Elliot Dale has a short but enjoyable video of a day in the life of the very fine artist Chris Weston, including showing Chris painting (physically, not on a tablet) a rather excellent Miracleman/Marvelman: Chris Weston – A Day in the Life from Elliot Dale on Vimeo.
Continue reading...Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Anna Pan posts up a short video with artist Stan Yan talking about creating comics: People | Stan Yan: comic artist, cartoonist, graphic storyteller from Anna Pan on Vimeo.
Continue reading...Friday, December 2, 2011
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Following on from yesterday’s short video tutorial with noted creator and manga reviewer Deb Aoki on inking there are more videos from SakuraColourproducts’ YouTube channel featuring Deb, including one on creating basic faces and expressions (nice and simple, even I might manage to follow this!): Drawing word balloons and sound effects: And adding dynamic movement [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, October 5, 2011
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(new Dredd cover art by the great Brian Bolland, Dredd (c) Rebellion) Tom at Comic Reporter brings us news that will make a huge slew of comics readers, most especially those of us who have grown up with The Galaxy’s Greatest Comic, very, very happy – the brilliant Brian Bolland has begun blogging. It seems [...]
Continue reading...Friday, September 30, 2011
Well alright! It’s 1969 ok We got a war across the USA There’s nothing here for me and you We’re just sitting here with nothing to do There’s nothing here for me and you Another year with nothing to do. (1969 – The Stooges) (cover art to LOEG Century 1969 by and (c) Messrs Alan [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, September 13, 2011
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Ulysses E Campbell has posted a short video interview with comics artist Jo Chen, who has been responsible for a huge amount of very varied work and is especially notable to many readers for her cover work for the Buffy season 8 (and now season 9) comics by Joss Whedon: From episode #28, Ulysses E [...]
Continue reading...Friday, August 12, 2011
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The very fine Mike Perkins, who has worked on comics from 2000 AD to Captain America, Superman and The Stand, will be in our Nostalgia & Comics store in Birmingham this weekend – Mike will be signing in the store from 12 to 3pm on Saturday 13th of August.
Continue reading...Tuesday, July 19, 2011
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(some of the work on offer in his new sketchbook, by and (c) Wes Craig) Those very nice folks at the Comic Archive have posted up yet another set of videos featuring an artist talking us through their work, studio, style, influences and career. This time it is a set of videos talking with artist [...]
Continue reading...Monday, June 13, 2011
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Illustrator and cartoonist Gary Panter, whose art has been described as expressionist new wave punk, recently had an exhibition in the Martel Galerie in Paris, with lots of sketches and paintings, a fair amount of Jimbo material and quite a lot of Smokestack strips. Even though the exhibition is already over, you can still check [...]
Continue reading...Monday, May 16, 2011
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YouTube user Kameliter posted this short video of one of the great master of comics, Walter Simonson, sketching for fans at the Hawthorne High Comic Art Show in New Jersey. Here Walt is sketching a Beta Ray Bill and the mighty Thor- it isn’t timelapse and it is amazing to watch how quickly he sketched [...]
Continue reading...Monday, March 28, 2011
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Here’s a delightfully monstrous way to start the week – a short video showcasing the fabulous illustrations of New York artist Travis Louie: Curiosities _ The Monstrous Talent of Travis Louie from Jainkeff on Vimeo.
Continue reading...Friday, February 11, 2011
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The Comic Archive has posted more from their series of videos with artist Phil Jimenez (see here for the earlier ones), with Phil talking his childhood love for the comics medium and how he set about trying to make it his chosen career: Talking about his first real job in comics, working on Wonder Woman: [...]
Continue reading...Friday, October 8, 2010
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(cover art to Exposé 8, by marek Okon for Games Workshop’s Warhammer 40000, published Ballistic) I’m always delighted when we receive new books from Ballistic Publishing; right from the start I’ve been impressed with their lovely books celebrating a wide variety of digital art. A new book in the Exposé series is always particularly welcome, [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, September 16, 2010
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Jerry Robinson: Ambassador Of Comics Written by N. C. Christopher Couch; illustrated by Jerry Robinson; introduction by Pete Hamill; foreword by Dennis O’Neil Abrams ComicArts Jerry Robinson is described on the cover flaps of Ambassador Of Comics as “one of the living legends of American comics” and it’s something you can’t really argue with. He [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, May 11, 2010
(the one and only Vampirella by Frank Frazetta for Warren mags in 1968, image borrowed from the American Art Archives) News has been spreading around the web of the passing of the great Frank Frazetta, one of the last of the giants. Born in 1928, Frank was drawing comics from his teens onwards; he created [...]
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Monday, April 23, 2012
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