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Category: Comics

  • Jennifer Hom

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    Originally from New York, Jennifer Hom studied illustration at the Rhode Island School of Design. She now resides in San Francisco and works as an illustrator for Google, where she has created the images for a number of Google Doodles, including the wonderful recent tribute to Winsor McCay’s Little Nemo in Slumberland that I mentioned…

  • Little Nemo in Google Land

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    Google is celebrating the 107th anniversary of the debut of Winsor McCay’s comics masterpiece, Little Nemo in Slumberland with a wonderfully done interactive tribute on the Google landing page at Google.com. (Click on the small downward pointing arrow below the image on the Google page to advance.) This will, of course, be replaced tomorrow, but…

  • Jacob Wyatt

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    Jacob (Jake) Wyatt is a comics artist and animator who came to my attention by way of his beautiful short animation, Metro, which was done while he was a student (top three images above, plus promo, 4th down). Metro is about a young girl, a subway, a fox and… other things. It’s simply but very…

  • Joe Kubert (1926-2012)

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    Joe Kubert was an American comic book artist and a major figure in the history of American comics. Kubert is best known for his work for DC Comics that included definitive versions of characters like Sgt. Rock and Hawkman, as well as an interpretation of Tarzan for Dark Horse. He also created his own characters…

  • Moebius drawing videos

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    In preparation for the exposition Moebius Trans-Forme at the Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art in Paris in 2010-2011, illustrator, comics artist and concept artist extraordinaire Jean Giraud, AKA Moebius, was filmed doing series of short drawings using digital painting software and a graphics tablet. The videos, along with other related videos, are available on DailyMotion,…

  • Koren Shadmi

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    Koren Shadmi is an illustrator and comics artist whose clients include The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Mother Jones, BusinessWeek, the Village Voice, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Wired, Spin and Random House, among others. Shadmi is originally from Israel; he moved to New York to study at the School of Visual…