Category: Comics
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Eye Candy for Today: Hal Foster Prince Valiant comics panel
I place comics artist Hal Foster, creator, author and artist of the early to mid 20th century Prince Valiant newspaper comic strip, among the greatest pen and ink artists of the last two centuries The Prince Valiant strip in its heyday was given a full comics section page. Here, in a single panel from a…
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Eye Candy for Today: Jean-Pierre Gibrat comics panel
Quai de Valmy, Flight of the Raven, Jean-Pierre Gibrat; ink, watercolor and gouache on paper; roughly 25 x 20 inches ( 65 x 51 cm). Link is to listing on Christie’s auction, where the original art sold for almost 44,000 Euros (roughly $46,000). The listing desctiption is in Franch; (Google Translate to English here). This…
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Eye Candy for Today: Hal Foster Prince Valiant strip
A beautiful Hal Foster 1939 Prince Valiant Sunday newspaper comic strip from the glory days of newspaper adventure comics. This is a photo of the original art. It would have been printed in color as a full newspaper page, at a time when newspapers were much larger than the ridiculous size they’ve been reduced to…
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Free Comic Book Day – May 6, 2023
Tomorrow, May 6 is Free Comic Book Day 2023. Stop by your friendly neighborhood comic book shop, who will be even friendlier than usual, to see what’s happening in comics and pick one more (depending on the shop) free comic books created by publishers just for the occasion. The shops will often have special deals,…
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Alfonso Font
Alfonso Font is a Spanish comiics artist and illustrator. He has worked o a number of comics projects with other creators, as well as on his oen self-penned stories, Taxi, Clarke & Kubrick and Prisoner of the Stars. Font’s drawing style is a delightful combination of solid draftsmanship and loose gesture ink rendering — given…