Tag: Art

Prolific cover artist and painter Earl Norem has passed away at age 91 as reported on Facebook by family members including his daughter: As my...

Every Friday, Alex counts down the top five panels & sequences in comics released this week.   Spoilers follow, obviously. 5) Prez #1 Did you know that, if you live...

Or rather, his 10-year-old daughter Clara does. In commentary on his cover for this week's New Yorker the Building Stories master—and the graphic novelist...

Every Friday, Alex counts down the top five panels & sequences in comics released this week.   This week was fantastic, featuring some really outlandish scenes, comedic...

While the San Diego Convention Center expansion looks to be dead in the water, Comic-Con International isn't stopping on its moves to expand the...

Artist and teacher Glen Orbik passed away yesterday after a battle with cancer,. He was either 51 or 52 (Wikipedia says he was born...

The column that judges a book by its cover, focusing on the month's best-designed comic covers. For the month's best-illustrated comic covers, see Best...

I've been raving about all the great comics art that was up at the Society of Illustrators during April for the MoCCA fest, but they're not stopping with Alt.Comix, Little Nemo and Craig Yoe. The new exhibit is a show of Hugo Pratt art. The creator of Corto Maltese is one of the all time great comics illustrators and this sounds like a must see. The show runs until June 13th, so get on down!

The column that judges a book by its cover, focusing on the month's best-designed comic covers. For the month's best-illustrated comic covers, see Best...

It's almost quitting time here in EDT so let's leave the week with something FUN for a change. Why just do a comic book based on a classically of it time TV show when you can reinvent it as an acid trip that bends time and space? And hooray for licensors who let you get away with it. Miami Vice: Remix by Joe Casey and Jim Mahfood is anything but a dull TV show comic...it's an audacious tale on tropes and icons, and a gem in the Lion Forge line-up.

This is sad but not surprising—given the insane rise in real estate prices in San Francisco, it was only a matter of time before the Cartoon Art Museum, which occupied a spacious and accessible spot near Market Street has been evicted so its space can be converted to something expensive and greedy. The museum will stay open until June 28th, and in a release they note that the move was not unexpected and they had already begun preparations, just like Cutter and Skywise.

By Nick Eskey For the three years that WonderCon has been in the Anaheim convention center, I’ve been very fortunate to attend it. I say...