Via Jeff Newelt comes this link to a spread of rather racy photographs from a Dr Sketchy’s night with Craig Yoe and the recent Secret Identity: the Fetish Art of Superman’s Joe Shuster and scenes from and inspired by the book re-enacted by some very photogenic models resulting in some cool pics and some nice [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, November 15, 2009
I’ve been following Mike Smith’s Blogshank blog for quite a while now. It’s never less than a wry, gentle smile of a strip, often a full on smile and sometimes, just like the example above – absolutely hilarious. We’ve all had that Ikea moment, and many of us have suffered the inevitable marital strife that [...]
Continue reading...Friday, November 13, 2009
Fantastically retro Marvel and DC superheroes artwork from Alan Sanders. Dear Santa, I’d like these as a poster or a duvet set please. (via Drawn)
Continue reading...Monday, November 9, 2009
Oli East’s artwork for Elbow’s award-winning album The Seldom Seen Kid is being donated to the Manchester Art Gallery’s permanent Manchester collection, Guy Garvey has told him. Oli, still basking in the ‘new dad’ glow, notes on his blog that he was also liked the frame the band had for his artwork, made from salvaged [...]
Continue reading...Monday, November 9, 2009
How cool is this Astro Boy artwork by Tim Biskup? BoingBoing reports that Tim and Matt Goldman have a series of paintings, sculptures and prints on show at the opening of the Barracuda Shop in LA on Friday 13th (auspicious day for an opening!) and runs to December 3rd; you can check out more very [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, November 8, 2009
Top Shelf’s Leigh Walton has collected a whole array of Tintin themed sketches from a diverse number of comics artists at conventions over the years, from Bryan Lee O’Malley to Kate Beaton to James Kochalka to Eddie Campbell (whose Thomson and Thompsons can be seen below). Extremely cool! Via Comics Alliance (in turn via Heidi [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Tomorrow sees the seven year graphic novel project by Isabel Rucker, Unfurled, revealed as it goes on display in San Francisco. The title is well chosen as Unfurled eschews the normal comics formats and indeed even pages for a comic tale drawn upon a 400 foot, 12 inch wide roll. From the description on the [...]
Continue reading...Monday, November 2, 2009
Our colleagues in our much-loved Nostalgia & Comics store in Birmingham enjoyed some Halloween fun at the weekend, with costumes encouraged in-store; even flaming skulled Ghost Rider needs to stop by to get his new comics, you know: Some young fans enjoy some Halloween costume fun: And the N&C guys also ran an art competition where budding [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, November 1, 2009
Artist and designer John Coulthart; whose sumptuous and detailed work has graced many, many beautiful things including Savoy’s Lord Horror and several of those great Alan Moore spoken word cds, has a 2010 calendar available on his cafe press site. Psychedelic Wonderland: a psychedelic reinterpretation of Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland. And it looks absolutely stunning…. (Via Moore & [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, October 31, 2009
Halloween costumes, Cosplay costumes – sometimes they’re good, sometimes not so good. But this Roy Lichtenstein job takes it to a whole new level: According to a comment on the Charmed blog the make-up artist doing this fantastic job is Jennifer Corona (Via Buzzfeed).
Continue reading...Friday, October 30, 2009
John Freeman at Down The Tubes has just posted information about Nikhil Singh. We thought you might want to see it as well…. Saturday 24th October should have been a great night for John Harris Dunning & Nikhil Singh as they were meant to be at the ICA as part of the Comica festival for the [...]
Continue reading...Friday, October 30, 2009
Thanks to Matt Dixon for this one – he pointed me to Leif Peng’s blog – Today’s Inspiration, a blog on 40s, 50s and 60s+ artwork. There’s some absolutely lovely work on there, but I was particularly pleased to see these by these great Halloween greetings cards by Pete Hawley. Hawley was one of the [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Celebrated Australian illustrator and cartoonist Shaun tan (The Arrival, Tales From Outer Suburbia) is currently touring Europe (or at least part of it) with an exhibition of a selection of his illustrative work and comics. The exhibition debuted on October 11th in the Burg Wissem Bilderbuchmuseum (or Picture Book Museum) in Troisdorf, Germany, and features [...]
Continue reading...Friday, October 23, 2009
Eleanor Davis was asked by the Guardian newspaper to create some artwork for a series they are doing on fairy tales, including some illustrated booklets. I’ve a permanent soft spot for illustrated fairy tales – they must be among the first artworks we see as very young children, art depicting fantastical worlds of the imagination [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, October 13, 2009
The New Yorker’s Françoise Mouly is the subject of this video, discussing cover design and illustration, working with no less than three artists for the triple cover – including Daniel Clowes – of the new issue. (via Boing Boing)
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Tuesday, November 17, 2009
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