(The Millennium Falcon, the fastest ship to ever make the Kessel Run, here illustrated by the one and only Cam Kennedy for Star Wars: Dark Empire) Yes, it is May the 4th and that means Sith and Jedi and even non-believers who’d rather have a good blaster at their side than rely on a hokey [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, May 4, 2011
The fine video treats from those nice folks a the Comic Archive continue to offer up some little pleasures, including this short from Chip Kidd talking about the comics he enjoyed a kid: Chip Kidd on Growing Up With Comics from The Comic Archive on Vimeo.
Continue reading...Tuesday, May 3, 2011
The invaluable Scott McCloud has posted up a two-part tutorial on lettering comics in Illustrator:
Continue reading...Thursday, April 28, 2011
Graphic concerts, a sort of multimedia performance with cartoonists or other graphic artists sharing the stage with musicians, have become a bit of a mainstay at comics festivals. At the 2011 edition of the Festival BD Pyrénées, which is appropriately held in the mountain range that separates France from Spain, a new twist was given [...]
Continue reading...Monday, April 25, 2011
The always interesting Paul Hornschemeier offers us a brief look through the head of Amy Breis, the protagonist of his graphic novel Life with Mr. Dangerous: Life with Mr. Dangerous from Paul Hornschemeier on Vimeo.
Continue reading...Friday, April 22, 2011
The many tentacled Elder Gods are stirring once more. Not content with the excellent adaptation of At the Mountains of Madness last year SelfMadeHero now interfere once more with Powers That They Cannot Possibly Comprehend, with the first volume of the Lovecraft Anthology (edited by the evil mad wizard of words, Dan ‘Demonicus’ Lockwood), which [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, April 20, 2011
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The Fine Bros do a breathless potted history of the entire four decade plus history of Doctor Who right from Bill Hartnell’s day to the present in only six minutes!
Continue reading...Tuesday, April 19, 2011
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Today we’ve got a not-quite-comics-but-related story for you, direct from the pens and brushes of one of our fave creators, the very fine Oli East. Now we know and love Oli for his wonderful and unusual Trains Are Mint comics (which have been collected by Blank Slate). Regular readers of the blog will also know [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, April 19, 2011
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The Moth presents a good video with Neil Gaiman, recorded live at 27 Arts in New York in 2007 as part of PEN’s World Voices Festival (link via Wim):
Continue reading...Monday, April 18, 2011
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Strand Books has video up of their recent panel on industry icon The Comics Journal (or simply TCJ as it is to many of us), with editors Tim Hodler and Dan Nadel along with Kim Deitch and Gary Groth discussing the three decade-plus history of TCJ, and believe us, TCJ history is important to anyone [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, April 14, 2011
(panels from the recent blog strip by and (c) Boulet) If you think you can draw, think again. French cartoonist, and king of the blog, Boulet (Gilles Roussel – French Wikipedia link) posted a video on Youtube showing how he created the February 8 strip for his blog – watch it, and be amazed at [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, April 13, 2011
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I love James Kochalka’s work, especially his comics diary American Elf, delighted to see this good, long video of James, including some of his music works (link via Tom at Comic Reporter): James Kochalka Superstar from Rune Mielonen Grassov on Vimeo.
Continue reading...Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Mitch Breitweiser has posted another of his cool time lapse videos of his drawing, this time he’s creating a version of Mike Allred’s Madman for Comic Twart: MADMAN from Mitch Breitweiser on Vimeo.
Continue reading...Monday, April 11, 2011
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The Blade Runner scene where Deckard uses his home TV/computer system to analyse a replicant’s photograph, updated for the modern computer age (via Live For Film):
Continue reading...Monday, April 11, 2011
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This short Superman spoof from Arunas Eimulis is brief but funny and I love the deliberately awful vintage style, inspired, so it says, by the”Turkish trash movies of the 70s”, a fun way to start the working week: Super M adventures part I – Graffiti vandals from Arunas Eimulis on Vimeo.
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