Tag Archive | "Ephemerist"

Real life actors as comics characters

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

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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 [...]

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Magritte meet Hergé

Thursday, July 23, 2009

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Via Wim’s Ephemerist comes this clever piece by Karl Meersman for Focus magazine, celebrating two very different but famous and celebrated artists who have both had museums dedicated to their work open in Belgium recently, René Magritte and Hergé.

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‘Real’ Charlie Brown

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

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Tim O’Brien creates this image of good ‘ole Charlie Brown as he might look if he was real; it’s quite disturbing and, I think, a little sad, as if poor Charlie is looking at the viewer and knowing they probably see him as some sort of freak curiosity (which is, regrettably, what many real0life people [...]

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