Jeffrey Brown’s Darth Vader and son covers
Back when we interviewed Jeffrey Brown about his movie at Sundance, he mentioned an upcoming humor book called Darth Vader and Son that features gentle humor on the topic of Darth as dad to Luke.
Continue ReadingNice art: Lauren Weinstein’s What You’re Really Doing
Lauren Weinstein offers helpful hints on how to interpret online profile pictures. More tips in the link.
Continue ReadingNice art: Who drew today’s Google Dickens doodle? Mike Dutton
You may have noticed Google's stylish doodle for the birthday of Charles Dickens today. But who drew it? an artist named Mike Dutton, who has previously worked on doodles for Richard Scarry, Mary Blair, the Royal Wedding, and the World Cup.
Continue ReadingLisa Hanawalt with the last word on The Super Bowl
The Puppy Bowl wasn’t so cute this year.
Continue ReadingNice art: Rokuro Taniuchi
Rokuro Taniushi is a Japanese illustrator of the '50s on who has been called "the kawaii Norman Rockwell of Japan" for painting some 1300 covers for the influential weekly magazine Shukan Shincho. Kawaii is the "cute" style of Japanese art, seen and deconstructed in everything from Hello Kitty to Murakami.
Continue ReadingNice art: THE YEAR OF THE DRAGON at Giant Robot
Giant Robot's YEAR OF THE DRAGON art exhibit, themed around this year's Chinese horoscope, is now online. It also serves as a farewell to BR employee Michelle Borok, who curated many exhibitions at the iconic LA store. You can view the entire exhibit here. Above, "Pink Mountains, Black Dragon" by Sara Saedi.
Continue ReadingNew funding strategy for comickers: borrow money from David Choe, the $200 million artist
David Choe, the eccentric and talented graffiti artist/painter who once flamed out as the artist on an X-Men spin-off, is now set to make about $200 million from the Facebook stock offering. It seems that back in the day Choe painted murals for Facebook's Palo Alto offices...and instead of taking a lump sum he asked for stock. As you may have heard, Facebook went public yesterday, and was quickly valued at $5 billion or so, making Choe's little decision one of the savviest moves ever by an art-type. “Always double down on 11. Always," Choe advises in a recent art book.
Continue ReadingNice art: Ulises Farinas on process
If you have been looking at comic art posts on the internet for long, you have probably at some time admired the intricate and imaginative illustrations of cartoonist Ulises Farinas and thought "How does he do it? Well, here's how in a detailed post on drawing a cover for Zupi magazine:
Continue ReadingNot for the easily offended: the art of Jason Karns
Artists Jim Rugg and Benjamin Marra have gone spelunking on the internet and discovered a fellow named Jason Karns, whose art is violent, sexualized, and mind bogglingly lively in that post-Al Feldstein/Mars Attacks/Dario Agento/Herschell Gordon Lewis way. Karns is interviewed at TCJ and here's his blog -- WARNING VERY VERY NSFW -- which previews his flagship title: FUKITOR.
Continue ReadingNice art: Afu Chan draws brawls like no one’s business
Who the heck is Afu Chan? He drew a story in SPERA, the fantasy anthology by Josh Tierney that also sports art by Kyla Vanderklugt, Hwei, and Emily Carroll, and was published by Archaia. But a glance at his Deviant Art page reveals an illustrator very much in the modern, pan-comics Moebius-inspired vein, but with violent, pastel brawls breaking out all over the place.
Continue ReadingDC’s peel logo now seen in action: How’s it working?
Starting with yesterday's highly corporate We Can Be Heroes press conference, DC Comics/Entertainment has been rolling out its new logo. It's seen briefly at the end of the WCBH video—but not in the eagerly awaited animated form, alas.
Continue ReadingMarvel unveils Art Appreciation Avengers variant covers
Every once in a while Marvel likes to get cultural by commissioing a bunch of variant covers in the style of great paintings. they've just done this with April's Avengers Art Appreciation Variants, which will whet your appetite for both the Avengers movie AND a trip to the local museum. Alex Maleev, Michael Kaluta, Gabriele Dell’Otto, Greg Horn, Gerald Parel and more channel Rembrandt, Michelangelo, Monet, Pollock, and Egon Schiele (one 'l'). Which one do you like best?
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NICE ART: Darth Vader can’t eat pie
And it makes him unhappy, writes artist Tim Kreider, who has just resumed weekly updates on his website.
Continue ReadingTran and Rea win Society of Illustrators medals
The Society of Illustrators, an august institution long devoted to the now-vanishing artform of magazine illustration, has in recent years presented medals in the Sequential category for comics-type stuff. this year's winners include a gold medal for GB Tran's VIETNAMERICA and a silver medal for Brian Rea's Modern Love, a series of illustrations for a NY Times column column on romance.
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