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Category: Comics

  • Massimo Carnevale movie portraits

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    As I reported back in 2011, Italian illustrator and comics artist Massimo Carnevale has for some time been posting to his blog, Sketches’natched, a series of his interpretations of various movies (and occasionally tv series). These are apparently done for fun, and it’s fascinating how he pics elements from the movies that, while characteristic of…

  • Mike Bear

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    Mike Bear is a concept artist, illustrator and comics artist. His clients include Rockstar Games, Hasbro, Devil’s Due Publishing, Royal Elastics, Lolapps, Inc., Popcap, and EA. Bear’s sketchblog includes some examples of his professional work but more often works in progress, personal flights of fancy, sketches, life drawings, and other graphic meanderings — a visual…

  • Jake Parker (update)

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    Jake Parker (no relation to your correspondent) is an illustrator, comics artist and visual development artist based in Utah. His visual development credits include work on Rio, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, Horton Hears a Who and Titan A.E. He is familiar to many as the author and artist of the Missile Mouse all…

  • The Art of Illustration, PBS Off Book

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    The Art of Illustration is a 7 minute video feature that includes a (very) brief history of illustration from moderator Steve Guarnaccia, and short interviews with illustrators and comics artists Yuko Shimizu, Sean Murphy and Molly Crabapple (above, top to bottom). It is one episode of the continuing PBS web video series Off Book (also…

  • New improved blog list (well, updated anyway)

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    In the left hand column of this blog, about halfway down, under the long lists of categories and the longer list of archives, is a list of links under the heading “Relevant Blogs”. This has long been ignored, both unduly so by myself, and perhaps rightly so by those who have clicked on many of…

  • Nicolas Delort

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    Nicolas Delort, a freelance illustrator based in Paris, creates wonderfully textural pen & ink (on scratchboard) illustrations that take inspiration from greats like Franklin Booth and Gustav Doré — with perhaps a bit of Joseph Clement Coll and Virgil Finlay thrown in for good measure. Delort’s website is essentially just a placeholder at the moment,…