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META BENEFIT: ‘Twin Peaks’ Meets ‘Scott Pilgrim’ to help Puerto Rico

10/05/2017 10:15 am by Heidi MacDonald

META BENEFIT: ‘Twin Peaks’ Meets ‘Scott Pilgrim’ to help Puerto Rico

I haven’t gotten around to finishing Twin Peaks The Return yet, but here’s a piece of benefit art that is sufficiently weird and meta to go along with the show. It’s a drawing of Wally Brando by Bryan Lee O’Malley. What does that mean? Wally Brando was a character on Twin Peaks the Return, the […]

Filed Under: Art, Benefits Tagged With: Art, Bryan Lee O'Malley, michael cera, puerto rico, Scott Pilgrim, twin peaks the return, wally brando

NSS: Sega Wants to Publish Your Art in One of Their Biggest 2018 Releases.

09/17/2017 7:36 pm by Davey Nieves

NSS: Sega Wants to Publish Your Art in One of Their Biggest 2018 Releases.

This weekend I’m agonizing over what review score Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite has earned. Before that happens on Monday, I wanted to share something interesting for aspiring artists who happen to be fans of Japanese crime culture.  Video game publisher, Sega is looking for fan art inspired by its long-running Yakuza game series. SEGA has teamed […]

Filed Under: Art, Video Games Tagged With: Art, No Spandex Saturday, Sega, Video Games, Yakuza, Yakuza 6

NO SPANDEX SATURDAY: It’s Not Dead 2, the return of punk rock and the arts to southern California.

07/29/2017 12:00 pm by Davey Nieves

NO SPANDEX SATURDAY: It’s Not Dead 2, the return of punk rock and the arts to southern California.

2015 saw the debut of a new music festival for the punk rock loving crowd. Featuring headliners such as the Descendents and NOFX, It’s Not Dead was one of the best single days of music one could experience. It may have taken a little bit of time but the festival will be having its sophomore […]

Filed Under: Events, Music Tagged With: #ItsNotDeadFest, Art, Conventions, Music, punk

SDCC ’17: Mark Evanier and Others Discuss What Makes for Good Cover Art

07/25/2017 11:00 am by Nicholas Eskey

SDCC ’17: Mark Evanier and Others Discuss What Makes for Good Cover Art

The phrase goes, “Don’t judge a book by its cover.” I don’t know anyone who follows it. For that reason, an eye-catching cover is necessary to catch the eyes of potential buyers. At this year’s San Diego Comic-Con, Mark Evanier (Jack Kirby historian and a comic legend in his own right) collected five comic book […]

Filed Under: News, Process, SDCC '17, Top News Tagged With: Art, Arthur Adams, artist, artists, comic-con, Comics, cover, design, erica henderson, joe staton, Joyce Chin, mark evanier, Mike Grell, Process, San Diego, SDCC, sdcc '17, SDCC'17, Variant

The Pushpin brings you gallery quality art from top creators without the comic con travel.

06/07/2017 4:00 pm by Davey Nieves

The Pushpin brings you gallery quality art from top creators without the comic con travel.

Toronto’s Papergirl Press is launching The Pushpin, a curated website of collectible, high-quality giclée prints for sale by acclaimed graphic novel artists — including Kate Beaton (Hark! A Vagrant), Johnnie Christmas (Angel Catbird), Michael Cho (Shoplifter), Valentine De Landro (Bitch Planet) and Jeff Lemire (Royal City) — and acclaimed editorial illustrators Julia Breckenreid, Dani Crosby, […]

Filed Under: Art, Comics, News Tagged With: Art, Comics, Gallery Art, Papergirl Press, The Pushpin

San Diego’s Little Fish Comic Studio Is Educating A New Generation of Fans, Artists, and Writers

04/20/2017 1:00 pm by Nicholas Eskey

San Diego’s Little Fish Comic Studio Is Educating A New Generation of Fans, Artists, and Writers

In recent years, more teachers and librarians are finally recognizing the educational appeal of comic-books. Yes, we the fans have known of their artistry, their (mostly) great writing, and the sheer enjoyment they illicit, but for many other adults, it still seems like a “nonsense medium.” Perhaps for this reason it is why places like […]

Filed Under: Comings & Goings, Featured, Kids' comics, Literacy, Literary Comics, News, Small Presses, Top News Tagged With: Alonso Nunez, Art, artist, book, Books, comic, Comics, fish, graphic, How To, Independent, KPBS, literacy, Little, Little Fish, Little Fish Comic Studio, novel, students, studio, teaching, write, writer, writing

Nice Art: RIP Tyrus Wong, Bambi designer and so much more

01/02/2017 10:00 am by Heidi MacDonald

Nice Art: RIP Tyrus Wong, Bambi designer and so much more

Last week, artist Tyrus Wong died at age 106, and Margalit Fox has an astounding obituary of an amazing life: A Hollywood studio artist, painter, printmaker, calligrapher, greeting-card illustrator and, in later years, maker of fantastical kites, he was one of the most celebrated Chinese-American artists of the 20th century. From his start as a […]

Filed Under: Art, Disney Tagged With: Art, Disney, tyrus wong

Mariah Carey isn’t too good at art revisions, either

01/01/2017 3:00 pm by Heidi MacDonald

Mariah Carey isn’t too good at art revisions, either

If you were watching Ryan Secreast’s rockin’ New Year’s Eve last night you saw Mariah Carey’s incredible lip sync fail. I don’t know what was more uncomfortable, watching Carey prance around in what had to be uncomfortable shape wear, or her “I give up!” reaction to not being able to hear the music in her […]

Filed Under: Art, Working for a Living Tagged With: Art

Dave Sim’s wrist injury may prevent him from ever drawing again

12/19/2016 2:30 pm by Heidi MacDonald

Dave Sim’s wrist injury may prevent him from ever drawing again

Dave Sim’s injured wrist means he may not be able to draw again, so he’s enlisted two cartoonists to help him with The Strange Death of Alex Raymond

Filed Under: Art, Cartoonists Tagged With: Art, Cartoonists, Cerebus, Dave Sim, the strange death of alex raymond

This March the Archie Universe Expands with Four One-Shots

12/13/2016 2:03 pm by Alexander Jones

This March the Archie Universe Expands with Four One-Shots

The world of Archie has been expanding with CW’s Riverdale and the recently rebooted comic book universe. The publishing universe is growing this March with four brand new one-shots focusing on a wide-range of the Archie supporting cast and worlds. EW broke the news this morning. The series includes a return to the Afterlife with Archie […]

Filed Under: Archie, Comics, News, Publishers, Top Comics Tagged With: afterlife with archie, Archie, Art, Franco, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, The Archies

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