Art

At the time of her death in May, artist Jeffrey Catherine Jones was the subject of an upcoming documentary, Better Things. Director/producer Maria Cabardo writes to tell us that several minutes of footage will be shown at a panel at Comic-Con:

Artist Paolo Rivera recounts an amusing story of how he found himself on Google's Street Viewstanding in front of Jim Hanley's Universe. He adds some interesting tips on how he uses the service as an art reference:

At the risk of invoking the name K---B----- again, it should be noted that the characters created by B------, Carly Monardo and Meredith Gran have taken on a like of their own, with a Fan Art tumblr, a Twitter hashtag and a motto: "With Great Power Comes a Great Pair of Titties." Gary Tyrrell at Fleen has the complete rundown on strong females stuff.

Over the weekend, remembrances, and tributes continued to flow for Gene "The Dean" Colan, who died on Thursday. The most complete obituary we have is Tom Field's at TCJ, which cover his entire career, the triumphs, the problems with editors, and the artist's early embrace of the internet. While beloved of some writers and editors, Colan's style was not a natural for Marvel:

AVENGERS #65 -- it was another world.

Gorman's art tumblr has quite a few little animated gifs that work as storytelling devices. Clean and nice.

A private commission Via

Designing the Green Lantern Corps for the screen left veteran designer Neville Page spent with exertion -- it dwarfed his previous projects AVATAR, SUPER 8 and STAR TREK. To solve the problem, Page turned to the work of the comics giants who paved the way:

Artist Paolo Rivera was commissioned to create a special poster as a gift for the CAPTAIN AMERICA movie's cast and crew. This is the result:

The CCI folks have announced the 2011 nominees for Most Promising Newcomer, an art award that recognizes up and coming talent. Past winners include Dave Stevens, Jeff Smith, and David Petersen, so they have a pretty good track record. The nominees were selected by a committee and the winner (selected by past winners and Russ Manning assistants) will be announced July 22 during the Eisner award ceremony.

In case you were wondering, there WILL be other DC books besides The 52 in our future. For instance, , frequent Grant Morrison collaborator Frazer Irving, tweeted:

Elsewhere on the internets, Michael DeForge's cartoonist diarywrapped up at the Comics Journal with Risographs and such.