Tag: Art

Over the weekend, remembrances, and tributes continued to flow for Gene "The Dean" Colan, who died on Thursday. The most complete obituary we have is Tom Field's at TCJ, which cover his entire career, the triumphs, the problems with editors, and the artist's early embrace of the internet. While beloved of some writers and editors, Colan's style was not a natural for Marvel:

AVENGERS #65 -- it was another world.

Gorman's art tumblr has quite a few little animated gifs that work as storytelling devices. Clean and nice.

A private commission Via

Designing the Green Lantern Corps for the screen left veteran designer Neville Page spent with exertion -- it dwarfed his previous projects AVATAR, SUPER 8 and STAR TREK. To solve the problem, Page turned to the work of the comics giants who paved the way:

Artist Paolo Rivera was commissioned to create a special poster as a gift for the CAPTAIN AMERICA movie's cast and crew. This is the result:

The CCI folks have announced the 2011 nominees for Most Promising Newcomer, an art award that recognizes up and coming talent. Past winners include Dave Stevens, Jeff Smith, and David Petersen, so they have a pretty good track record. The nominees were selected by a committee and the winner (selected by past winners and Russ Manning assistants) will be announced July 22 during the Eisner award ceremony.

In case you were wondering, there WILL be other DC books besides The 52 in our future. For instance, , frequent Grant Morrison collaborator Frazer Irving, tweeted:

Elsewhere on the internets, Michael DeForge's cartoonist diarywrapped up at the Comics Journal with Risographs and such.

Artist Jock just tweeted this Joker cover for 'Tec and people went nuts. Can you blame them?

Marvel editor Steve Wacker was tweeting some art earlier in the day, including rather nice page by Emma Rios on the Cloak & Dagger Spider-Island tie-in. Clickee for largee!

With all the talk about comics and racial stereotypes, this show running at NYU sounds like a must see. MARVELS AND MONSTERS looks at images of Asians in comics from the stereotyping of World War II through to the 80s. Curator Jeff Yang has some installation in progress photos on his Facebook Page. Sadly we missed the opening talk and reception last night but it looks to be a very comprehensive show, looking at different stereotypical roles including The Alien, the Kamikaze, the Brute, the Lotus Blossom, the Guru, the Brain, the Temptress, and the Manipulator. How well we know all those. The show runs until August 19th. Deets below: