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Month: August 2007

  • Granville Redmond

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    Granville Redmond was born in Philadelphia in the early 1870’s. He became deaf as the result of a bout of scarlet fever when he was around three, and his family moved to California, perhaps prompted by the opportunity afforded their son at the Berkeley School for the Deaf (now the California School for the Deaf).…

  • Vincent Dutrait

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    French illustrator Vincent Dutrait is well known in France and Asia, particularly in fantasy and role playing gaming circles, but not very familiar here in the U.S. Dutrait was born in Provence and now lives and works in Seoul, South Korea. He cites inspiration from great American illustrators of the Brandywine school like Howard Pyle…

  • Barefoot Gen (Keiji Nakazawa)

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    Contrary to popular belief, the horror of nuclear war is not the stuff of science fiction; humanity has already experienced a nuclear war, albeit a limited one; it was called World War II; a war in which nuclear weapons were dropped on cities full of people. Those whose impression of the medium we call “comics”…

  • Registering a domain name

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    How to Display Your Art on the Web: Part 2 [This is part of a series of articles for which the introduction and list of articles is here. If you haven’t read the introduction yet, it would be helpful to read it first.] If you want a professional web presence, suitable for putting on a…

  • Ron Cobb

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    I’ve been wanting to write a post on Ron Cobb for some time now. Cobb is a cartoonist, film production designer and concept artist from Los Angeles, currently living and working in Sydney, Australia. When I went to write a post on Cobb last year, I was disappointed to find that there wasn’t much material…

  • A Little Bit of Leyendecker Greatness

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    Wow. Every once in a while, I get something in my electronic mail box that’s like Christmas in July (well, August, anyway), and what a treat this is! (If you’re short on time, skip the rest of my palaver, go to this page right now and click on the images to see the large versions!)…