Author: cparker
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Boulet (Gilles Roussel)
Boulet (nom de plume of Gilles Roussel) is a French comics artist, largely unknown in the US, but familiar in Europe for his work in the magazine Tchô! and on series like Raghnarok, Miya and Womoks. Since 2004, Boulet has been one of the premiere comic strip bloggers, telling of his experiences, work and general…
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Claude Raguet Hirst
Claude (born Claudine) Raguet Hirst was a beautifully skilled still life painter active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Her intimate, strikingly rendered paintings are considered to be in the American “trompe l’oeil” (fools the eye) style, a genre in which she was the pioneering woman artist. Though she started her career painting…
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Dermot Power (update)
Dermot Power is a concept designer and visual development artist with an impressive list of credits in feature films like Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones, Batman Begins, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, V for Vendetta and three of the Harry Potter films, as well as high-end gaming projects like Bioshock 2. Since…
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Scott Tallman Powers
Originally from Alabama and now based in Chicago, Scott Tallman Powers works both on location and in the studio, painting landscape subjects as well as figurative works. At times he combines both elements in paintings evocative of his travels to China, Guatemala, Mexico, Morocco and other countries. These more complex figurative compositions frequently have something…
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Ronald Searle, 1920-2011
Perhaps more than any other art form, cartoons can serve to foment dissent, arouse ire at injustice, mock the powers that be and shake up the status quo. Which brings us to the brilliant cartoonist Ronald Searle, who died December 30, 2011 at the age of 91. I’ve listed some obits below, along with links…
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Kiah Kiean
Kiah Kiean is an architect, designer and artist. He has a loose, gestural sketching style with which he renders scenes of his native Penang, Malaysia, as well as townscapes and cityscapes from his travels. Kiean works in ink, wash, graphite and watercolor. He posts images of his sketches on his artblog and Flicker stream and…