Comments on: Mike Kaluta’s MADAME XANADU pentaptych http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2009/07/03/mike-kalutas-madame-xanadu-triptych/ The News Blog of Comics Culture Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:10:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Mark Sahagian (Hack Cartoonist!) http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2009/07/03/mike-kalutas-madame-xanadu-triptych/#comment-3492863 Tue, 28 Jul 2009 19:01:09 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2009/07/03/mike-kalutas-madame-xanadu-triptych/#comment-3492863 Kaluta is the best! Kaluta is the best!

]]> by: Torsten Adair http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2009/07/03/mike-kalutas-madame-xanadu-triptych/#comment-3437499 Sun, 05 Jul 2009 13:32:41 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2009/07/03/mike-kalutas-madame-xanadu-triptych/#comment-3437499 Mr. Busiek is correct, although he forgot to mention the fractional values, used to describe details of larger works. For example... those cute Raphaelic angels you see on coffee mugs and calendars? That is a deciptych. One measures the area of the detail against the area of the original work. While Base-10 notation is the most common system, any whole number can be used (such as the Base-9 system used to analyze Watchmen). Some have experimented with irrational numbers, reverse engineering comics which use square roots, pi, psi, and Euler's number. (This was inspired by the use of logarithms, which is simply a different way of looking at exponentials.) Oh... cool looking covers. The recent Radioactive Man crossover was cool, too, actually told a story across three covers! Mr. Busiek is correct, although he forgot to mention the fractional values, used to describe details of larger works. For example… those cute Raphaelic angels you see on coffee mugs and calendars? That is a deciptych. One measures the area of the detail against the area of the original work. While Base-10 notation is the most common system, any whole number can be used (such as the Base-9 system used to analyze Watchmen). Some have experimented with irrational numbers, reverse engineering comics which use square roots, pi, psi, and Euler’s number. (This was inspired by the use of logarithms, which is simply a different way of looking at exponentials.)

Oh… cool looking covers. The recent Radioactive Man crossover was cool, too, actually told a story across three covers!

]]> by: pulphope http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2009/07/03/mike-kalutas-madame-xanadu-triptych/#comment-3437048 Sat, 04 Jul 2009 18:40:39 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2009/07/03/mike-kalutas-madame-xanadu-triptych/#comment-3437048 Nice to see Kaluta kicking ass. Bravo, Mike! Village Comics down on Sullivan St. in NYC had one of Mike's B&W Statstruck posters hanging on the wall for a year or so-- I'd go and admire it and planned to buy it eventually-- when I went back to get it, somebody else got it first. Miss that place-- it's an Apt. Broker's office now, bland and sterile like a dentist's office. Nice to see Kaluta kicking ass. Bravo, Mike!

Village Comics down on Sullivan St. in NYC had one of Mike’s B&W Statstruck posters hanging on the wall for a year or so– I’d go and admire it and planned to buy it eventually– when I went back to get it, somebody else got it first.

Miss that place– it’s an Apt. Broker’s office now, bland and sterile like a dentist’s office.

]]> by: Alan Coil http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2009/07/03/mike-kalutas-madame-xanadu-triptych/#comment-3436599 Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:54:39 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2009/07/03/mike-kalutas-madame-xanadu-triptych/#comment-3436599 F***in' Busiek knows everything. Must be why he always win. :) F***in’ Busiek knows everything. Must be why he always win. :)

]]> by: Synsidar http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2009/07/03/mike-kalutas-madame-xanadu-triptych/#comment-3436481 Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:14:02 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2009/07/03/mike-kalutas-madame-xanadu-triptych/#comment-3436481 An art blogger has <a href="http://fantasy-ink.blogspot.com/2009/02/michael-kaluta.html" rel="nofollow">three Kaluta covers</a> from the 1978 series DOORWAY TO NIGHTMARE, in which Madame Xanadu first appeared. The covers can be clicked on to see larger versions. SRS An art blogger has three Kaluta covers from the 1978 series DOORWAY TO NIGHTMARE, in which Madame Xanadu first appeared. The covers can be clicked on to see larger versions.

SRS

]]> by: Kurt Busiek http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2009/07/03/mike-kalutas-madame-xanadu-triptych/#comment-3436474 Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:40:43 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2009/07/03/mike-kalutas-madame-xanadu-triptych/#comment-3436474 It's a polyptych -- specifically, a pentaptych. "Penta" rather than "quinti" because it uses Greek roots rather than Latin. diptych triptych tetraptych pentaptych hexaptych heptaptych octaptych And aside from what kind of ptych it is, it's gorgeous. The interiors, too -- I've only seen the first issue so far, but Kaluta's art is better than ever. kdb It’s a polyptych — specifically, a pentaptych. “Penta” rather than “quinti” because it uses Greek roots rather than Latin.

diptych
triptych
tetraptych
pentaptych
hexaptych
heptaptych
octaptych

And aside from what kind of ptych it is, it’s gorgeous. The interiors, too — I’ve only seen the first issue so far, but Kaluta’s art is better than ever.

kdb

]]> by: Brian http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2009/07/03/mike-kalutas-madame-xanadu-triptych/#comment-3436464 Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:13:04 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2009/07/03/mike-kalutas-madame-xanadu-triptych/#comment-3436464 A "quintych"? A most gorgeous image. Poster, DC, please? Cheers, B A “quintych”?

A most gorgeous image. Poster, DC, please?

Cheers,

B

]]> by: Brian Hibbs http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2009/07/03/mike-kalutas-madame-xanadu-triptych/#comment-3436436 Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:20:40 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2009/07/03/mike-kalutas-madame-xanadu-triptych/#comment-3436436 Five covers aren't a "Triptych", are they? -B Five covers aren’t a “Triptych”, are they?

-B

]]> by: Steve Taylor http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2009/07/03/mike-kalutas-madame-xanadu-triptych/#comment-3436417 Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:47:40 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2009/07/03/mike-kalutas-madame-xanadu-triptych/#comment-3436417 Ya' can't get that on your cell phone. Ya’ can’t get that on your cell phone.

]]> by: Christopher Moonlight's Jaw Just Dropped http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2009/07/03/mike-kalutas-madame-xanadu-triptych/#comment-3436404 Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:08:30 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2009/07/03/mike-kalutas-madame-xanadu-triptych/#comment-3436404 This is so beautiful. This is why comics will always be where it's at. This is so beautiful. This is why comics will always be where it’s at.

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