Month: June 2006
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A History of Webcomics
Ten years ago, the landscape of comics on the web was a vast empty plain dotted with a few (very few) examples of what we now call webcomics. One of them was my own online comic, Argon Zark!, which was the first long-form comic created specifically for distribution on the web (started in June of…
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Mike Luckovich
Mike Luckovich doesn’t pull his punches. Luckovich has been the editorial cartoonist for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution for 18 years. Sometimes his cartoons earn him vitriol and threatening letters and sometimes they earn him editorial acclaim. They often bring him both simultaneously. When he goes after a public figure he considers foolish, irresponsible or even reprehensible,…
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Tim Hildebrandt 1939-2006
It’s difficult to separate the work of fantasy and science fiction artist Tim Hildebrandt from that of his brother Greg. For the greater part of their careers they have collaborated on most of their work. Word has gone around the web that Tim Hildebrandt died Sunday (June 11) at the age of 67 of complications…
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Joe Ciardiello
Sometimes there is a fine line, if you’ll excuse the expression, between drawing and painting. Illustrator Joe Ciardiello manages to walk on both sides of that line at will by developing his color work out of his black and white drawing style. His black and white drawings have a wonderfully loose and lively line quality,…
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Gobelins Animation Students
France is the largest producer of animation in Europe, and the third largest in the world. Gobelins, L’Ecole De L’image (Gobelins, School of the Image), is a school in Paris that, in addition to studies in Graphic Arts, Multimedia and Photography, offers an apparently superb program in animation. I make that judgement on the basis…
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Sir John Everett Millais
There is a willow grows aslant a brook, That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream. There with fantastic garlands did she come Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples (…) When down her weedy trophies and herself Fell in the weeping brook. Her clothes spread wide, And, mermaid-like, awhile they bore her up;…