Art

The Lucky in Love cartoonist/animator gets a well deserved art show plus book signing.

Photo by Shawn Hoke. More Nara on view at the Asia Society.

More here: Emma Is a Pirate: Via Richard Cook.

Via David Chelsea , his art for the annual Wonder Woman Day auction:

This year’s piece of original art (or one of many others contributed by superstar cartoonists like Jamie Hernandez, David Lloyd and Roberta Gregory) can be yours. You can view the piece big here. The Wonder Woman Day silent auction will take place Sunday October 24th at Excalibur Comics in Portland. You can also bid online. Details at the Wonder Woman Day website.

RETURN OF THE DAPPER MEN is a very unusual-looking graphic novel by Jim McCann and Janet Lee that comes out later this year -- Lee's wooden board collage art has been quite a conversation topic on the convention circuit this year. Prior to the book's debut, McCann has released pin-up art; here's one by illustrator John Tyler Christopher.

Blow-Up: September 1 – October 16, 2010 Opening reception: Friday, September 10, 2010 6:30 pm. SOCIETY OF ILLUSTRATORS 128 East 63 Street, New York City.  

Get there before December 12th.

Via Flickr. We really want that VIP one this year!

A few days ago, we linked to Scott Morse's sweet poster for the ATP film festival that's being held this November, and suspected more cool old movie posters by cartoonists were forthcoming. Well, just call us Salander, because earlier today, Morse retweeted a link from Criterion to a huge photo of the whole collection, which includes posters by (squinting hard) Kate Beaton, Scott Campbell, Connor Willumsen, Robert Goodin, Jason Latour, Francesco Francavilla and many more. We're trying to get some images of the rest of the flyer, because they look amazing! The whole giant image is in the second link.

Looking to get high today? What If Kirby is a new site devoted to new, detailed, mind-blasting scans of Jack Kirby's artwork, and honestly just a few minutes of browsing sent The Beat tripping into new realms. Purchase of a membership in the Jack Kirby Museum & Research Center gives access to the real hard stuff however: even bigger scans.

We've done it! Jim Woodring's giant steel dip pen -- to be used for drawing demonstrations and healing the lame -- has been funded! Plans are underway, and Woodring has moves to the next phase: How The Giant Pen Will Work.

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