I always love these pieces, where we get to see the work that goes on behind the scenes to make the magic that appears on the comic page. Alison Sampson at her brilliant Space In Text site has posted a load of behind the scenes footage from Strange Tales II, featuring art by Kate Beaton, [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, February 13, 2011
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Over at Comics Alliance there’s a complete gallery of the cover art to various dvds in the Criterion collection, whether actual covers or posters created for the 2010 All Tomorrow’s Parties festival. See here for Sean Hughes doing Tony Curtis in The Sweet Smell Of Success. And here’s a couple of the stand-outs: Divorce Italian Style [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, November 7, 2010
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(Jaime Hernandez photo borrowed from the Fantagraphics blog) Over at The Daily Crosshatch, there’s part one (of four) of a great Jaime Hernandez interview. Including this; on the fortuitous mistakes that have sometimes added so much to his work, from the new Love & Rockets Volume which contained the quite brilliant Brown Town: “This brand new [...]
Continue reading...Monday, October 25, 2010
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Hugely respected comics publisher Gary Groth talks to the legendary Jaime Hernandez in this good, long video from the 2010 Small Press Expo – fab! You want to watch this. SPX 2010 – Spotlight – Jaime Hernandez from Small Press Expo on Vimeo.
Continue reading...Sunday, August 29, 2010
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Now that’s a gorgeous cover by Jaime Hernandez, from the second issue of Strange Tales Volume 2 – due in November 2010. He and Gilbert have stories in this one, along with Farel Dalrymple, Paul Maybury, Tony Millionaire, Jeffrey Brown and Paul Hornschemeier. And if you haven’t already picked up the collection of Volume 1 [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, June 17, 2010
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Missed this a while back, but isn’t this Cliff Chiang variant cover to Archie #600 through the Hero Initiative Archie series a brilliant and stunning image? Very, very reminiscent of Jaime Hernandez and Love & Rockets methinks. (via Newsarama)
Continue reading...Monday, May 3, 2010
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Because you can never really have enough Jaime Hernandez. The Village Voice recently cover featured Hernandez (the article is online here)and Jaime’s cover is lovely – especially the sly hand gesture from Maggie – LA indeed. (via the FB blog) And this little bit of Jaime Hernandez news/art has given me the excuse to put [...]
Continue reading...Monday, April 12, 2010
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The Art Of Jaime Hernandez: The Secrets Of Life And Death By Todd Hignite, designed by Jordan Crane Abrams Comic Arts (* quote on the title of this piece from Alan Moore) This is one of those pointless reviews I do every so often. Pointless simply because The Secrets Of Life And Death is a [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, March 31, 2010
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Our crews in our branches and warehouses are beavering away mining comics goodness for you to browse on the shelves tomorrow. Some cool releases in among them, but there’s one that stood out for me, not just because it’s a very large, red-jacketed hardback so it physically does stand out, but because it’s a book [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, August 30, 2009
Geek Girls Network presents it’s Top 10 Women Comic Characters. Always interesting to see these sorts of things, agree with them or not. Nice to see slightly more unusual choices with the inclusion of Judge Anderson and Jenny Sparks alongside perennials such as Tank Girl and Death. But I think there are a couple of [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, July 19, 2009
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Jordan Crane has re-created Jaime Hernandez’s brilliant rock’n'roll cover to Love & Rockets issue 24 as a large silk-screen print. You can practically smell the spilt beer and sweat of the mosh pit, the sort of atmosphere you only get in smaller, intimate venues (or dives really), not in the big auditorium. Imagine how goddam [...]
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Saturday, April 2, 2011
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