Tag Archive | "Spirit"

Steranko goodness and damned fine cover art

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

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Paul Tobin is running a favourite cover artist countdown on his blog, with the great Steranko at #9, which gives us a good excuse to borrow one of the covers Paul’s celebrating and share it on here – any excuse for some fab Steranko art (thanks to Dave Gibbons for the link): (Steranko puts Nick [...]

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Judging a book by it’s cover….. another Spirit series

Saturday, February 20, 2010

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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 [...]

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Will Eisner Week

Saturday, January 16, 2010

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From the Will Eisner.com website: “Join us in an ongoing celebration promoting graphic novel literacy, free speech awareness, and the legacy of Will Eisner. The second annual celebration of Will Eisner’s contribution to comics and American culture and is offered as a springboard to advance education of comics and graphic novels in all communities around [...]

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Paul Pope on Will Eisner and design… Eddie Campbell on Eisner’s missing period…

Sunday, October 4, 2009

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Bit of an Eisner-a-thon right now: Paul Pope has a blog post on the late, great Will Eisner concentrating on some of his design work, as featured in Baseline magazine. (The issue in question is from 1990 and will set you back £40 here). Click on the picture for a bigger version via Pope’s website [...]

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Spirit en Fraincais….

Sunday, August 23, 2009

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And isn’t that just gorgeous? Our very own Wim at his Ephemerist blog points this one out. A beautiful cover image by Thierry Martin for a French Spirit magazine coming in 2010. If the rest of the mag has that quality of art expect to see more of it here. (illustration © Thierry Martin)

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