Tag: Art
31 Days of Halloween: Misc.
MORE art that folks sent to us!
Via David Quinn
Via TwoMorrows
Via a fellow whose name we lost.
When authors draw: Should Margaret Atwood have designed the new Wonder Woman costume?
Based on what she came up with for one of her Twitter followers, probably. These are pretty good character designs!
When authors draw: Dave Eggers
Literary icon, comics admirer, and Bay Area resident Dave Eggers was hired to go to the World Series and draw what he found. The results are no threat to Ben Katchor, but pleasing enough.
31 Days of Halloween: David B.
Robot 6 previews THE LITTLEST PIRATE KING by David B., due any day from Fantagraphics, and dealing with...pirate zombies. Oh yeah. It's based on a short story by Pierre Mac Orlan.
31 Days of Halloween BONUS: The Walking Dead via Secret Headquarters
It's Halloween Week AND Walking Dead Week and this is freaking radical: special limited edition artwork by four indie art stars, available at Secret Headquarters in LA.
Thought cloud: E.C. Segar and rent parties
Times are tough, people. Several folks in our comics community can't pay the rent this month and are raising funds via selling cool things. Help them out if you see fit.
Vukojevich repanels Bell Comicumentary
Repaneled is a newish blog that recreates classic comics panels in new art styles. Up today:
Anthony Vukojevich's reimagination of a key panel from Gabrielle Bell's San Diego Comic-Con Comicumentary.
Rich French people don't like Murakami
If we could fly, we'd blast over to Versailles to see the spectacular show by Japanese pop artist Takashi Murakami currently housed there. The opulent palace built by French monarch Louis XIV (The Sun King) is perfectly complemented by the extravagant work by the great Murakami, who has worked with capitalist icons like Louis Vuitton in the past and whose work often engages with materialism. However, Prince Sixte-Henri de Bourbon-Parme, a descendant of Louis XIV, feels the show is slumming for the historical landmark.
RIP: Leo Cullum
One of The New Yorker's most iconic cartoonists, Leo Cullum has passed away at age 68. The NY Times obituary has an associated slide show, and proves that some New Yorker cartoons will actually make you laugh out loud.




