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Category: Comics

  • Peanuts turns 60

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    Peanuts, the iconic comic strip with a title its author hated, began 60 years ago today on October 2nd, 1950. The name was tacked on by the syndicate, arguing that the name Charles Schultz wanted, “L’il Folks”, was too close to the names of other current strips, and downplaying the viability of his subsequent suggestion,…

  • Al Williamson Archives

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    It’s a fairly common practice among comics artists to publish “sketchbooks”, sometimes literally that, sometimes collections of more finished drawings. In them we can often see the artist at play, doing preliminary sketches for art from stories with which we’re familiar, indulging in imaginative flights of fancy, doodling, practicing and learning. Rarely do we get…

  • Jeremy Bastian

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    I just came across Jeremy Bastian this morning in Cory Doctrow’s post on BoingBoing about a commissioned drawing he did: an extravagantly detailed homage to Winsor McCay’s Little Nemo (see my posts on Winsor McCay, and here). The owner of the drawing, Ben Friedman, has been kind enough to share it with us by posting…

  • Sketch Theatre

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    Sketch Theatre collects step-through demonstration videos of artists from comics, film and game design, animation and related fields. Created by Alex Alvarez, founder and director of the Gnomon School of Visual Effects and the Gnomon Workshop, and produced by Lily Feliciano, Sketch Theater allows artists in these fields to give quick instructional demonstrations that pass…

  • Al Williamson 1931-2010

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    I’m sorry to report that Al Williamson, one of the greats of 20th Century comics art and a personal favorite of mine, died on Sunday at the age of 79. For more see my posts on Al Williamson and Al Williamson’s Flash Gordon: A Lifelong Vision of the Heroic. [Via io9 and CBR]

  • François Baranger

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    François Baranger is a French concept artist, illustrator and comics artist. He has done concept design for both gaming and film, and his film credits include Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, parts I and II, and Prince of Persia, though you won’t yet find art from those films in his online portfolio, as they…