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DC Icons It's the cover artwork for Jim Lee's new book, ICONS: The DC Comics & WildStorm Art of Jim Lee. I always enjoy Lee's artwork; especially his pencils, which I find have more depth and texture then when his work has been inked and colored.  But when did Batman become the focal point of the DC Big Three? When an artist is representing the DC Trinity of Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman, Superman always - always - gets the choice position. Is it a reflection of Batman's raised marketing value post The Dark Knight movie? Maybe. But as a Batman fan I don't care. I like seeing him out front and center. posted by Brendan | 4:30 PM | permanent link
Andy Kuhn I can't remember reading any comics draw by Andy Kuhn since I enjoyed The Annotated Mantooth years and years ago. But Kuhn is one of the artists contributing to the Comic Twart blog and he is the artist whose work I am digging the most week in and week out. This week he turns in a great version of the Black Beetle.  posted by Brendan | 1:11 PM | permanent link
Dick Tracy by Joe Staton Joe Staton is one of the many artists who have contributed work for a charity art auction taking place this month. Based on his rendering of Dick Tracy, I would love to see a Dick Tracy comic handled by Staton.  Then again, anything would be an improvement to the insufferable pencilings of Dick Locher. Labels: art, comic strips, Rant posted by Brendan | 4:56 PM | permanent link
Batman by Ted Naifeh I'm totally digging Ted Naifeh's sketches of Batman and related characters. Not sure if he's trying to audition for DC in a plan for them to throw a Batman story his way, but I enjoy the perks of getting to see how he sees the character.  Labels: art, Batman, Comics, DC posted by Brendan | 7:21 PM | permanent link
Zorro by Chris Samnee A group of comic book artists launched a blog, Comic Twart, this week based around this basic premise: one member of the group will suggest a character to draw and then everyone else has to draw and post there artwork. There is a lot of great artistic talent involved and I'm kinda excited to see what sort of work we see over the next few weeks. The inaugural subject is Zorro. I found Chris Samnee's entry to be my favorite.  Just working with blacks and whites, his Zorro artwork has an level of energy that I can't remember since Frank Miller's first Sin City story. I pretty much liked all the Zorro entries, by Samnee's stood out. posted by Brendan | 5:23 PM | permanent link
Bent Objects Terry Border is a very creative man with a deliciously off-center sense of humor. I want a print of one of these photos for myself.  posted by Brendan | 8:30 AM | permanent link
Movies in Red and Black A designer took 8 of his favorite films and created new posters for the movies using only the colors red, white and black. I think the Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade one is great.  posted by Brendan | 2:05 PM | permanent link
Sherlock Holmes and Moriarty Kevin Huizenga drew these fictional nemeses for the Famous Fictional Villains show in St. Louis.  posted by Brendan | 5:01 PM | permanent link
iPhone Art This is cool. Artist Jorge Colombo produces some amazing looking art using just his iPhone.  posted by Brendan | 12:57 PM | permanent link
Edible Art Somebody got the idea of sticking un-cooked spaghetti into hot dogs and then boiling the two together. The results look a bit Lovecraftian if you ask me.  As fun as it may seem, I don't know if Heather and I could get our kids to eat this. I think they might find it too weird to eat. posted by Brendan | 8:27 AM | permanent link
Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez is the Man  I know I've mentioned it here a number of different times on this blog - comic artist Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez is one of the all-time greatest comic book artists ever. There is nothing that the man cannot draw, and what he does draw has a classic elegance that few other artists can achieve.While clearing out some bookmarks I rediscovered this page - a smorgasbord of Garcia-Lopez artwork. I could spend all day pouring over the artwork on that page. There is so much to see and enjoy. There can never be too much Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez art. posted by Brendan | 8:32 AM | permanent link
Ladr�nn's Commissoner Jim Gordon Mexican artist Ladr�nn is contributing cover art to some of the one-shots the DC is publishing surrounding the next Batman story event "Battle for the Cowl." I'm a fan of Ladr�nn's work, particularly the work he's done on the Hip Flask series. I think his cover for Batman: Battle for the Cowl - Commissioner Gordon is fantastic. It captures much of what I love about the character of Jim Gordon just in body language - tough, determined, principled, uncompromising.  Labels: art, Batman, Comics, Illustration posted by Brendan | 8:50 AM | permanent link
Flying Cars and All That Don't know where this image originally comes from, but I think it's a great.  I especially love the Imperial Transport from Star Wars that's delivering pizzas down in the lower right corner. [found] posted by Brendan | 6:30 PM | permanent link
Nick Brandt Wildlife Photography I think Nick Brandt's photography can be summed up in one word: "breathtaking"  And that's just based on the versions I see on his website. I can only image what it would be like to view his work close up.posted by Brendan | 10:32 PM | permanent link
LIFE on Google I've been very busy at work and at home, leaving me little time to put together even mildly interesting posts. Hopefully as this project enters it's final stage, things will open up and I won't be working quite so much and can spend more time writing. In the meantime, I found this bit of news so interesting that I couldn't not post about it. LIFE magazine is working with Google to make all of their photographs available online, and they have a fair amount of the images ready to be searched on.  The catalog of photographs include those that were published in the magazine, and plenty that never made their way into the magazine. I've had fun just randomly searching through the catalog of photos. Tons of great images and photographs. posted by Brendan | 10:54 PM | permanent link
Painting With a Video Game I think it is wonderful how the Internet has given people greater access to artists around the world - and also provided a way for those artists to share how they create their art. Take for example, Sean Phillips. I have been a fan of his art since seeing his work on Sleeper, and have followed him ever since. On his blog he is always providing peek at works-in-progress or sharing sample artwork, and I love getting that inside view of the artist.  I was catching up with posts on hos blog the other day and found this piece (at right) from the middle of October. It seemed like a rather simple - but good - painting of a nude until I read that he had done the painting on his Nintendo DS.The same little machine that my son Ian plays Pokemon and Indiana Jones on Phillips used to create a piece of art. It blew my mind. What's even more remarkable is the video he posted showing him creating this piece on his DS. The video is time-lapsed, so it plays quickly, but I can't help but marvel at how he is able to pull together little swatches and blobs of color into the final piece of art. Even without knowing that he was painting this on a Nintendo DS, the ability to start with blocks of color and then layer and shade your way to picture of something is a skill I am envious of. I'd post the video of Sean painting on the DS if I could. If you want to see it you'll have to go to his website. Labels: art, Comics, Illustration posted by Brendan | 3:14 PM | permanent link
Square of Sky For 36 days in a row, Canadian designer Michael Surtees has been taking a photo of the same part of sky outside of his New York apartment. He�s been uploading the individual images to Flickr. When he groups them all together in their own set they create this image � which I find very soothing.  Labels: art posted by Brendan | 10:21 PM | permanent link |
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