(The Sea of Dreams is Round by and (c) Stephen Chan) Matt Williams pointed me to this art blog by Stephen Chan after The Mighty Pencil picked him as their illustrator of the day. And it was a good call – not comics per se, but there is some lovely artwork on there, do yourselves [...]
Continue reading...Friday, May 13, 2011
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This isn’t comics but it is such a gorgeous piece of illustration I thought I had to share it on here, I know some of you will appreciate it: Abigail Daker created a gorgeous, colourful illustrated map of London following the mighty Thames. On her blog she talks about creating the map and how she [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, April 26, 2011
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There’s still a few days left to enjoy the free exhibition of Alice in Wonderland books at the National Library of Scotland on George IV Bridge, Edinburgh (the bridge parallel to Southbridge where the Edinburgh FP can be found). I visited recently (conveniently it is open till 8pm most evenings, so you can even visit [...]
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...Thursday, November 25, 2010
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Cars have always been a major theme in the work of Belgian master illustrator Ever Meulen, especially the so-called vintage makes. For the Flemish daily De Standaard, Meulen did a series on the history of classic cars, and he himself is the proud owner of a 1949 Oldsmobile. For his new exhibition, Essence(s), which is [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, September 28, 2010
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Golden Age Comic Book Stories has posted up a number of illustration by Sidney Sime, an early 20th century artist who illustrated books (including a number for Lord Dunsanay, one of the first of our great early fantasy writers), satirical work for the famous Pall Mall Gazette and others and, like Edward Gorey, some theatrical [...]
Continue reading...Friday, September 24, 2010
Sarah McIntyre is, as regular readers will know, a huge favourite of your FP blog crew (not least with our cub reporter, young Molly) for her comics and her illustration work, as well as for her sparkly tiaras at comics and book events. This autumn sees the second wave of graphic novel collections from the [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, March 9, 2010
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Dutch illustrator and cartoonist Henk Spoel (better known as Wasco) has traded his pencils for a pair of scissors and created a series of paper cuttings that remind us of similar shadow portraits from the 19th century, but also seem to refer to the illustrations that Blexbolex is doing these days in his Imagier Des [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, March 9, 2010
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BoingBoing points us towards a new art blog by Leif Peng, called Female Illustrators of the mid-20th Century. It isn’t specifically comics art, but it is, as the title implies, shining a light on women artists, most of whom I’ve not come across before and as is the way with this kind of thing it [...]
Continue reading...Friday, March 5, 2010
Smashing Magazine has a feature highlighting artworks created using Adobe Illustrator; there’s some cracking art and designs to browse, so go have a look – I love this alternative Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark poster by Tom Whalen, looks like it should go with a 20s or early 30s serial film, [...]
Continue reading...Friday, October 23, 2009
Eleanor Davis was asked by the Guardian newspaper to create some artwork for a series they are doing on fairy tales, including some illustrated booklets. I’ve a permanent soft spot for illustrated fairy tales – they must be among the first artworks we see as very young children, art depicting fantastical worlds of the imagination [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, September 27, 2009
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(Maurice Vellekoop ilustration from LA Times article on Graphic Novel reader) Maurice Vellekoop draws beautiful, colourful and flamboyant things. He could draw a rubbish bin and make it gorgeous. There’s sadly very little available work for you to buy – but his commercial work does pop up occasionally – like this fashion spread from National [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, September 22, 2009
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The brilliant Chris Ware has created the cover for volume 108 of respected literary journal Granta, which has a theme based around the Windy City, Chicago. Ware, as ever, has produced a lovely, deceptively simple, clean piece of illustration; I think it has a nice, fairly timeless quality to it – I could easily imagine [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, September 22, 2009
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Isaac Littlejohn Eddy interviews Hooman Majd, author of The Ayatollah Begs to Differ: theParadox of Modern Iran, which isn’t directly related to our normal comics field of coverage, except, rather interestingly, he’s included some rather neat comics-style illustrations to go along with the audio segments, which makes the whole thing seem more friendly and accessible, [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, September 8, 2009
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Rob Davies posts some useful and quite candidly practical tips for anyone trying to make a living from their art, ten suggestions to try and get paying work rather than the starving in the artistic garret approach, ranging from getting an agent who will get you a fee for pitching ideas (even if not finally [...]
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