Month: January 2006
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Enki Bilal
Enki Bilal is one of the major figures in European comic art. Bilal was born in Yugoslavia (now Serbia), but has spent most of his life in France. His comics albums (what we misname here as “graphic novels”), are among the most popular and most respected in Europe. He sometimes writes his own stories and…
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Nosepilot (Alexandru Sacul)
Nosepilot is a diversion: a Flash animation in which charmingly simple vector drawings morph and change and blend one into the other in a loose, not-quite-a-story sequence set to music. I think Nosepilot has been on the web in one form or another for at least 8 or 9 years, and has been immensely popular…
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sparth construct (Nicolas Bouvier)
Nicolas Bouvier, known as Sparth, is a concept designer for high-end games, and also illustrates book covers. Born in France and now residing in Texas, Sparth has done concept art for games like Cold Fear and Prince of Persia – Warrior Within and illustrated book covers for authors like Robert Heinlein, Frank Herbert and Neil…
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M.C. Escher
M.C. Escher’s visions of strange worlds, impossible objects, and incredible tesselations form an extraordinary bridge between art and mathematics. Critics often revile Escher and try to dismiss him as a creator of “decorative patterns” and “visual tricks”; and of course, he can’t possibly be a great artist because he’s (ugh!) popular with the (gasp!) masses!…
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Frank Cho (Liberty Meadows)
Frank Cho is a comics artist and illustrator best known as the creator of the Liberty Meadows newspaper comic strip, one of the best drawn syndicated strips in recent years. Cho’s wonderfully precise pen and ink work shows the influence of great pen and ink illustrators like Gibson, Cole and Booth and comics artists like…
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John Sibbick
I’ll say right off that I just love dinosaur art: beautiful paintings and drawings of fantastic animals that actually existed. Wonderful. I loved it when I was a kid and I love it now. (I have my own book of Dinosaur Cartoons, in fact.) Nothing like a nice colorful dinosaur picture to start out your…