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  • Comic Crits, John Bonner

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    Comic Crits are book reviews done by artist John Bonner in the form of one page comic strips. The reviews are often (though certainly not always) of books in the science fiction or fantasy genres, such as Neal Stephenson’s Reamde (above top), and The year’s Best Science Fiction 28, edited by Gardner Dozois (above, bottom).…

  • Rajesh Sawant

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    Rajesh Sawant is a painter based in the city of Nasik, near the western coast of India. His work is known to Americans primarily through art competitions from RayMar Art and Canvoo, and exposure in magazines like International Artist. Sawant works in acrylic and watercolor. His primary subjects are portraits and townscapes. In both, he…

  • Tomasz Maronski

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    Tomasz Maronski is a Polish fantasy artist who started in traditional media, primarily oil, but after 10 years decided to move to digital painting. Working primarily in Corel Photo-paint, Maronski creates richly textured fantasy landscapes, lush with fantastical forms that seem to take inspiration partly from biological sources and partly from Surrealist masters of textural…

  • Howard Pyle: American Master Rediscovered

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    In a letter to his brother Theo in 1882, Vincent van Gogh wrote: “Do you know an American periodical called Harper’s Monthly Magazine? – there are marvellous sketches in it. I don’t know it very well, I’ve only seen six months of it and have only 3 issues myself, but there are things in it…

  • Drawing the Head and Hands, Andrew Loomis

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    in the 1940’s well known illustrator and art instructor Andrew Loomis wrote a series of drawing books that have become standards in the field of art instruction, prized by generations of illustrators, comic book artists, concept artists, character designers and others, particularly those who must “invent” the human form without constant recourse to a model.…

  • Claude Verlinde

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    Claude Verlinde is a French painter who works in the vein of “fantastic realism”, sometimes called “magic realism”, and his work shows the lineage of fantastical art from Bruegel and Bosch to the Surrealists and contemporary magic realists. I would also suspect that a number of the Surrealists, and certainly contemporary magic realists, were influenced…