Russ Manning Award Spotlight: Martin Coccolo
Our spotlight of the five artists nominated for this year's Russ Manning Award shifts across to Uruguay's Martin Coccolo, who draws cowboys and monsters. Yay!
Wolverine Enjoys Spring Break with Latour and Rodriguez
Jason Latour and Robbi Rodriguez put Wolverine in the corner
Russ Manning Award Spotlight: Craig Cermak
The Russ Manning Awards Draw Closer. Here's a quick rundown of nominee Craig Cernak
Nice art: Mystery Justice League concept art
A concept artist who worked on BATMAN: ARKHAM ASYLUM has posted some Justice League concept art that could be just an afternoon doodle...or something else? It's definitely a more video-game esque and robust take on the characters. Our guess: something toyetic.
Adam Kubert draws the (heroic) Phoenix Five for AvX Variant Cover
Marvel's variant cover for Avengers Vs X-Men #8 shows Cyclops and chums having a lovely time
Nice art: Paul Gulacy and Charles Yoakum storyboard Toby Keith
Charles Yoakum has posted some storyboards by himself and Paul Gulacy for an animation featuring country singer Toby Keith.
Nice art: Steve McNiven's drug cartel illustrations
"A Tijuana farmer known as the Stewmaker and allied with a Sinaloa subsidiary disposed of his victims’ bodies in vats of lye."
2012 Russ Manning Award nominees announced
The nominees for this year's Russ Manning Award—a sort of "most promising newcomer" for artists—have been announced and they are:
Nice art: Eldon Dedini doodles
Meanwhile, what is going on over at the Billy Ireland collection of comics and cartoon art? Oh just some doodles by Playboy/New Yorker cartoonistEldon Dedini like this one of painter Diego Rivera. Dedini donated his art archives to the collection before his death.
Whatever happened to the superstar artist?
At iFanboy, Josh Flanagan brings up an issue that we often mention at BarCon:Are There Any Superstar Comic Artists Left?:
Nice art: John K draws Crystal and Johnny Storm
Some T-shirt art done for Stussy a while ago. Via Boing Boing,
which has more recent art for a new Stussy project.
