Golden Age Comic Book Stories deserves study each and every day. Recent gems:
NC Wyeth’s Charlemagne illustrations in three parts:
Original covers illustrations for Edgar Rice Burroughs Mars series. Above A Princess of Mars by Frank E. Schoonover. Amusing to see these books with a Pre-Raphaelite spin.
During web surfing we came across a blog by Steve Heller at Print Magazine. Heller is the former art director of the NYT Book Review, and his blog in turn led us to this page of Art Deco ads collected by illustrator Bob Staake. Many other treasures to be found in the links.
It seems that Hot Topic has stated selling a t-shirt which is a dead ringer for one created by cartoonist Jess Fink. She isn’t taking it lying down.
I’m sorry but I really don’t think this design is coincidentally or simply inspired by clip art. Things right down to the pose of the character and the look of the feet and hands are the same, even the color. I do not know if you know this guys, but most soap is white. Why not make your rip off soap blue or white? I am not trying to give any ideas to any further assholes, I am trying to point out how blatantly similar this crap is.
Fink’s original t-shirt was sold on the Threadless site, and she reports they will pursue action against Hot Topic. A friend of Fink’s created the above banner which many sites are posting in solidarity.
More info here, including mention of another t-shirt designer we can’t talk about here.
Well we’ve run out of room and time yet again today, so we’ll leave you with the link to the most excellent new art blog of Roarin’ Rick Veitch which we’re told has enough material to run for YEARS. Above, the one and only Miracleman.
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Lea Hernandez posts a picture of a tattoo based on her Cloud Monkey art.
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Arena Studios presents…
Demimonde: The Art of Molly Crabapple
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on
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Work hangs from February 8 to April 4
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In the 19th century, the term “Demimonde” referred to the world of the theatre, of bohemia and of high-end sex-work: where style was traded for money and class transgression was possible- though often at great personal cost. As the American safety net falls apart, we’re once again turning to the Demimonde for consolation.
The idea of a series of Ivan Brunetti banners lining the streets of Las Vegas sounds like a fever dream.
Comics rule.
Rick Veitch has printed up a new batch of t-shirts based on his classic superhero noir, BRAT PACK. To promote the shirts, he’s created a whole gallery showing how classic images might have been improved by the aaddition of a Brat Pack t-shirt.
See more images and find out how to buy your own shirt here.
§ Kate Hudson will star in Big Eyes a film about the painter Margaret Keane . Keane is credited with developing the seminal style for sentimental big-eyed waif and animal paintings — a style that was so popular that her husband actually took credit with it for a while until she sued him — and won in court by painting right in front of the jury.
Above, Tiger Prince ©2008 Margaret Keane
§ Also, Toho is planning a trilogy of films based on manga maverick Naoki Urasawa’s 20th CENTURY BOY. The story is about a convenience store clerk who uncovers a science fiction conspiracy. Toshiaki Karasawa stars.
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Jacob Covey has a blog for the second edition of BEASTS! and it’s mouthwatering. Above,
Sea Monster and Bigfoot by Josh Cochran from a non-Beasts! illo job.
The New Yorker’s Flickr competition to design a new Eustace Tilley is over. Click link for all entries. Above, the incomparable Ape Lad.
Via the D&W blog: Chris Ware is having an art show this Friday :
This Friday, February 1st on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, the Adam Baumgold Gallery will be hosting a reception from 6-8 PM for Chris Ware’s new exhibition “Drawings For New York Periodicals.” Check our event page for more information and the Adam Baumgold website for a preview. The above image is the double sided exhibition poster which will be available at the Baumgold Gallery, signed and unsigned.
How much we love Tomer Hanuka. New gruesome work from his blog/
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A detail from JESUS AND THE BEAR by Jim Woodring. Clickee for whole thing.
§ Paul Dini explains the “animation feature template”:
Your primary objective as a modern animation feature storyteller is to get the audience members emotionally charged (i.e., distracted from logic gaps and not thinking too much) so they will be ready for your big finale. This usually consists of the hero defeating the villain (almost always by some initial violent action of the villain that the hero has “cleverly” used to boomerang back on the bad guy; real heroes never being allowed to slay dragons on their own these days) and the villain falling to their death from a great height, the only acceptable way for a baddie to meet their end in a cartoon (Gaston, Frollo, the bear in “The Fox & The Hound,” Scar, the poacher in “Rescuers II”, anyone notice a trend here?). If the villain can trip over the edge while trying to get in one last cowardly stab at the hero, so much the better. The demise of the bad guy puts everyone in a good mood, so the sidekicks fire up the juke box, or strike up the band, or simply break into song, and while the hero and heroine share a modest kiss, everyone rocks out over the end credits.
By the way, when we worked at Disney we called this “Death by topple.” It is lethal to bad guys.
§Josh Neufeld talks about working with Harvey Pekar:
Way back, when I did my very first Splendor story, I got Harvey to send me reference photos of one of the other characters in the piece. But as the years went by, I just began winging it, or swiping characters and interiors from previous issues of American Splendor. The only “reference” I use now are some shots of Harvey I cobbled together from the Internet, the work of other artists, or — horrors! — popping in the DVD of the film and using that. And even though I’ve drawn many stories set in his house, I tend to be dissatisfied with what I’ve done before and usually do something different each time. In essence, every time I draw a new A.S. story, Harvey’s pad undergoes an extreme makeover (sans Ty Pennington)! The only consistencies are the books, magazines, and newspapers piled everywhere, and the general air of post-bohemian shabbiness.
§ Rediscovered hot cartoonist Frank Santoro is interviewed at Blog @ and remembers the 90s:
There was no Giant Robot. They had just started actually. APE had just started. I went to the first couple of APEs. Everything was positive, it was cool, but it was just … I got a call from Mike Richardson in ‘96. Mike Richardson at Dark Horse called me. “Loved the story. It was a great book. Let us know what you’re up to.” I felt like this was great, I have an open door whenever. Then, when I knock on their door a year and a half later with whatever I was working on, the industry was falling apart. Heroes World and all this shit with the distributors was going on. I had a conversation with Gary Groth a couple of years ago, he found a letter from me and a sample from 1998. He had never opened it until 2004. Those guys were busy worrying about whether their companies were going to survive more so than putting out new work.
§ We never remember seeing an in-depth interview with with IDW Publisher Chris Ryall before:
Well, it’s safe to say that “Transformers” outsells books like “Supermarket” or “Smoke,” but as far as attracting attention goes, I’d say that that varies on the buyer. What I mean is, to the “Smoke” or “Supermarket” buyer, those are the kinds of books we publish. They’re maybe not as likely to also be reading “Transformers” comics. People that like our horror comics probably feel the same way. So all these books attract their own types of attention, and don’t really take away from one another. I think the sheer array of books you cited above shows a nice balance, just in the types of material we make available. We used to be primarily seen as a horror publisher, but now we offer so many different types of books to different audiences. I’m really proud of that fact.
AND: § Walt and Weezie Simonson profiled
§ Watchmen extra spills guts
§ There are many interviews with Marjane Satrapi floating around. Here is one of them.
Warren Ellis’s new Whitechapel message board hasn’t yet evolved into the kind of runaway train that his previous forums have — perhaps the simple, glacial interface helps to maintain that. However, Ellis is promoting it more on his mailing list, and he urged indie creators to show off their work in a recent thread. You can quickly scroll down 50 posts or so, and get a kind of kinescopic view of what people are doing, wishing and hoping for. Most of the stuff is what could be called either “d.i.y.”, charitably, or “hobbyist” uncharitably, but there is some gold among the dross. We rather liked this cover for FALL OF CTHULU DOMINION #4 by Tim Hamilton.
We would also like someone to take K. Thor Jensen up on this:
And here is a preview image from my next book, “Cloud Stories,” out when I can hoodwink somebody into paying to print a 100-page book about clouds, cloud-like forms and cloud-influenced behavior.
But then, you knew that.
Yesterday’s NY Times magazine cover by Adrian Tomine.
Link via the D&Q blog.
The New Yorker is running a Flickr contest for new versions of their mascot, Eustace Tilley . Above, one of Ape Lad’s fine contributions.
Eustace Tilley appeared on our first cover, in 1925, and has returned for nearly every anniversary issue since. Create your own version of The New Yorker’s iconic dandy for a chance to be featured on newyorker.com in celebration of our 83rd anniversary next month.
To enter, upload a jpeg of your interpretation of Eustace Tilley, at a minimum resolution of 72 dpi. Maximum file size is 1 megabyte. There is a limit of five entries per person/per e-mail address.
ALL ENTRIES MUST BE RECEIVED BY JANUARY 24, 2008, AT 9 A.M. EASTERN TIME.
Visit www.newyorker.com/go/tilley for more information and complete contest rules.
the amazing ASIFA-Hollywood Animation website lists ten great things you should study in depth:
Above: Art by Carlo Vinci.
Here’s an LA art show we just heard about which looks very entertaining — a tribute to Stan Lee by various Juxtapoz-type artists at LA”s Gallery 1988. We spotted the above, by Israel Sanchez on the Flight Blog. More sample art and info at the Gallery 1988 blog including Joshua Clay, left.
The opening is January 8th, and Lee will be in attendance.
Speaking of the New Yorker, check out this gallery of holiday covers over the years.
Above, Ilonka Karasz from 1938. Below, Joost Swarte, 2007.
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