Natwick and the three-fingered hand
The ASIFA blog asks one of the great ineffable questions, "Who invented the three-fingered hand?" An essay by animation legend Grim Natwick explains:
Someone...
Spot the future superstar with Nick Bertozzi and O. Henry Anthology
Cartoonist and SVA teacher Nick Bertozzi posts the results of some homework. His comics storytelling class was assigned the test of adapting a...
A new generation comes of age
Today's "It Kids" of snark and anti-establishmentarianism, Tucker and Nina Stone, are interviewed by Chris Mautner at Blog@Newsarama. Depending on your point of view,...
Bob Staake creates a cover
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Watch legendary illustrater Bob Staake create this week's New Yorker cover in this video. Apparently his process is quite amazing, according to Drawn!...
More INCAL coloring
Reader Pepo points us to this site, with examples of recolored Moebius. On the top, Yves Chaland; below, Valerie Beltran.
This is not as...
Bad coloring
UPDATE: Thanks to the corrections offered in the gentle manner that the Internet is known for, we've corrected the credits for the above weirdness...
Color Quandaries #2: The Barks Affair
Excitement ran high on various message boards when an Amazon listing was found for The Carl Barks Collection Set 1, to be published...
Color Quandaries #1: Killing Joke
There's a handsome new hardcover edition of THE KILLING JOKE by Alan Moore and Brian Bolland out, featuring remastered color by Bolland. PopCultureShock has...
Editing notes: Shonen Jump, Brevoort
Shonen Jump editor in chief Masahiko Ibaraki recalls his career, including the early years:
Each editor is assigned a mangaka to work with. The first...
So you wanna break into comics…
Tony Lee's He's Only A Writer column at Comics Bulletin surveys a bunch of folks, including Lee Nordling, Andy Schmidt, Rob Levin, Joshua Hale...
Sound advice from Brian Wood
Speaking of SPLAT, the New York Post (!) previews the event with a cheeky lede: BESIDES all the usual dreams young people move...
Jeff Smith on whether he tastes great or is less filling
New York Mag's Vulture bloginterviews Jeff Smith today and they bring up where he sees himself on the spectrum of comics:
This fall, a...
