Month: February 2007
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Glen Orbik
Somewhere there is a place where the dark corridors and smoke filled rooms of pulp noir crime fiction meet the cape filled skies of comic book super heroes. While there are a number of illustrators and comic book artists who regularly visit that intersection (Jim Steranko comes to mind), most are transients. Glen Orbik is…
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Michael Phipps
I’m going to make an assumption about this artist, simply because I don’t know much about him, but I do know a couple of things. The assumption I’m making is that he is relatively young and just beginning his career. The reason I might assume this is because the list of credits on his web…
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Daryl Cagle’s Professional Cartoonist Index
After yesterday’s rant I think I need some cartoons to lighten up, but I’m still feeling snarky enough to want some cartoons with bite, so lets head on over, as I often do, to Daryl Cagle’s Professional Cartoonist Index. For many years now, Cagle has had a presence on the web showcasing the work of…
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Christian Pearce
King Kong was on HBO last night, the lavish 2005 Peter Jackson version, not the 1933 classic or the unbelievably bad remake from 1976. (A King Kong remake without dinosaurs? What were they thinking?) Anyway, watching the recent version was a good reason to take another look through The World of Kong, A Natural History…
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Jan van Eyck
15th Century painter Jan van Eyck was the first great master of oil painting, though he was not, as was commonly believed, the originator of the practice of oil painting. When oil based paint was first formulated it was used for practical or craft-like applications on objects, because it was more durable in that role…