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From our continental correspondent – Very Important Pixels
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 [...]
Continue reading...Drawing Down the Moon
Friday, August 7, 2009
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 [...]
Continue reading...Don’t get married to an idea
Thursday, July 30, 2009
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 [...]
Continue reading...John Ryan, creator of Captain Pugwash, RIP
Friday, July 24, 2009
(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 by [...]
Continue reading...Thomas Ott site
Monday, July 13, 2009
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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