Author: cparker
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Arthur Adams
Art Adams first grabbed the attention of comic art fans with his work on the Marvel Comics’ mini-series Long Shot in the mid-80’s. He went on to work on major titles like X-Men and Fantastic Four for Marvel, as well as numerous titles for the other major American comic book publishers. In particular, he became…
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Robert F. Walters
Scientific illustration is sometimes thought of as mundane, but there is an area where it crosses over into subject matter that is more dramatic, bizarre and wild than the most fevered dreams of Surrealist painters, fantasy illustrators or movie concept artists, namely paleo art. Dinosaurs can capture our imagination like few other aspects of the…
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Dorothea Tanning
Dorothea Tanning was a librarian from Galesburg, Illinois who is now the oldest surviving member of the circle of Surrealist painters that was centered in Paris in the mid-20th Century. Tanning moved from Galesburg to Chicago at the age of 20, and studied painting by “looking at paintings in museums”, supplemented with some evening courses…
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Gerry Mooney
Back in the mid to late 90’s, when the webcomics landscape looked more like an empty plain dotted with tiny houses than today’s bustling metropolis, one of those houses was an online comic called Bugbots: The Mansect Rebellion. Created by husband and wife team Gerry and Viki Mooney, the strip had a fun, brash, 60’s…
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Jennifer McChristian
Since the trans-continental railroad was completed in 1869, California’s warm climate, abundant sunshine and varied landscape has attracted plein air painters. (See my post on Granville Redmond.) Jennifer McChristian came from Montreal, Canada, where she was born and began her study of art, moved to California, and received her BFA from Otis Art Institute (now…
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Sim-r (Simon Rodgers) (update)
When I first wrote about Simon Rodgers about a year ago, I pointed out that I knew almost noting about him, except that he is a concept artist working in the film industry, who likes to work and sketch digitally. His eerie and dramatic landscapes, imaginative environments, mysterious caverns and enigmatic structures are rendered with…