Category: Comics
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Blown Covers
Even those who are not regular readers of the magazine often find great pleasure and fascination with the New Yorker’s witty, clever, and often beautifully drawn and painted covers. New Yorker covers are such a recognizable and distinct format, and have so much history of superb work by terrific artists, that they are practically an…
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Becky Cloonan
Becky Cloonan is an American comics artist and writer known for her recent unique take on Conan the Barbarian with writer Brian Wood, as well as her own self-published titles and other work for Dark Horse, Vertigo, Marvel and other publishers. Cloonan started out self-publishing her own mini comics and then moved into more mainstream…
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John Severin 1921-2012
John Severin was an excellent and underappreciated comics artist whose career spanned a good part of the 20th century and into the 21st. Severin was prolific during his long career, and though he never developed the devoted following of flashier artists (except among a discerning few), he produced consistently high-level work for a variety of…
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Stop PIPA and SOPA
If you stopped by Lines and Colors yesterday, January 18, you may have noticed that Lines and Colors had gone dark, along with a significant number of other sites, in protest, and to raise awareness of the “anti-piracy” internet censorship bills looming in the U.S. Congress. If you didn’t happen to stop by yesterday, but…
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The 50 best comic covers of 2011 on Robot 6
Kevin Melrose, writing on the excellent comics blog Robot 6, part of the Comic Book Resources site, at the end of the year presents his list of the 50 best comic book covers of the year. Comic book covers occupy a particularly fascinating niche in publishing, inheriting some of the lurid, lure you in with…
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Boulet (Gilles Roussel)
Boulet (nom de plume of Gilles Roussel) is a French comics artist, largely unknown in the US, but familiar in Europe for his work in the magazine Tchô! and on series like Raghnarok, Miya and Womoks. Since 2004, Boulet has been one of the premiere comic strip bloggers, telling of his experiences, work and general…