Tag Archive | "art"

MKomix

Friday, May 25, 2012

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One of our long-time favourite Brit small press comic creators Paul Rainey drops us a line to say that the Milton Keynes Art Gallery is hosting an exhibition of Pushwagner art this summer. This will be the first solo exhibition of Norwegian artist and comics creator Hariton Pushwagner outside of his native land and will [...]

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Totoro meets penguin: Ghibli films as old Penguin paperbacks

Friday, May 25, 2012

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Just how lovely are these illustrations? The films of the wonderful Studio Ghibli re-imagined as if they had been old school Penguin paperback editions. Smile inducing work by Jason K, who is selling them as postcard sets on Etsy. (via Live For Films)

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Art For Art’s Sake

Sunday, May 20, 2012

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Pictures…. yeah…. Margaux Motin (author of the lovely looking, very funny sounding But I Really Wanted To Be An Anthropologist) cover for Fluide.G mag – from the SelfMadeHero blog: The first thing he’s posted since October 2011…. Paul Pope’s Jedi from 2011: Just one from a series of Chris Weston commissions over at 2000AD Online: Mick [...]

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Alter Ego art show… the pics!

Sunday, May 20, 2012

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The Alter Ego show finished on Wednesday – and from all reports it was a bit good. Seven artists involved: Waste, Cottonmouth (RichT) , Guy McKinley, Klingatron, Robert Ball, Smug, and WJC looking at the ideas of being someone else, hero, villain, whatever…. the artwork is over at the Alter Ego Facebook page. But I figured you could cope with a [...]

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12 Dessins par jour/12 Drawings a day

Thursday, May 17, 2012

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Denis Chapon created twelve drawings per day between the years of 2008 and 2012; each batch of twelve drawings equated to one whole second of screen time in terms of animation. After three years of this labour he edited them together into this rather cool short animation which, as well as being an enjoyable short [...]

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Art For Art’s Sake

Sunday, May 13, 2012

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Comics…. Internet…. Art? We think so…. Craig Thompson does a little of Mike Mignola’s Hellboy (Via Aw Yeah Comics) Jonathan Edwards has this “Happy Hour” print for sale. David Hitchcock‘s Batman from many years ago: “Way back when (around 12 years ago I reckon) I did this victorian Batman, if was a for an idea [...]

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Sendak – picture tributes…

Saturday, May 12, 2012

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Maurice Sendak (1928-2012), another genius lost… Tom at The Comics Reporter had an excellent roundup, but here’s just a little of the pictures I’ve seen this week: (Paul Harrison Davies – part of a collection of tributes at The Mooks Tumblr) (Dan Hipp) (Evan Doc Shaner) (Sarah McIntyre) (Fred Blunt) (Mike Maihack) And Maihack’s piece [...]

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Nao Of Brown…

Saturday, May 12, 2012

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The Nao Of Brown by Glyn Dillon is out in September 2012 from SelfMadeHero. It looks rather special “Things aren’t so black and white after all.” “Nao Brown is ‘Hafu’: half Japanese, half English. She’s 28 and suffers with OCD, but not the hand-washing, overly tidy type that people joke about. Nao suffers from violent [...]

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Goodnight, Max

Thursday, May 10, 2012

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I know I posted on the sad passing of the great Maurice Sendak yesterday, but Charles Santoso’s tribute art is simply too lovely not to share on here. And on a related note Neil Gaiman asked the New Yorker very nicely if they could unlock a couple of pages of comics by Sendak and Art [...]

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Maurice Sendak, RIP

Tuesday, May 8, 2012

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Terrible news for all lovers of books – the great Maurice Sendak has passed away at the age of 83, from complications arising from a recent stroke according to the NY Times article. It’s impossible to overstate the towering influence Sendak has had – quite probably the pre-eminent illustrator of children’s books in the last [...]

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Elephantine

Tuesday, May 8, 2012

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You should add Charles Santoso to your Twitter follows – I’m rather enjoying seeing his regular artistic responses to suggested words. This one, as you can probably tell, was suggested by the word ‘elephantine’, which is a splendid word which doesn’t get used often enough in regular conversations.

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The art of the background artist

Monday, May 7, 2012

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Over on Audrey Kawasaki’s LiveJournal she extolls an often overlooked yet painstaking, time-consuming aspect of creating animation for film – the background artist’s work. While the moving characters in the foreground take most of our attention (as indeed they are meant to, after all) the background details are often just that, a background, which is [...]

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Freddy Mercury?

Monday, May 7, 2012

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Oh, this is rather brilliant, and rather silly… Colleen Coover has posted this. Basically a couple of years ago Marvel staffer Steve Bunche put a Marvel try-out page up online. His comment: “While this guy would never have gotten work in a professional comic as a penciller, I have to admire his talent for creating an instant [...]

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Where Have All The Illustrators Gone – A Reminder….

Sunday, May 6, 2012

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That’s Adrian Tomine’s cover to Pynchon’s Inherent Vice. Here’s the Independent article decrying modern illustration. And here’s what Dan Franklin of Cape had to say…. (emphasis mine) “I think a) it’s fashion”, he says trenchantly. “And b) there aren’t that many great illustrators. It’s rare you can come across someone who can draw. Even when [...]

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Art For Art’s Sake

Sunday, May 6, 2012

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Art pour l’art: tout ce qui est beau du monde de la bande dessinée cette semaine Ok, that’s it for my weak French….. Dave Taylor’s Live series… brilliant. 4 here, more at his DesPop site: Beautiful Bone image by MAX (probably best known here for Peter Pank?), as reported by Jeff Smith’s site: Luke Pearson: “All the princesses - Done for Once Upon a [...]

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