Tag Archive | "art"

Art For Art’s Sake

Sunday, June 16, 2013

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You were only going to watch terrible TV all day – have some art instead… Kate Beaton illustrations for a new YA novel from from debut author Seth Fishman, out in Feb 2014. io9 had the reveal of the gorgeous cover and cast. Here’s Mia Kish, star of The Well’s End by Seth Fishman. Jade Sarson‘s [...]

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Art: Charles Addams….

Saturday, June 15, 2013

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Oh. Gorgeous. Just gorgeous… the magnificent Charles Addams… via lots of places, but originally from Gregory’s Shock Theatre. Full pics under the cut….

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Art For Art’s Sake

Sunday, June 9, 2013

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<insert mildly humorous intro line here…> Jordan Gibson: Kitty Pryde in the Danger Room as the X-Men watch on. Drawn by Frarel Dalrymple. (Bendis) Nick Fury by Lee Weeks (Bendis) Shane Oakley – The Shadow: Plastic Man by Jack Cole (Spaceship Rocket) Ramon Villalobos: “old.friends” by Patricio Betteo aka betteo (Via Roast Unicorn) Amy Reeder— the unpublished cover for SUPERGIRL [...]

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Geeked Magazine

Sunday, June 9, 2013

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Just a quick heads up on this; Geeked is up to issue 3 now, and this issue it’s the illustration issue, featuring the best in contemporary illustration, including quite a few comic people you may well have heard us talk of. Geeked describes itself as “an illustration-led quarterly magazine with an urban feminist slant on [...]

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Upcoming: the Art of Sean Phillips

Friday, June 7, 2013

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Sean Phillips, surely one of our top comics artists (and a nice chap to boot) blogs that Dynamite have announced The Art of Sean Phillips, coming out this October. Over three hundred pages of Sean’s artwork which he has personally selected from across his career, taking in strips he did with childhood friends to his [...]

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From our continental correspondent – More art and comics

Wednesday, June 5, 2013

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Like I said in a recent post about Typex’s Rembrandt graphic novel, there’s quite a lot of Art in comics these days. Well, yes, obviously there is art, it is a graphic medium after all! But here we mean (hushed, respectful tones) Art. With a capital A, as in the ‘fine arts’ and how comics [...]

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Art For Art’s Sake

Sunday, June 2, 2013

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Fiona Staples: The latest cover I did for Archie- Betty and Veronica as little mermaids! Adrian Tomine – April 15, 2013 issue of The New Yorker as pictorial accompaniment to a review of Terrance Malik’s To the Wonder. (Via Wim) The White Rabbit by Ralph Steadman (Comics Blah) “Batman Annual #2 : Cover” by Jock (Roast Unicorn) Emergency Call by [...]

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Art: Jennie Gyllblad

Saturday, June 1, 2013

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One day I shall make a list of all those comic projects and artists I mean to look at. It will be a HUGE list. Right now, the UK scene is so strong, so vibrant, that even concentrating almost exclusively on UK stuff, I still find there’s simply not enough time to do enough. So, [...]

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Exhibitions: Steadman at 77

Thursday, May 30, 2013

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Steadman at 77:  The Ralph Steadman exhibition at The Cartoon Museum, London, until the 8th of September 2013 Illustrator, artist, cartoonist and political commentator, Ralph Steadman is beyond brilliant. He has a dark genius that fills pages full of expression and energy and the Cartoon Museum have over 100 of his pieces on display in [...]

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From our continental correspondent – Anke Feuchtenberger exhibition in Paris

Tuesday, May 28, 2013

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The famous comics and cartoon art gallery Martel in Paris will be hosting an exhibition featuring work by acclaimed German cartoonist and artist Anke Feuchtenberger. Feuchtenberger is a child of a country in turmoil. She was born the child of graphic artists in 1963, in East Berlin. She was educated in the socialist art school [...]

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