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Month: January 2008

  • High Moon

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    When I last wrote about Zuda Comics, DC Comics’ recent venture into webcomics, I pointed out two of the new webcomics that I thought were standouts, Bayou and High Moon. Both of them are now running as features, and are prominently promoted on the Zuda Comics home page. High Moon is a horror/western by writer…

  • Gorilla Artfare

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    Gorilla Artfare is a new collective art blog. According to their About page, the group was formed in 2006, and now counts more than 100 members from around the world. The collaborative blog was just launched early in January of 2008 and as of this writing shows posts from about 30 artists. The emphasis seems…

  • Johnnie Scoutten

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    Johnnie Scoutten is a designer and creative director who also paints and draws in a variety of media. I’m not sure if she chooses the medium to suit her subject or whether she chooses the subject for how much fun it will be to render in the medium. I suspect it’s often the latter. The…

  • The Many Faces of Eustace Tilley

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    Had I been on the ball, I would have told you about this earlier, as well as probably entering myself for the fun of it. Every year The New Yorker holds a Eustace Tilley Contest, in which participants get to draw (or paint) their interpretation of the venerable magazine’s upper-crusty top-hatted and monocled iconic character.…

  • Gustav Tenggren in Illustration 21

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    I wrote about Gustav Tenngren back in June. Like his countryman John Bauer, Tenggren was a wonderful and underappreciated Swedish illustrator who worked in the dark Art-Nouveau inspired style more commonly associated with Arthur Rackham, Edmund Dulac and Kay Neilsen. If your only exposure to Tenggren is his later style, as exemplified by his work…

  • Amulet, Book One: The Stonekeeper

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    Kazu Kibuishi, who I have mentioned before, both in reference to his wonderful online comic Copper (also here), and as the primary force behind the Flight comics anthologies, has been hard at work for the last two years on a graphic novel project that has finally been released. Amulet, Book One: The Stonekeeper is the…