On the racks today is the Batman International collection, which includes Batman: the Scottish connection by Alan Grant and Frank Quitely. I like Frank’s artwork normally, but glancing inside at his depiction of Edinburgh Castle as viewed from the Grassmarket I can’t help but wonder why he didn’t render a more accurate depiction of the [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Slash Film (via BoingBoing) has this fab pic of the Dark Knight armed with a lightsabre tackling a huge Great White Shark. It doesn’t say who created the image but although it’s a bit daft it’s also all kinds of awesome!
Continue reading...Sunday, March 14, 2010
Now that’s just scary. Found on the Threadless T-shirt site by Robot 6.
Continue reading...Sunday, February 28, 2010
Have a couple of really lovely Batman pics on us. Okay, maybe not on us, but definitely from John Porcellino whose version of Batman and Robin (colours by Noah Van Sciver) was drawn for Denver Comics Fest sketchbook; And then enjoy Cameron Stewart’s definitely not a cover for Batman and Robin 9 as announced on [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, February 20, 2010
You too can make your own Batman panel, just as I did. Three to choose from. Silly, a time-waster, but lots of fun.
Continue reading...Saturday, February 20, 2010
Sometimes there’s some stunningly good cover artwork coming out from the big boys and girls, and the new Spirit series issues 1 & 2 by artist Ladronn are truly great: The last time DC tried to do something with Will Eisner’s Spirit character they hired Darwyn Cooke & J. Bone to create a staggeringly good [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Batman on skis! Actually multiple Batmen on skis! Holy winter sports! Sadly this is not a scene from some new and delightfully twisted Grant Morrison take on the Dark Knight and the Winter Olympics, it is actually from Rio’s Carnaval (via SFX’s Twitter, pic Reuters/Ricardo Moraes; Boston.com, where this came from, has some fabulous Carnival [...]
Continue reading...Monday, February 8, 2010
The SFX Weekender was held over the weekend (well, duh!) and among the panels and cosplay and discussions and drinking there were, of course, the annual SFX awards. The Geek Syndicate boys were live-Tweeting them as they happened (thanks, Nuge) and SF Awards Watch has handily compiled them all. Neil Gaiman won the Best Novel [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, January 10, 2010
Another artist with a knack for stealing away your time of a weekend; WanderingBert has spent a loooong time documenting every Batman villain he can possibly draw over on his Flickr page.(via BuzzFeed) Now, can you name them all? Answers in the comments.
Continue reading...Sunday, December 20, 2009
Ooooh. Pretty. But then again I’ve rarely seen anything Pope draws that I don’t have that response to. See his Flickrstream for more chances to go ooooh.
Continue reading...Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Fabio Moon (via hisTwitter) points out this great bit of unauthorised team up action featuring Batman and Aquaman from Brazilian artist Eduardo Medeiros. Someone let Mark Chiarello know we’ve got a perfect strip for next year’s Wednesday Comics. (link via Robot 6)
Continue reading...Wednesday, August 19, 2009
El Pais had five actors from Spain made up especially as real life versions of well known comics characters, including Popeye, Tintin, Batman/Bruce Wayne, Flash Gordon (although he appeared to be in the 80s movie costume rather than comic style) and a disturbingly cute girly ‘Donald Duck’ (just go and look and see what I [...]
Continue reading...Monday, August 10, 2009
Yes, that is Captain American and Batman sharing a ride in a Mini; with petroleum prices increasing and supplies dwindling, not to mention the pollution caused by cars our superheroes are teaming up to fight crime by carpooling. Meanwhile Peter Parker, the Amazing Spider-Man, enjoys a well earned vacation driving around Scottish beauty spots. Mind you, I [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, August 1, 2009
From the Architects Journal of all places, this is a top 10 run down of the wonderous, nightmarish and plain bizarre places comic book heroes and villains call home: Top 10 Comic Book Cities. Running through some obvious ones: Gotham, Metropolis, Daredevil’s New York (actually it’s really Miller and Mazzecchelli’s New York featuring DD, but that’s [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, July 16, 2009
“A new graphic novel from DC Comics is “part coda, love letter and summation of Batman’s raison d’etre,” says writer Neil Gaiman. Gaiman’s take on the Batman mystique — Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader? — was published in two parts as the final editions of the long-running Batman and Detective Comics series.” “Now it’s a [...]
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Thursday, March 18, 2010
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