Tag: Art
SDCC ’16: Alex Ross Fine Arts debuts new two story booth
Looks like the highrise race is hitting the Comic-Con floor as well as skylines around the world. We already heard that DC will be...
This Jim Woodring animated SPX poster is the trippiest thing you’ll see today
Via the SPX tumblr, a reminder that once San Diego Comic-COn is over it'll be straight to the fall show line-up including the annual...
Ronald Wimberly on asking artists for sample pages for free
On Tumblr, artist Ronald Wimberly wrote a very cogent post on why artists should get paid to do sample pages:
A quick preface: Yesterday a friend...
Help Out of Step Arts win a small business grant
We've covered Out of Steps Arts here a few times before. OOSA is an art collective that offers prints from some talented artists...
2016 Russ Manning Award nominees are announced and three of them are women
The wave of promising young female cartoonists that we've all been seeing change the face of comics got a bit of an endorsement with the release of this year's nominees for the Russ Manning the Russ Manning Promising Newcomer Award.
The Manning Award, as it's commonly know, is presented every year at the San Diego Comic-Con as part of the Eisner Awards to "a comics artist who, early in his or her career, shows a superior knowledge and ability in the art of creating comics."
The 2016 nominees are:
Review: Japanese artist Rokudenashiko charts the real obscenity in her memoir
Just yesterday it was reported that a Japanese court had found artist Rokudenashiko’s vagina figurines to be considered art and not obscenity, but less...
Chester Brown vs the Bible: The final chapter
Regular Beat readers know I'm OBSESSED with Chester Brown's Mary Wept Over The Feet of Jesus. For many years, I've generally admired Brown's work,...
Frank Miller, James Harvey, the art of coloring, the artists reputation and….a mystery
The other day we told you about a Frank Miller DKIII variant cover that had everyone talking about its (depending on your point of view) minimalist and/or shockingly incompetent art style.
After some twitter discussion, artist James Harvey took it upon himself to show that Miller's recent work might be suffering from a misplaced coloring esthetic.
And then all hell broke loose.
Frank Miller is at it again as his variant to DKIII #4 has everyone...
A Frank Miller variant cover for this weeks Dark Knight III issue #4 has come under fire on twitter.
All of Miller's variants for DKIII...
Russ Manning Award submissions are now open
The Russ Manning Promising Newcomer Award is presented annually to a talented new artist, and submissions have opened with a May 27 deadline. All...
Review: Silent parable The Ark is science fiction as sacred text
This silent, black and white work from French artist Stephane Levallois, and the publisher Humanoids, best known for his storyboard work on films like...
Comic artists on canvas: POW! art show in Brooklyn
Looking for something to do in New York City on this grey Saturday? How about a little cultured comic artist appreciation?
