Tag: Art

Artist Josh Medors has been battling a rare form of spinal column cancer for several years. The Hero Initiative has been helping him for some time, and now they are teaming up with Marvel for a special Spider-Man print to benefit Medors. PR below:

Artist Josh Medors has been battling a rare form of spinal column cancer for several years. The Hero Initiative has been helping him for some time, and now they are teaming up with Marvel for a special Spider-Man print to benefit Medors. PR below:

Illustrator/animator/visual storyteller Shaun Tan gets profiled in the Sunday NY Times Magazine, the traditional anointing of a major creative figure.

Calvin and Hobbes creator Bill Watterson has a been a notorious recluse for 16 years or so; however, he has broken his visual silence for a pretty worthy cause, Michael Cavna reports. Watterson has donated a painting -- yes a painting -- of Richard Thompson's Petey character from Cul-de-Sac to a Parkinson's disease benefit. (Thompson suffers from that illness.)

And as we head off to the weekend....via Tyler Walpole at The Gutters

When he isn't doing stunning art for comics, Jock has a busy career doing concept art for motion pictures as well. He's just released some concept art/posters for HANNA, the well-reviewed film starring Saoirse Ronan as a 16-year-old trained assassin.

It is official! Pascal Girard, you have EQUALED Brandon Graham and Vanessa Davis in the TCJ Cartoonist Diaries derby. In fact this feature is so awesome it needs to stop right now so people can remember how cool it was and what might have been.

This week's National Review has a cover of Obama as Captain America by Roman Genn. Sadly a larger image isn't available to us non-subscribers. It isn't as funny as the KICK-ASS cover from last year, but it is funny.

The Comics Journal's new cartoonist diary features Pascal Girard's MoCCA journal and we're already severely flattered. In case anyone is wondering, Pascal, you're #1!

20 Amazingly Integrated Comic Book Logo Illustrations via Comics Alliance

This year's edition of the compendium is guest-edited by Alison Bechdel, with series editors Jessica Abel and Matt Madden.

Homage! Mike Henderson mashes up some well known cartoon characters and the classic X-MEN #141 storyline for a piece he calls...Days of Future Pixar. There's a lot of other tasty stuff at Henderson's blog if you poke around a bit.