John K.: Good Compositions Take Self Control
Speaking of N.C. Wyeth, John K., whose blog we don't link to nearly often enough, compares the illustration great to Yogi Bear in order...
Souther Salazar's Last Year's Man
The awesomely amazing Souther Salazar has a new show up at the Jonathan Levine Gallery, and you can view it online here. Beautiful stuff.
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Art Alert: Jeff Soto's Inland Empire
SoCal artist Jeff Soto is currently on exhibit in London at the Stolen Spaces Gallery, with a show called "Inland Empire", and its images...
Internet vacation
We're taking a little R&R for the next few days, and maybe even taking a much needed internet/Twitter-cation. Check back daily for special features...
Tintoretto Tintin?
Worth1000 is a website that runs Photoshopping contests, and occasionally they run one that's right in our wheelhouse, like this one, which asks folks...
M. Wartella's "Requiem for a Paper Bag" cover
Alt.cartoonist/illustrator M. Wartella kindly sent along a copy of his wraparound cover for FOUND Magazine's new literary anthology Requiem For A Paper Bag edited...
Jean Schulz gives $1 million to Ohio State
A nice story, via pr, about Jean Schulz, widow of Charles M. Schulz, making a big donation to Ohio State's Cartoon Library and Museum,...
PictureBox Gallery launches
Dan Nadel writes to tell us of a new art site, the PictureBox Gallery, that should repay more than a few visits. We are...
Cool Stuff: Parker preview by Darwyn Cooke
The first of three adaptations of Richard Stark’s Parker novels by Darwyn Cooke is coming out this summer, and IDW has a preview of...
What happened to Anne Cleveland
In 2006, on the old Beat, I wrote a post called "Women in Comics: Who is Anne Cleveland?" and I wondered if there hadn't...
Actor shocker: Writing comics is HARD!
Among its many interviews with nerdlebrities enamored of the wonderful world of comics, MTV's Splash Page caught up with James Marsters, formerly of Buffy...
C for Coloring
Over at his blog, David Lloyd talks about the coloring on V FOR VENDETTA:
In my view, what had prompted Dick to offer me that...
