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.
Weekend reading: Saturday Morning Webtoons
J. Bone! J. Torres! Eric Orchard! Agnes Garbowska! All these cartoonists and more can be found at Saturday Morning Webtoons, an all ages comics portal. Among the strips featured:
Frank Quitely covers Walking Dead #100
Frank Quitely has provided a variant cover for the landmark issue, which will be released at Comic-Con.
Creepy!
Nice, er, Historical art: Indie Cover Spotlight
Dara Naraghi has been running a features on his blog called Indie Cover Spotlight where he goes through his longboxes and pulls out the amazing, unlikely, and just plain forgotten indie comics of yore, say, like this cover of something called STAR RANGERS by Dave Dorman, a loving tribute to Fredric Wertham.
Introducing: the AlphaBooks project
Ben Towle is at it again, organizing another alphabetical tour through some delightful category. Last time it was fantastic beasts; this time, it's fictional characters, and it's called AlphaBooks. Towle kicks it off with A is for Captain Ahab and a quote on his blog fromMoby Dick:
The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails, whereon my soul is grooved to run.
Nice art: Danny Hellman
Danny Hellman—one of the signature art styles in the New York illustration world until that went kerflooey. The Holy Yost has a shout-out.
Nice art: John Cebollero
Artist John Cebollero has a new sketchbook out called DEEP DRAG. IF you're a fan of deeply caustic Will Elder/Richard Corben-inspired comics art, Cebollero is the man for you.
