Month: October 2006
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Tony Auth
People who enjoy reading the days’ editorial cartoon feel lucky if they live in a city where the editorial cartoonist in the major paper is one they like. I’m fortunate to live in the Philadelphia area where we have two (count ’em, two) terrific cartoonists that I like: Tony Auth, in the Philadelphia Inquirer, and…
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John Wallin Liberto
John Wallin Liberto is a matte painter and concept artist based in Sweden who works in the film and gaming industries. He has worked films such as Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban , Tim Burton’s Big Fish, Riddick and Alien Vs Predator, done video concept art for the Shania Twain “Gonna Getcha Good”…
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Cali Rezo
Cali Rezo is a French artist who works digitally in Photoshop. She concentrates largely on faces, either direct portraits, or somewhat stylized portraits in which she sometimes plays with drawing the eyes larger than normal, giving the faces, particularly those of children, a doll-like effect. She will also often incorporate a graphic background rather than…
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James Bama
I first became impressed with the work of James Bama when I encountered his dramatic covers for the paperback versions of the Doc Savage pulp novels. (Doc Savage was an interesting pulp character that I think influenced modern superheroes in a big way, i.e. Superman = Doc Savage + Flash Gordon, and Batman = The…
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Richard Dadd
Writers, and often the public, like to romanticize the connection between madness and art. From the emotional anguish of van Gogh to the physical violence of Caravaggio, there is a notion of the artist going to the brink, and over, and returning with visions from the other side that would be inaccessible to the normal…
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Line Rider
Did you ever find yourself doodling and daydreaming that a line you were drawing was something physical, like a hill you could slide down? Perhaps you found yourself imagining that the line would become reality, á la Harold and the Purple Crayon, and you could roll or slide away from whatever it was that you…