who is shot into the future by a Time Vortex. He meets three companions and they start an epic adventure and It’s up to you to fill in the gaps.“

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The Badass Scooby Doo gang…

Saturday, January 28, 2012

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Love this; from Noelle Stevenson (and via Julia Scheele) – a great badass Scooby gang…

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Counting down to Angouleme – the exhibitions

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

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One of the main reasons for going to the bande dessinee festival in Angoulême, next to bumping into some of your heroes in the street and ending up having coffee with them, are the exhibitions.  It seems the organisers are trying to crank it up a notch with every edition. Last year Art Spiegelman won [...]

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Astronauts!

Monday, January 23, 2012

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Philip J Bond has been updating his Flickr collection of art of female astronauts. I think they are cracking, both as art and as a nice way of looking at space exploration history – especially nice to see the women astronauts and cosmonauts being the focus for a change. I’m particularly taken with his depiction [...]

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