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Category: Comics

  • Recipe Comix

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    Back in 2010 I reported on They Draw and Cook, a project in which illustrators and other artists contribute recipes in the form of illustrations. In something of a variation on that idea, food site Saveur has been running Recipe Comix, a series in which they have asked a number of comics artists to contribute…

  • The Hotel Fred (Roger Langridge)

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    Roger Langridge is a comics artist living in the UK. He has several stylistic approaches, all of them idiosyncratic, all of them wonderful. His styles show influences from early 20th century newspaper comics artists like Cliff Sterrett, Billy DeBeck and Frank Willard to more modern artists like Will Elder, various suspects from 2000A.D, and other…

  • Eye Candy Extra: Hendrix by Moebius

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    An alternate Jimi Hendrix album cover by Jean Giraud (Moebius), who was fascinated with Hendrix and portrayed him multiple times. Hendrix would have been 70 today. That makes me feel weird for some reason, but I can’t remember why…

  • All Over Coffee on The Rumpus

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    First of all, if you’re not familiar with Paul Madonna’s wonderful All Over Coffee, you may want to read my previous article on All Over Coffee, or my subsequent post on the second collection, Everything is its own reward, in which I struggle to find sufficient superlatives to describe the feature. Though ostensibly classified as…

  • Trail of Steel – 1441 A.D., Marcos Mateu-Mestre

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    The link between movies and comics is a strong one. Even without the obvious bridge of their wonderful merging in animation, they share numerous qualities. Both are visual storytelling mediums, and share a common concern with establishing shots, close-ups, framing a scene, conveying the spatial relationship of characters one to the other and other elements…

  • Alex Ross at NRM

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    Alex Ross, who I profiled briefly in 2005, is an American comics artist and illustrator known for his work in the “fully painted” style of comics art. Ross has been one of the foremost proponents of this style, in which the traditional outline and color approach associated with comics is replaced by fully rendered, painted…