Tag Archive | "artist"

From our continental correspondent – Gary Panter Painted Paris‏

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 [...]

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Walt Simonson draws Beta Ray Bill & Thor

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 [...]

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The Monstrous Talent of Travis Louie

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.

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More Phil Jimenez

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: [...]

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New Exposé

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, [...]

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Jerry Robinson: Ambassador Of Comics

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 [...]

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Frank Frazetta, RIP

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

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(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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Guy Dessicy, the last witness : Hergé, Leblanc and Abdallah

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

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74 years ago he got to know Hergé, the beginning of a lifelong friendship which would last up to the deathbed of the Brussels artist. That meeting was also the beginning of an impressive career in the shadow of virtually all major Belgian comic artists of the twentieth century. With the help of Hec Leemans, [...]

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Movement from the still image

Friday, March 19, 2010

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We know that animation creates the illusion of movement through a rapid sequence of still images (as indeed does traditional celluloid film, including live action) and that comics creators have long used various devices and tricks to imply action and motion from a still frame to the reader’s eye. The excellent New Scientist has an [...]

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Ronald Searle video interview

Friday, March 5, 2010

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Channel 4 News’ interview with Ronald Searle, as an exhibition of his work goes on show in London to celebrate his 90th birthday, is now online to enjoy, complete with some of his art from books and journals from le Monde to the New Yorker; sadly, as the reporter notes, he is probably more recognised [...]

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From our continental correspondent – Very Important Pixels

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

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Belgian illustrator and designer Kristof Saelen has a way with pixels.  I wrote about him on my blog a while ago, when he did a very nice Tintin and Snowy for a colleague of mine. On his Very Important Pixels blog he regularly adds new effegies of famous, important or funny people.  So far, he’s [...]

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Drawing Down the Moon

Friday, August 7, 2009

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In the latest forthcoming titles solicitations from Dark Horse was a book I imagine a lot of fans will have been looking forward to: Drawing Down the Moon, a collection of art by the wonderful Charles Vess. The book was first mentioned a couple of years back, but work on selecting and designing a book [...]

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Don’t get married to an idea

Thursday, July 30, 2009

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Rod McKie ponders the investment in time and emotion (and possible financial repercussions) of the cartoonist creating something they like themselves but which doesn’t work for publishers or readers and how a canny cartoonist can sometimes rework it to suit when its a single cartoon but how much more difficult it is if they have [...]

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John Ryan, creator of Captain Pugwash, RIP

Friday, July 24, 2009

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(cover to the first Bodley Head edition of Captain Pugwash by John Ryan, pic borrowed from the Gregory & Company author’s agent site) The BBC reports the sad news that cartoonist John Ryan, creator of Captain Pugwash, has passed away at the age of 88. The cartoon pirate captain of the Black Pig was created [...]

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Thomas Ott site

Monday, July 13, 2009

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Nadja points us to a brand new website dedicated to the intriguing work of Swiss artist Thomas Ott, creator of some fascinating work in a ‘scratchboard’ style, such as The Number 73304-23-4153-6-96-8. The new site boasts slideshows of Ott’s artwork and photographs, links to his music (I had no idea he was part of the [...]

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